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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5008469, member: 488"] At first, yes. It's important for them to string the process out, because too much change, too fast, is risky for any business, particularly one rooted in tradition & nostalgia. This is from the same playbook that they used to phase out amateurism - instead of going directly from amateurism to pay for play, they invited us to a few years of the NIL circus that was never intended to be a long-term solution. Same concept here. They know the photo op with other league commissioners will be important to mitigate the backlash when they introduce the new changes. You accomplish that by buying them out for a short time while making it impossible for them to compete behind the curtains. In ten years when they stop sharing revenue altogether and 60 FBS teams have to scrap their programs, it will seem like the whole thing was organic. [/QUOTE]