(caveat that the new system is still very much experiencing its birth pangs and will almost certainly look and feel very different 5, 10, 20 years from today) One of the vagaries of human psychology is a strong bias in favor of the status quo. The status quo of college football pre-NIL and pre-immediate eligibility post-transfer created a LOT of damage for college athletes - but that damage was accepted as the cost of doing business and barely even discussed in major public sources.