I hate it too, but the problem is the colleges holding to the farce that the athletes are amateurs and students first and that college football is just another student activity and not a multi-billion dollar industry. The reality is that college football players create a product that draws in billions of dollars and to date have not been paid for their contribution to the product. Even the House settlement is pretending that revenue sharing is in exchange solely for NIL not labor. The schools will continue to fight to avoid employer obligations, unionization of the athletes, and everything else that highly profitable employers face. If, on paper, they are all amateur "student athletes," then equal treatment is required. If divested as a business, payments can be based on a true profit sharing model meaning football players make a bunch of money while lacrosse players (of either gender) don't because they don't create profit. But I know this is 'murica 2025 so blame the libruls for woke dei something or other.