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How do college athletes feel about mental health challenges and NIL? We asked one:

Good morning, and thanks for your continued support of Extra Points.

A few weeks ago, I wrote that Extra Points is making some tweaks to our NIL strategy. Instead of paying athletes to promote Extra Points on Twitter or Instagram, we're focusing on using our NIL budget to help elevate some athlete voices.

It's one thing, after all, for me to call up an AD, or a marketplace CEO, or a brand, a coach, or any number of other Serious Professionals, and ask about some college sports administrative issue. It's another to ask an actual athlete.

So we did!

On today's Going For Two, Bryan and I sat down with Leah Clapper, a gymnast at the University of Florida.

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