re: Has college football lost its soul?

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The thing that is different is that for maybe for the first time in history the "legal" market is more expensive than the black market it replaced.

I'd bet the cost of paying players above board is around ten times higher than what the costs were paying them under the table. There weren't any guys getting a million dollars under the table. Not even close.

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Couple that with no transfer portal back in the day - once you enrolled somewhere, you were there unless you did something to lose your scholarship.

And from an academic viewpoint (as we still, laughably, call these people student athletes)... it would be nearly impossible to go somewhere your freshman year, then go and get a different, yet full, academic scholarship to another school, and then repeat the process again, before even getting your first degree.

Just wait for someone to start suing schools over the fact that athletes get preferential scholarship mobility over actual students.