The NCAA, which is really to say…the Presidents (CEO’s, by any name/title) of P5 institutions, due to their own greed, lack of foresight, and inability to hire capable executive leadership, lost control of collegiate athletics.
As soon as anyone started talking about money in the high 6 / low 7 figures (for anything related to college athletics), they should have anticipated lawyers coming for that money and proactively adapted their business model to prevent the complete abdication (or seizure, depending upon your perspective) of control of that for which they were responsible. But…infinite greed, zero foresight, and incompetent leadership prevented ‘the NCAA’ from saving itself.
There is no “defense” for them. Starting to play prevent defense when you are already down 3 scores merits no measure of positive acknowledgement.