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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5295548, member: 12088"] Excellent ‘big picture’ analysis. And, by the way, big picture thinking is a sort of conceptual arbitrage because it can expose imbalances in our usual habits of thought. If you’ll permit me another analogy, and maybe [USER=267]@cferraro04[/USER] will appreciate this one, it’s similar to those martial arts (like [I]bagua zhang[/I]) based on Taoism rather than Buddhism that take advantage of our habitual reliance on social norms of behavior. They teach practitioners to rely on ‘nature’ (more precisely, the Tao) and violate mere conventions when it gives them an advantage. But I digress. You’ve put your finger on the key question: Are students better off? Schools and fans may not like it because it threatens a status quo they’ve gotten used to. We will hear complaints about how the new dispensation is “bad for the game.” But these are empty words compared to the concrete reality of what’s good or bad for students. I’d say every aspect of the rise of NIL and the Portal has represented an improvement in conditions for students, whether considered financially, or in terms of legal rights, or in terms of justice. And the improvement has been genuine even though at first the benefits were hardly distributed evenly across all students. On the flip side, schools and related organizations and coaches haven’t always benefited but that pales in comparison to the interests of the students which all those institutions are supposed to serve in principle. Should I care if the NCAA suffers or even goes bankrupt? I care not. [/QUOTE]

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