re: Is a lockout actually what college sports needs?

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They didn’t give it up, they were stripped of it by the courts due to them wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

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Not exactly. NCAA allowed NIL after a Supreme Court ruling about NCAA limits on education benefits in scholarships for athletes with NIL only mentioned in a concurring opinion by one justice but not the binding decision. Some say the writing was on the wall, but technically it had not been written yet on NIL that summer of 2021. NCAA had opportunity after the concurring opinion was played up as forcing NIL that summer to try to bring some structure to it at the start. Likely some challenges to implementation and rules, but the school year was not far away from starting. Instead it immediately waived the white flag.

With the cases about limits on transfers the past couple of years when a judge put out a temporary injunction the NCAA kept waving the white flag, refusing to appeal injunctions, and with initial case on limits to transfers officially changed the transfer rules to match the temp injunction. May have done the same on others.

They are not really fighting anything. It almost looks like they are good with everything but want to keep appearances of this being forced onto them by judges and make some judicial activist case law on the subject. That wouldn’t be surprising with university presidents and ADs wanting to redistribute wealth to poorer blacks, so they do little to truly fight the decisions including the revenue sharing case.

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I’m all for players getting paid but who decided to just make it a free for all with unlimited NIL & transfers??

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The NCAA with support of its member University Presidents by not truly fighting anything in court including temporary injunctions about the transfer rules and not attempting to implement any structure to what was NIL in name only when they had more time to do so.

They did a rush job like the Supremes forced them when the case only ruled on limits to education benefits for scholarship athletes with one non-binding nod to NIL in a concurring opinion.

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What if the top 5 players are all from a state and dream of playing for the local school

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What if the top 20 NFL stars all dreamed of playing for one team and the owner of said team could afford $50 million salaries for all 20? That'd be super fun to watch, right?

Of course all of this would have to be governed by some kind of CBA, which would be fun to watch play out. There are plenty of kids playing CFB that aren't making 6-7 figures so you'd think they would have the numbers to get something done.

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Would you just not give out athletic scholarships for a year?

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You give them out but don’t have any actual games