It isn’t semantics at all. There are two different pies. One the schools and NCAA cooled they don’t get a piece of and one that is much smaller that you had a hand in cooking. The f you recall, the players thought they had won the right to a piece of the pie the schools and NCAA cooked yet...
An idea I had for NIL was to have a soft NIL cap as well as a hard player cap. You’re allowed to have a max amount of players and can spend up to the soft cap on that amount of players but if you choose to spend more NIL than the soft cap you must reduce the number of players on the roster...