Here is that wide road for ya to inspect. Seems to me that there's been a rock slide across the 'narrow path' at this point. It would take some serious work to clear the way for a return to sanity, and the iG just doesn't see the morals or character among those currently in charge, for that to happen. The SWAMP and the swamp, both seem to have been over-run by the same corruption disease....
"This is the world we’re living in. NIL is out of control, the transfer portal’s out of control. There's no rules and regulations. There's nobody that's in charge and enforcing anything. It's the wild, wild west, people doing anything they want. So even when you make a quote-unquote gentleman's agreement with this new alliance, you almost feel like as you're shaking hands with this gentleman's agreement and the other guy has his hands behind his back with his fingers crossed."
“With NIL, with the money that's coming into this world, wait until players become employees. I think that's going to be part of this too. I think this world that I'm describing is going to break away from the NCAA. I think they'll create their own governing body. They'll put a commissioner that's in charge of it. They'll probably do a CBA with the players essentially making them employees. And then you'll negotiate a deal with them to avoid the antitrust law. Negotiate a deal. Here's our deal. We'll pay you a salary your freshman year, we’ll pay you a salary your sophomore year, junior year, senior year, and the longer you stay, the more money you make. And that's, again, it's professional football, but I think what happens is that next tier team, is they will now create their own division and have to be left out of the College Football Playoff and big boy football.”
“And I think to kind of clarify it for fans, I think another way of looking at it, it's going to be the AFC and the NFC of college football. You’ll have what, four divisions within each conference? You may have two or three divisions within each of these Big Ten and SEC conferences. And I think you'll see, eventually, then go to like a 12- or a 16-team playoff and it's essentially going to be NFL football on Saturdays. I think that's where this thing's headed before it's all said and done.” -- Kirk Herbstreit