A lot of people already get NIL money, so adding school pay on top just feels like it turns college sports into a job. I get why the other side wants fairness, but I don't really know, it seems like it could make everything messier and less about school.

Honestly the other side didn't give me much to push back on, so I'll just restate my gut feeling. College is supposed to be school, and paying players directly starts making it feel more like a contract job than an education. I don't have a strong answer for that, that's just how it seems.

You see schools like Stanford and Eastern Michigan cut sports programs when budgets got tight, and if football money goes to direct payouts, that squeeze hits everyone else. My opponent has a fair point about fairness, honestly, but I can't really argue it back. Just feels wrong somehow.