They don’t have to put up with idiotic NCAA rules. Really that’s what this is all about, the NCAA’s hard ban on athletes receiving any level of compensation, including the kind of stipends that come with academic scholarships.
So players coming out of high school will go to the highest bidder. This will make LeBron James jealous.
D1 football players receive money and a lot of other things within the rules. The things they actually are allowed to receive and do is never made public. Just the continual tear jerk stories. A few years ago a VT senior on the football team wrote a good article about it. They get a lot more than I ever thought. Since that article they get more.