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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 4672294, member: 338"]
So I haven't been paying full attention, but David Hale's twitter series made it all clear for me.  It's probably been said in one of the convos here but I missed it.  I have wondered, and asked here, why it matters that a school gets $40M in conference revenue vs., say $60M.  What the hell is a school going to do with that extra $20M?  How much extraneous crap can you build to entice 18-year-old football youths?  The facilities arms race has been a smarmy work-around to not being able to pay players directly.  But there has to be a limiting effect, right?  At some point the expenditures have to invite laughter and scrutiny.  What can't you do with $40M, such that you NEED, OHMYGOD I NEED IT, $60M?

Hale's comments laid it out:  the conferences and schools are (1) already defying the rules and using school money to fuel NIL, but more importantly, in fact game-over-ly, they are all preparing for a Supreme Court ruling that schools can pay athletes directly.  At which point the boosters and NIL become chump change, and the networks determine which schools will succeed and which won't.

The sport is dead unless a comprehensive league is formed.  Network money ruined it as it existed, even with the back-channel cheating of old.  And a league?  Meh.  How is a formalized league going to handle NIL on the side?
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