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[QUOTE="0.2 YNdeeR, post: 4255349, member: 8125"]
I agree with most of this.  Obviously, pay-for-play has been an ongoing problem. And parity has all but disappeared in CFB ... the same teams get the top athletes every year and ride them into the CFBPO's. A similarly unbalanced situation is developing in basketball. But as bad as things have been, there is little doubt that NIL cheating - under cover of legislation from SEC/B1G states - now poses the greatest threat that the NCAA amateur model has ever faced.

THe only solution is for NCAA member institutions that value academics to choose their own path: start a new division ... with amateur rules and legitimate educational requirements for athletes. Let the Georgia and 'Bama crazies pay their coaches 10 million, exempt athletes from classes, field legions of "analysts", and coddle bloodthirsty boosters willing to do anything to secure wins. Yuck. NIL could still be permitted in a new division, with appropriate limitations (that no SEC school will agree to), and amateurism might yet see a resurgence. I like our chances.
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