[OutsiderFan]

Boosters have gained the right to use their money to influence who plays for their school of choice in a way they never could before. There is simply no way in hell they are giving that right up. None. Just like Ukraine isn't giving up its sovereignty and women aren't giving up their right to privacy.

OF, I think it is very, very hard to justify the idea boosters had anything at all to do with the Supreme Court declaring that the NCAA couldn't restrain trade. Yes, they boosters perhaps had a serendipity that increase their power, but the idea they are organized and wedded to that concept is not in evidence. It was not and is not an organized movement with a specific goal. Changing the NIL system yet again is not likely to change that. No comparison at all to the other two groups you cite.

When did I say boosters had anything to do with the SCOTUS decision? I said that given the NCAA waved the white flag on NIL (after the SCOTUS ruling), boosters gained a lot more power (rights) to influence the acquisition of talent for their team of choice and they are not giving it up.

I used examples of others not giving up things and rights as evidence of this to drive home the point. It isn't happening.

Getting Congress involved is a terrible idea. Schools are basically asking lawmakers to write a law that is unconstitutional, so they can exploit under paid labor. It's just not going to happen. 

Here's a metaphor for schools trying to get control over boosters who now are feeling their agency to influence where the talent goes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdpG8JslTCA

What can happen is that the market for talent figures itself out. The schools having a fit over how NIL money can't be used as pay for play, is just that, a fit, like a baby crying because it can't stand that it can't get what it wants. The NCAA can limit transfers as we discussed, but it's never, ever putting the NIL money as pay for play genie back in the bottle. It has no mechanism to do so and Congress isn't going to change this reality.

[OutsiderFan]

Boosters have gained the right to use their money to influence who plays for their school of choice in a way they never could before. There is simply no way in hell they are giving that right up. None. Just like Ukraine isn't giving up its sovereignty and women aren't giving up their right to privacy.

OF, I think it is very, very hard to justify the idea boosters had anything at all to do with the Supreme Court declaring that the NCAA couldn't restrain trade. Yes, they boosters perhaps had a serendipity that increase their power, but the idea they are organized and wedded to that concept is not in evidence. It was not and is not an organized movement with a specific goal. Changing the NIL system yet again is not likely to change that. No comparison at all to the other two groups you cite.

When did I say boosters had anything to do with the SCOTUS decision? I said that given the NCAA waved the white flag on NIL (after the SCOTUS ruling), boosters gained a lot more power (rights) to influence the acquisition of talent for their team of choice and they are not giving it up.

I used examples of others not giving up things and rights as evidence of this to drive home the point. It isn't happening.

Getting Congress involved is a terrible idea. Schools are basically asking lawmakers to write a law that is unconstitutional, so they can exploit under paid labor. It's just not going to happen. 

Here's a metaphor for schools trying to get control over boosters who now are feeling their agency to influence where the talent goes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdpG8JslTCA

What can happen is that the market for talent figures itself out. The schools having a fit over how NIL money can't be used as pay for play, is just that, a fit, like a baby crying because it can't stand that it can't get what it wants. The NCAA can limit transfers as we discussed, but it's never, ever putting the NIL money as pay for play genie back in the bottle. It has no mechanism to do so and Congress isn't going to change this reality.