It's not even NIL, lol. They're just *getting paid*. If it was truely NIL- the players should have a agents or trademarks or copyrights or whatever and should be royaltied the money being earned from their NIL. So the bowl money and ESPN money (the monsterous sums that were literally and specifically cited as the basis for the scotus to strike the autonomy of the NCAA) should be routed through the universities or the leagues to the players. But instead, NCAA, media outlets, and schools still keep the money while Baumhaurs and OTV donor collectives are paying the players lol. The sh*t is hilarious. I have no thoughts on paying players one way or the other- they deserve it, but the scotus just pulled some sh*t out it's @$$ on it's ruling.