First, I never even implied that they shouldn't make money from their name. Second, they aren't making money from their name, in most cases their names mean nothing. If you are just going to pay a kid money to get him to come to your school don't try to blow bullshit up our asses by saying they want their NIL rights - they want them to PLAY. Call it booster cash, pay-to-play, free agency, etc., because no one is paying these kids to be in their commercials or for their likenesses.

Combined with the transfer protocol, small schools are losing players at an incredible pace, which includes players that they took a risk on to develop. And you can say good for the players, but the popularity that college football is built on is having a lot of competitive smaller schools. We are going end up with just be a handful of schools with big boosters paying 300 players on their rosters (because who cares about scholarship limits when players are making more in NIL than what tuition costs). This is essentially how it was before scholarship limits, and college football had a limited audience and was very regional.