F Aire and this does seem confusing to me. I'm wondering if NIL is involved (behind the scenes.) Besides playing time (development!) obviously desired, I sorta can picture they wanted their piece of the large pie so much in the news. If they were told "do something first" and Coach L has no immediate plans for them on the day-to-day roster (10 minutes plus per game) this makes sense, as they may get some NIL$ from a team needing potential talent more than us?
(What I guess im trying to say is that if there were no such things as NIL< they might not have done this?)