That's not true at all, it wasn't ESPN either. I think you guys must have missed the origin of this al, came from California and lawyers threatening to sue, first for NIL rights, after they sued via Ed Bannaon the UCLA player and EA Sports/College's and won many years ago. It was another THREAT that made the NCAA try to react, they reacted wrongly, thinking if we allow personal NIL, everything will be OK, no, we had Texas AM use it as a team, which everyone knew this would happen and start an arms race (so to speak) which is why I stated this 3-4 years ago.

All the stupid NCAA leaders had to do was use their "LEVERAGE" against these shady lawyers. The NCAA should have come out in 2019 or 2020 and stated, well as soon as these current scholarships are honored by our NCAA members, there will be no more scholarships, players who want to play CFB will have to fund their own way to college. We can't pass out scholarships anymore because Ambulance chasing lawyers want to sue us.

Of course that makes the Greedy Lawyers the villains and they would then have to come out and say, NO....do not quit giving these athletes (mostly black) scholarships, we promise we will not sue.

Instead the did the dumb thing, play these stupid lawyers games. They have no right to a scholarship, and also no right to gain any of the monies, these colleges spent monies for years building stadium, investing with zero profit, before CFB became profitable in the 1980s. Return on investment is a right. The players get paid what 50 K a year via a free scholarship, free training, free eats, free room and board, its 100 K a year. Twice as much as most common people make.

Instead the prostituted a great game.