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that's very true about bagmen.

and it's not an ethical or moral argument, it's a matter of competitive advantage. and i'm fully aware bama will be one of the ones taking the most advantage of a skewed system. i just don't like it, not that it's "wrong".

edit: also fully aware it's not really a level playing field as is, and i'm open to address that.

yup. what happens if the kid blows out his knee and can never play again? 

I mean, I can see why that's good for A&M, but you haven't made a case  for how sitting out a year would be good for the player himself.

It's pretty obvious at this point that the money to be gained above the table dwarfs whatever the bagmen are capable of mustering.  They'll die off simply because they're no longer needed. Their only purpose was to hide payments under the table.  That purpose is now irrelevant.  The paradigm shift is massive.

For example, we know that Cam Newton got around $200,000 of dirty money.  With this NIL deal, even backup offensive linemen at Texas will be getting a minimum of $200,000 if they stay 4 years. 

And again, I'm not arguing this is good for college football.  But there's no going back.

How?  Why?  His current NIL deal is already in danger of drying up, specifically because he's NOT playing football games.  There is no compelling argument here, for sitting out a year in-between transfers.

Yeah... I think you're just making up stuff to worry about.  If something like that ever happens, I'll let you say "I told you so"  but it is way, way down the list of problems and challenges stemming from NIL.