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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4392669, member: 12088"] It frightens me, too, because I fear for the competitiveness of the game. But change wasn't inevitable because of schools cheating to get star players in the past. That only explains why it doesn't matter as much -- NIL is no worse than that. But it's probably much, MUCH better legally and morally. Change was inevitable, even necessary and long overdue I'd argue, because the previous scheme was immoral, probably illegal, and unconstitutional. It violated the fundamental right to property guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Schools were obviously profiting off (i.e. stealing, conversion is probably the legal term) the property of students in a hundred different ways, and hiding the tawdry fact under the sham ideal of "amateurism." Imagine, any student, whether on financial aid or scholarship, has always been allowed to work outside jobs, make money legally in whatever way they could, but somehow athletes weren't allowed to do this. Working outside jobs was even praised as a sign of industry. But not for kids on athletic scholarships. This fact alone should reveal how corrupt the previous regime was. So, I'm all in favor of NIL. But I don't think it makes sense to allow schools (the malefactors in the previous scenario) to worm their way into it. Sadly, there may not be a way to prevent this. And I'm not willing to return to the old days to protect competitiveness and (gag) amateurism. [/QUOTE]

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