Outgoing Coastal Carolina baseball coach rips NIL system: 'Professional sports would go in the toilet'

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The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers’ baseball season came to an end on Sunday with a 6-5 loss to the High Point Panthers in the Clemson Regional of the NCAA Tournament. 

It also marked the end of a legendary career for head coach Gary Gilmore. He had been at Coastal Carolina since 1996, taking the job after six years with USC Aiken. He had 1,116 wins with the Chanticleers.

As he talked to reporters for potentially the final time, Gilmore took a parting shot at the system behind name, image and likeness (NIL) and how it’s been used in NCAA.

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Coastal Carolina Chanticleers head coach Gary Gilmore, left, and Arizona Wildcats head coach Jay Johnson shake hands before the College World Series championship series game at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 30, 2016. (Bruce Thorson-USA Today Sports)

"If you had a system (in professional sports) where everyone was a free agent every year, do you realize what chaos it would be? (The leagues) would go away," Gilmore said. "You wouldn’t have those sports. If you did, in baseball it would be the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Dodgers, Texas, and the rest of the teams couldn’t compete. They could spend however much money they need to do it. That’s what’s going on right now. It’s not a level playing field. … 

"As much as I’m going to miss the kids, dealing with that mess… The fact that there are teams in college baseball giving $2 million of NIL money away. I mean come on, man. A real system would be they get a little bit of money and they put money in trusts so you don’t have the horror stories you see in the NFL and different places…

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