With this becoming the Wild West in College Football rules are put in place that for every player signing an NIL that school loses a scholarship and they can only have X amount of players on their roster at one time. The NFL is all about parity. College Football just eats their young.
By penalizing the teams rather than the player, you are still restricting the player’s ability to make an income. Your idea would never even get off the ground legally. Further, those teams are not even directly involved (supposedly), but your restriction on them would adversely and unfairly affect the players ability to make money.
Supposedly, the University is not involved in the NIL transaction. This is purely a transaction between the player and the business. The “collectives” have muddied the water and seem to be within the rules. Once again, the Universities are not involved in the collectives, but boosters are. Teams/coaches are not supposed to be brokering deals.
Schools theoretically have no control/involvement in NIL.
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NIL payments have been going on forever under the table and those that have been profiting, Bama, Ohst, USC etc are going to have to deal with it above board and don't like it. Will it eliminate smaller programs without big backers, yes. But it always did. Get used to it. At least now the actual athletes are profiting and not just the universities.