I used to work in the college sports business, and it is definitely a business, and there is zero altruism or concern for anyone’s student status. Only when it comes time to make an example out of some coach who can’t follow the Byzantine regulations in some effort to seem like they are tough in their stance for “amateurism” does the NCAA ever do anything with the student-athlete in mind.

Then one has to wonder how many “student-athletes” get hurt by the reduction of scholarships since the ones who won’t get those missing scholarships are usually the best scholars on the team, not the best athletes. The best athletes will not be the ones hurt by the scholarship downsizing so in reality the few true student-athletes that exist are really only hurt by the NCAA’s ham-handed regulations.