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>I’m sure those guys get a little financial consideration for advising their students on good stables to join
Supposedly, there are millions of dollars involved. Amateur/student sumo is a thicket of backdoor politics and crazy connections bullshit if you try to reckon with the details. Even sumoforum only has ~2 guys who follow the politics because of how deep in the weeds any of it is.
Pic is from when Kisenosato landed Onosato in a bidding war, as I guess an attempt to map out just the relevant connections?