re: Look cousins the NCAA is a dead man walking. We have to fix this mess ourselves

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You can’t restrict how much someone can make off their name, image and likeness.

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There is a way, but it involves an employment contract. Which is actually the answer here but nobody wants to broach it.

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The thing that will break it apart is when the lesser sports like softball and gymnastics start suing schools because football players are getting so much more money. They will claim discrimination and college sports will become entirely unaffordable overnight.

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But plenty of people across lots of different industries make different average amounts of money. Not sure how that argument would work. And those are private individual deals. I just don't know how you form the argument that a softball player should get a cut of a football running back's NIL deal. Or are you suggesting that the schools somehow are forced to match NIL deals for all athletes across-the-board so they are monetarily level to the highest payment or something? Sounds whacky and ungamely to me. I don't see any judge or jury making any sense of any argument to enforce such a strange and counterintuitive arrangement. In fact, that idea would possibly be illegal in and of itself.

Could you provide some details? Perhaps propose a legal framework and/or an historical example?