Badol I think put it best with his cotton comment. The NCAA has been stealing money for years. I think Bill is also correct calling this anarchy even if I disagree that players on balance will experience a degradation in play. It may be for some, but others may get a taste for the money and work even harder for the big NFL bucks. A wash?
The difficulty here is that the NCAA thieves are completely inexperienced in creating or maintaining a system based on fairness rather than thievery. Maybe they can fix it but if they do there will be a lot of turmoil which is only beginning now. Let’s face it, if they basically swept a decade of child rape under the rug so that the Penn State dollars could keep flowing, they will only fix the transfer portal, NIL, etc. if they can measure the loss of money. They can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube and they don’t really know how to create a new tube yet.