re: Is Saban correct about NIL ruining college athletics as we know it?

Overall college athletics maybe, but CFB hasn't truly been an amateur sport for decades...we (and the NCAA) just continued pretending.

It won't be good for parity, thats for sure. Remember the days when tiny religious schools were able to compete with the big state schools in basketball? Those days are likely over. No idea how this will shake out for non-revenue Olympic sports...but some schools will fare better than others, some will have to cut down the number of sports they sponsor I'd imagine.