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The NCAA did this to themselves by making college athletics a billion-dollar industry. If they had kept things truly amateur there wouldn't be a need for NIL deals, but they got greedy. There hasn't been amateur college athletics, at least in terms of football and basketball, for decades, just now the players are getting their cut of the profits.
I'm still in favor of allowing schools to do whatever they want so long as they are self-sustaining and take no money from tuition/fees. There would be a super division of big schools, but the bulk of programs would more resemble the financial landscape of the 70s.
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