As stated in other threads, all that does is match a team with three dozen guys with binoculars and headsets against a team with 6..
There needs to be institutional change, but they can start with enforcing some of the rules they already have in place. Alabama makes a mockery of the 'student-athlete' model, as the kids are putting in way more time than they are supposed to, while also getting coached by guys who they are supposed to not have any contact with.
The NCAA either just needs to go away, let power-5 football become semi-professional, or they need to come down on some of the big schools for once, and do little things like restrict... if not coaches' salaries, then cap the amount of paid personnel allowed to work in the football programs.
The NCAA's selective enforcement of certain rules, and failure to limit the ways teams could spend the rediculous money they generate (because, you know, free labor) got us here.
The amount of power-5 athletic departments hemorrhaging money, the hundred of millions spent on coaching buyouts...the sport has become untenable and rediculous, the 'rules' unenforceable.
And the same handful of teams are the only ones that will really benefit. Stop looking for historical comparisons. There are none. Root for the sport to change, or accept that this is the status quo.