re: NIL Bill released

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Yay more government

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The NCAA tried to regulate all of this without government involvement, and did so (with mixed effectiveness) until a few years ago. Anyone with half a brain (and the NCAA at least has that, even if it doesn't seem so at times) knew that NIL would immediately become massive, unregulated pay-for-play, which is why the NCAA prohibited it for so long.

But then government (in the form of the U.S. Supreme Court and various state legislatures, controlled by both parties) screwed it up by striking down the NCAA's regulatory system. This created the new Wild West landscape that virtually everyone involved sees is out-of-whack, with the intersection of NIL and liberalized transfer rules creating de facto free agency--in a league with no "salary cap." Now the only way to rein it in and create some sort of order and competitive balance in college sports is through federal legislation. So government intervention becomes the only solution to a problem that government intervention created in the first place. It's not the first time that has happened...