tl;dr: That's not true.
There is a clique of favorites who rely critically on NCAA favoritism. What they hate about the new era is that while they can still throw illegal bags, dodge investigations, and whatever else with complete impunity, their rivals can now counteract the clique's corrupt advantages via NIL, which is legal. What the clique wants is more NCAA laws and power, in order to retain and expand their corrupt advantage via unequal enforcement. Ultimately, they would like to cap NIL in some way in order that their old bag-game ways could put them over the top of the NIL caps with impunity, while their rival are restricted to the caps or subject to punishment. And their reputations for having top classes would stop being made less effectual through market forces like NIL and the portal, subjecting the favorites to rising parity. The small and mid-majors are more generally inclined to be pro-NCAA because of the continual expansion of the basketball and baseball tournament they run and include them in the gravy train. And they have some no little jealousy of the bigger teams, and feel somewhat gratified to see them attacked; the exception being the NCAA favorites before whom they play the suck-up. Finally, consider that the NCAA is compromised of school administrators: i.e., the schools themselves. And everyone who has been exposed to it knows how political administrations can be. Look sometimes at the members of the NCAA boards. Now if you want to say that fans of all teams, even the favorites, talk bad about the NCAA as it strikes them to do so, well that is different and misleading. You can compare this situation to corrupt conference officiating. More to the point, the current manipulated fan outcry that "something" has to be done is a sign that most fans repeat what they are told to repeat by the media and announcers. They are calling for more NCAA power and for punishments. They have been manipulated into believing that the old ways of the bag game and unequal enforcement were a kind of football Garden of Eden.
Very well said, and if you recall Saban has been lobbying the past few years for a cap, he even went to congress it didn’t change things so he QUIT (retired)
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