Entering his 40th year as a coach, Tulane’s Ron Hunter still is coming to terms with the escalating pay-for-play NIL era of college basketball. He knows it is here to stay. The issue is accepting he has less than a year to work with his players before starting over again with a mostly different roster. “You can coach as hard as you want, but you have to reset every eigh months,” he said Wednesday before conducting a summer practice with nine new players and four holdovers from 2025-26.