This will most probably be the long term effect. NIL (Pay for Play) will eventually kill the non revenue sports (women’s sports mostly).The easy answer - end women's sports. It will happen now. Has to. They will become club sports.
Or, better yet, end the direct connection between all sports and their universities.
This will be followed by much pearl clutching concerning equal opportunity for women to the point where universities will need to make a choice. A semi professional sports product (run by an entity not associated with the university-ie: semi pro) wearing the university brand. Essentially the team is “advertising” for the university. Or wash their hands of it completely because it does fit the academic mission of the institution. No longer can the school say it is offering academic opportunities for kids via athletic scholarships because there is no tie other than a line item in the marketing budget.
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