Even a casual observer of college sports can see the system is broken. What was once a haven for amateur athletics has become big business, even bigger perhaps than the professional leagues that many of these young sportsmen and women hope someday to join. 

Fans are understandably aghast at the insanity of the new rules establishing transfer portals and name, image, and likeness agreements, and a patchwork of state laws that have tried to stabilize things. Predictably, as others have tried to bring order out of chaos without success, Congress is stepping up to take a whack at it.