Could players actually be incentivized financially to play for the NCAA more than the NFL? What if these schools generate so much money from football and paying players that they eventually can offer players more money than even the NFL? Sure it seems a ways off, but imagine if a booster with deep pockets says to an NFL player...hey come back to college and play football and we will pay you more than you are getting paid in the NFL. I don't know if there are rules that would prevent that, but how crazy could that be? Not every NFL player is making a ton of money. Maybe for fringe players it's better they stay in school and get a salary paid that's more than what they could make in the NFL. Also, there is no salary cap in college, if you get enough boosters together, you could probably pay to field a really good team of players that make more than they could in the NFL.

But why would boosters do that when they get no financial return? I don't know, why do they do it now?

I am all for NIL, but I just don't quite understand how its going to work without it becoming just another professional league of some sort.