re: Trev Alberts says A&M will share revenue directly w/athletes $15-$20 mil per year

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I don't think you're reading them correctly.

If you fix the sport by making the players employees, the impetus for boosters or third parties to pay goes down significantly.

Pay the players, make contracts, institute a draft. Then the NIL is only used for actual promotion.

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It only would work if a draft were allowed, and a draft of 17 year old minors by public colleges is never going to be legal.

Even if you somehow got around the fact that these are minors, you get stuck by anti-trust laws. Professional drafts are legal because the player unions for the entire sport exist. That allows collectively bargained agreements witht he leagues that break antitrust laws if the unions weren't in place.

You'd need the existing players to form a national union for colleges, then have that union collectively bargain a deal with the schools/conferences that make it so they can ONLY hire union players in order to force high school prospects to join the union, then have the union agree to a draft/salary cap scenario.

If you believe that's possible, I don't know what to tell you. It will literally never happen.

Schools can decided to pay players, but they have no realistic avenue to take away the players right to choose where they go. And that means that boosters will still be able to pay players to attend the school they want to support.