Yeah, the government is not going to get in the way of players making a buck. In fact, the Supreme Court has already weighed in on the Alston case, where Justice Kavanaugh wrote:
“The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America.”
Kavanaugh took direct aim against the logic that the schools and fans have always had an amateur, unpaid system, writing that “all of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’ wages on the theory that ‘customers prefer’ to eat food from low-paid cooks. ... Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses’ income in order to create a ‘purer’ form of helping the sick. ... Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor.” He added that “it is not clear how the NCAA can legally defend its remaining compensation rules,” and concludes thusly: “The NCAA is not above the law.”
In other words, players are going to get their money, and I think it’s a reasonable leap that the courts are going to view players as paid employees of the universities.
Everything is on the table and college football is over as everyone knew it. If schools have to give up most of the cash to coaches and players, yet face all the downside risks, there will be little incentive to keep playing the college football game. Many will exit.