The financial "rules" of college football encourage inappropriate behavior and always have. It's

just another way for the school to get back in the player's pocket. The school is just a middleman siphoning off larger percentages from a players worth and work. Always has and always well. No different than a banker. Look at the way NIL works and it encourages schools and agents to "help" kids so they can take a cut and pull the money back just as it was before.