NLI and NIL

I want to think about anything (literally anything) besides basketball right now. My friend Brian asked me a question about my National Letter of Intent tweet, I'm on this train from Central PA back to Champaign, I take these train rides so I can just sit here and knock out articles instead of holding a steering wheel, so let's do this, huh?

Here's the tweet he was referencing:

Interesting. Aligns with Coach Bielema's answer last week. If approved:

~Football signing day moves to Wednesday before conference championship games (which is also before the transfer portal opens).
~Portal commits would sign Letter Of Intent
~Summer signing day to be explored https://t.co/Vgd6b5SM7G
— Robert Rosenthal (@ALionEye) February 22, 2024

His question, simplified: "Explain it like I'm five."

OK.