The NCAA spent years turning a blind eye to hush-hush inducements to get high-profile high school athletes to particular schools, and for years it kicked the idea of athletes being paid for their own names, images and likenesses down the road.
And now that at long last NIL means "now it's legal" for college athletes to be compensated and the NCAA's shamateurism has finally gone away, league commissioners and coaches are crying foul.
Like the inept, behind-the-times organization it has been for decades.
The NCAA had its chance to try to regulate NIL.