Again, misconceptions rule the day here
Every state is different with NIL rules
Rutgers - won't pay kids in high school (yet), only in college, very specified what they're being paid to do and when / where (see McConnell, Caleb - btw we don't keep him without NIL)
Other places - These are multi million dollar business people writing checks. They didn't get there without being smart. Do you honestly think Joe Oil Guy at Texas ATM is writing checks to Johnny Football so Johnny Football can bail after one year?
For the big $$ contracts, there's verbiage written in where they have to stay for a certain period of time. Also in a lot of smaller contracts, there's clauses.
I honestly think a lot of this is jealousy of kids getting $$. Nobody cared when Schiano got paid. Yet GS could (and did) leave at anytime.
This is the new game. It's long overdue, but admittedly without rules and oversight, it's already become problematic. Hopefully we can step up and compete, and the oversight happens sooner rather than later
In regard to x number of teams can only compete now, look at the playoffs the past 5 years. It's Bama, Clemson, OSU and UGA (and Oklahoma). Do you honestly think they weren't buying players?
Clemson had NewSpring (amongst other things), Oklahoma has been dirty since the 70's. ATM gave Dickerson a yellow trans am, then he stabbed them in the back and went to $MU for more cash.
It's a brand new (and long overdue world). We weren't winning anything big pre-NIL. Now, at least we have a shot. Character is needed, but so are 4 and 5 starts. They weren't coming here before, now this at least gives us a fighting chance