Pretty spot-on. And some of those same people also try to tell heart-tugging stories about guys in the NFL who were 2-star recruits and walk-ons, as if that somehow destroys the argument that blue-chip recruits matter.
Bottom line is that the NCAA, and the major conferences, have been cesspools of rules avoidance for decades. Sure, well-meaning state legislatures put limits on how much the coach can be paid? No problem-o, we'll just figure out ways for coaches to be paid by booster clubs and non-profits and local TV stations and shoe companies. And while we are at it, let's (until recently) restrict the players from being paid (and punish a women's volleyball player for "TAKING" a university's water to wash her car), while we allow coaches to be paid multi-million dollar salaries.
Look, I'm not saying I have all the answers on how to fix all the problems in college athletics. And there will always be "good intentions" that lead to "unforeseen and unintended consequences".
But the SEC has been like Hitler's Germany, annexing country after country ("honest, we promise we'll stop after Sudetenland"), and the NCAA has been playing the part of Neville Chamberlain. Coaching salaries have skyrocketed while the triumvirate of Saban, Swinney and Meyer have DOMINATED the actual trophy accumulation over the past 20 years. Those are the only three guys who deserve the money, but a bunch of ham-and-eggers are getting paid and laid at 50 other universities that mistakenly think they have a shot at the crystal football.
And it might already be too late. The NCAA Constitutional Convention could actually be worth a ****e if (a) Thanos snapped his fingers and blipped Mark Emmert out of existence, and (b) the SEC wasn't fully prepared to take its footballs and leave the NCAA forever if the Convention threatens to take away their cash cows and overpaid coaches and unlimited analysts and "academic support centers" and waterslides and whatnot.