What I’m saying is that with an annual budget with revenues of $858,492,640 for FY 2023 like UNT had, that it is completely absurd for the institution to be asking people like you and I to be funding player salaries - and make no mistake that’s exactly what NIL is. If we wanted to put aside $3,000,000 a year from the annual budget for player salaries, that would constitute .35% of the total revenue generated.
Having worked at UNT for 16 years previously, I know how much waste, bloat, and inefficiency is all through the institution and system. We could come up with $3,000,000 a year in wasted, unneeded, consultant fees and barely scratch the surface of what’s available. It’s not a matter of resources being available, it would simply be the will to allocate differently. My suggestion is to allow Universities in FBS to pay players directly from the annual university budget, allocate it directly to Athletics to distribute to athletes as employees of the university, and overall treat it as a sunk cost marketing expenditure - as athletics on TV weekly is basically just advertising for the schools.
As for student fees, well there’s a whole pile of mandatory fees the universities impose onto students for all types of services most students don’t utilize at all. No one forces anyone to attend an institution of higher education. Don’t like the fee structure at UNT, find another place. Maybe UH, Tech, Tx State ect are more to your liking? But I doubt it.