From a monetary standpoint, the owners are accepting a far greater risk than that athlete. Anyone in any business is at risk. For players, their business is their body and that is the asset at risk. Smart ones, with good agents, buy the big injury insurance policies from Lloyds of London, just like any smart business owner would. Cry me a river for these players. They are getting paid to play a game for a living. Current salaries are absolutely ridiculous in all pro sports, entertainment, music, etc. People quit watching or paying for merch and tickets and you'd see it all drop back into the world of reality within 12 months. Instead, people just continue to support it.

As far as NIL goes, I pray that the coaches start treating the players exactly like the players are treating the transfer portal. Sign the scholly and if you're not on the field starting in 2 yrs, high on the depth chart, have a couple bad games or whatever, I hope the coaches start telling the players to clean out their lockers mid-season and move on. Scholarships have always been year to year but rarely did coaches not renew a college athlete's scholarship, without cause. The coaches were, and still are, at this point, far more committed to the players, than the players currently are to the schools and coaches. You're not seeing scholarships being yanked left and right but that is exactly what needs to start happening to curb some of this BS that the NCAA has allowed to fester and transpire.