That is also bullshit. While I definitely share the frustration. NIL was a BS response to blatant hypocrisy and cheating going on before it. College athletics could have went a totally different direction with ethical fair practices instead of bowing at the alter of crony capitalism. I can give a short list right off the top of my head.
1. Guaranteed 3 year scholarships if academic eligibility and general student code of conduct all students.
2. Cap on Adminstrator and Coaches salaries set by NCAA for D1 max by sport and cap by conferences.
3. Free tickets to ALL current students that.
4. All the biggest public universities that carry D1 sport play other in state D1 universities in a non-conference schedule (on a 5 year rotation or more frequent when not in same conference).
5. Only real hardship transfers with scholarship are allowed during the first 2 years.
6. Graduate transfers are walk on only
There a ton of other ideas that could have implemented to really run college sports as a non-profit organization with the revenue generated going back to the bottom line of the university. They did not do that. You can not have a functional complelling competitive league where the teams with most money manipulate the rules of the league, scheduling, and etc. Yes here in Dallas it would be cool if Jerry Jones could create some kind of contract rule that would force Kansas City to trade Dak Prescott for Mahomes. But it would suck for all the bottom 2/3 of the NFL.
Yes, this NIL is a great system if you think buying players should be the key to building successful programs. Recruit well and develop players so they can be bought by another team. Sounds like a fine basis to foster fair competition.
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