re: This idea of sign with school (NIL) to the highest bidder will crash and burn

The leverage is the ability to transfer which you can do without sitting once. So after a 5 star gets paid to sign, after the first season he threatens to leave unless he keeps getting paid. If he is stuck down the depth chart, why would you pay him? Then he leaves for an NIL deal at another school and his leverage is effectively gone. Now back up and start to wonder why a 5 star stuck on the bench was paid to begin with. Makes me think this shite will die down (to a degree) at a certain point.