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Trump's April 3 executive order wants to restore a college sports model that courts dismantled for good reason. The athletes who finally started getting paid aren't the problem. The institutions that can't manage the new money are.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
NIL corrected a century of exploitation and put real money in athletes' hands for the first time. It also unleashed a lawless marketplace that is litigating itself into incoherence and hollowing out the locker room culture that made college sports worth caring about. Both things are true, and pretending otherwise is a failure of nerve.
By Rook Calloway · 4 min read