Bingo. Consult the NFL.This actually turned my stomach when I heard it live. Paying players was sold as justice but has predictably become big bags of money for the few-- the minority of programs and the vast minority of players. It's the worst of the unregulated free market. Put another way, only a minority of programs and players would have voted for this outcome, but this is what we all end up with. Money rots everything.
Whether or not it benefits the Gophers is way down my list of interests. Sports is most interesting when it's competitive. That's most of why MLB has lost its historical popularity. College sports has always had its haves and have nots, and now it's that on steroids. You're already seeing a decline in popularity. They're killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
I’ve been saying this since the call for “justice” by people who stand to make a lot of money off the players. Rules established to benefit a very few, while the masses don’t benefit at all and may lose if the trends of guys leaving programs and not reconnecting with another continues. The old system functionally assured a degree of the player honored his commitment and did the work. Not so much anymore.