Apples and oranges. That is all above board, and I see nothing wrong with it.
That gal who is staying in college rather than going to a league that no one watches will benefit greatly from staying in school more than just financially if she gets her degree.

The NIL deals and transfer portal will ruin college football. People much smarter than me can't see it and make the appropriate changes. High school football is still my slight favorite to college
football. It is getting ruined in my state as well. Private schools in my area can get kids from 5 surrounding counties and beat up on local community teams that play with their kids, often losing their
D1 prospects to these loaded teams. Once again the college educated idiot leaders aren't smart enough to fix things. We have a local private Div. 2 school that has more D1 college kids on their
team in any given year than my D1 local community team has had in the past 25 years.

Ohio State recently paid a high school quarterback several million dollars to commit to the school. The ingrate took the money and ran off to play for Texas, where he's now the star quarterback.

I'm an OSU double-alumnus and a fiercely loyal Buckeye fan. But I have to laugh at my alma mater's misfortune. I hope more big schools get burned like this. What were OSU's lawyers thinking, not to draft a contract that foresaw the possibility of a breach?

Paying college players is deplorable. The NCAA is just a mini-pro league now. The new system will really hurt the smaller, less well endowed schools.

Jim