re: Tired of hearing NIL killed the college game.

NIL won't kill the college game. But the existing infrastructure (toothless NCAA) was not ready for its impact. We're in the Wild West years of NIL still, but it won't last. For starters, colleges (and more importantly, their boosters) are already getting fed up with paying kids millions of dollars to come play football for a year and then transfer elsewhere if there is an extra dollar to be found. Let me be clear: I don't fault these kids. This is life changing money and we'd all likely do the same in their shoes. It's a failure to implement reasonable rules and a failure by schools and conferences to protect themselves.

But look at what the B1G did with its template contracts that restrict portal entry and exclusive NIL rights. They are ahead of the SEC on that front. The Washington QB that just tried to transfer is going to get a real fast lesson in American contract law since Washington is under no legal obligation to enter him into the portal and it owns his NIL rights for the duration of the contract. We're going to see more and more of that as the facade of the "student athlete" disappears and we treat big time college athletics like the money making machine that they are and have been for many years. I also imagine that further refining of the Portal will occur: shorter windows, fewer opportunities to enter, etc.

But for now, it's a clusterfrick.