My view is that NIL is a good thing
As with all good things it can be abused (see Thug U (Miami), Felony State U and Ole Piss as examples) who are over paying (and in at least UF's (and possibly Miami's) case), can't honor the contracts they signed
The portal was a poorly thought out way to get their (the NCAA) asses out of a noose.
Then they timing of portal entries, especially for football make ZERO sense
Then the morons at the NCAA (with zero cojones) compounded the problem by saying that essentially now you can transfer every freaking year, with ZERO consequences
The portal can fill holes (the VOLS did so last year and to some extent this year reasonably effectivly) but as JCVF stated, it is not sustainable (see Ole Piss and Prime Failure)
The moronic NCAA is making decisions that at some point will result in legislation from the total (and complete) morons in Congress that will DESTROY college sports as we know it.
The biggest issue in my opinion is the rampant TAMPERING that is ongoing. How do you combat that?
Tampering is REAL and pervasive. It has cost us at lest 2 players this portal opening (IMO).
BTW, IMO the BIGGEST issue in college sports (football specificaly) is the INCOMPETENT officiating!
I agree with a lot of what is posted here, but I do not think that the NCAA has any alternative regarding players being allowed multiple transfers. There is, unless I misunderstand, a temporary injunction barring the NCAA from blocking those transfers.
As soon as NIL became a thing (again, due to the courts and not the NCAA), the process of limiting transfers was always going to be contested in court. It is really questionable whether you can tell an athlete that he can transfer only once when he might have better NIL opportunities elsewhere. It is akin to telling someone that they can transfer jobs only once without having to sit out a year. It is an anti-trust issue, as I understand it.
We can definitely accuse the NCAA of sitting on their hands for the past 20 years and not anticipating this coming, but in the current situation their hands are likely tied behind their backs.