re: For those who think paying college athletes is just fine.

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How many tens of thousands of dollars is a full ride scholarship to a major university worth? Don't tell me these kids are not being paid

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Depends on whose perspective you ask. From mine, not one "tens of thousands of dollars". The paper the diploma is printed on is worth more to me.
As for the top 1% of recruits this discussion is really about, the diploma is worth about the same as to me. They don't go to college to play school. They couldn't care less about what you value that scholarship at in terms of $.
Even if worth 10s of thousands, was Jayden Daniels' contribution to LSU in $ value the same as Peyton Todd's? Why should the compensation in the 10s of thousands be the same? Shouldn't Daniels be worth more to LSU based on what he generated? Did Todd's contribution even equal the value of the scholarship? Using your proposal, the cycle of the rich getting richer(LSU in this case) continues. Meanwhile, it proposes that there is no middle class. Just the poor at the bottom getting the same rate no matter their true value. A little socialistic.
Now let's spin it around. How do you propose we deal with situations like Livvy Dunne? She's capitalized on NIL as much as anyone yet her value to the gymnastics title was far less than many of the other gymnasts. Should she be granted the right to make the millions she's made? Why aren't the other girls compensated the same? Couldn't be she has a product that is more valuable! That can't be allowed can it? Not according to those who cast stones at college football players taking advantage of the same system.
As I said, you don't obliterate the entire system because a few bad actors take advantage. That encompasses the schools, boosters, agents, parents and kids. The system is fine. The egos with the money playing by rules other than those the rest of us must is what's broken. You don't make decisions based on what benefits the top 1%. The 99% that use the system the right way should be the basis for those decisions. That debate is central to the considerable amount of unrest politically in this country at present.
Seemingly unrelated decisions based on selfish ideas of the elite trickle down to the average eventually. As it relates to NIL, college football and us as average Americans. The NCAA, TV networks, shoe companies catch grief about making billions on the backs of amatuers for decades not allowed to benefit on their own worth. They pass blame onto the universities who agree(forced or not) to pay their share of compensation. Even further all agree on a capped(this is important) amount of $ the university will contribute to the NIL fund yearly. Then right on que, who do the universities ask for the balance of the $? You guessed it, us the average American sports fan. Then to ensure the continuation of the cycle, some of us, as average LSU fans and Americans, portray elite and chastise those who dare not choose to contribute to the nonsense. In essence, the noncontributors are the poor in this scenario. Also happen to be those in which all the sense lies. Makes one wonder who's really "rich"?