If you really want teams to pay players, increase scholarship limits or make them employees. NIL is not teams paying athletes. It's also not a collective raising money to pay athletes. NIL is someone being able to make money from their own name, image, or likeness. Many times that is an individual appearing in an ad for a business. It could be selling t-shirts, jerseys, or something else. It could be running a YouTube channel. It's usually an exchange type transaction and both sides receive value. I think everyone's upset about NIL because it still feels like schools/teams are cheating by paying players simply to come to a specific school. If you are only worth X number of dollars because you go to USC, Texas, BYU, or where ever, then you are making money from that university's NIL not your own.