The problem is, is the way NIL is going it is just a free for all where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It is just what they have been trying to avoid for a century where big booster buy players. And with the way the transfer portal is a free for all now, it is even worse. So places like Texas, OU, OSU, Bama, can buy players.
This could have been avoided, If at some point they would have set up Athletic scholarships to where that minute amount of spending money they include now, actually was a decent amount. Think of something like a set amount per sport, or set amount per semester, or maybe it is set per school, like it pays based on tuition at said university or something like that.
If they would have given a stipend to players of like 10K per year, on top of room, board, schooling etc. The problem is that comes out of the schools budget, and they fought that with everything they had. So in turn the players fought to get it their own way. And these schools are scrambling to figure out how to make it work now.
Then there might not have been a NIL lawsuit.
To fix what we have now, there needs to be limits placed back on transfers. There needs to be rules placed on NIL. There needs to be limits on NIL amounts. But I am afraid the genie is out of the bottle, they are talking about less restrictions instead of more. Which means the big money schools will continue to distance themselves. The transfer portal will get even more insane. And these NIL deals will just be used like pay to play, buying players of the old days.
