It would be a very high mark to keep me from watching.

But, the trend is making it hard to root for the individuals on the team, as they come and go with ease and break the hierarchy of the traditional coach-player relationships in college sports and below.

That is the real shite side of it all. College sports is built around watching players wait, develop, and truly impact their programs to become legends. Now, it's headed toward "who was that guy that played that one year that made the awesome end zone catch to beat AU?" It kind of sucks.

If I wanted to watch entitled players getting in the faces of their coaches, pouting, and bailing at every time the $$$ is better, I'd watch pro sports.

Feels like we are a couple short years away from college athletes sounding like post-race Nascar drivers thanking their sponsors for 2 minutes to open up every post-game interview.

I have zero issue with NIL as it was intended. I don't like the collectives as it only fosters structured pay for play, and I like the free transfer rules less. The latter is the more pressing thing to address. If collectives are to stay under the current transfer rules, quit calling it a scholarship and make it a 3 year contract with conditions for if coaches change and a buyout to transfer.