Re-watching the "Pony Excess" I actually think it might be my favorite 30 for 30.
NCAA was

Ya'll better cut it out.
SMU was like we'll try to do a better job of hiding it.
NCAA comes back and said

We thought we told y'all to cut it out.
SMU was like OK we'll stop but we gotta cycle these guys that we are paying out, but we still gotta fulfill our promises/Payroll for these guys that are here because we been paying them.
At least they were trying to honor their promise. But can you imagine if they had NIL in 1982? They would've gave them dudes a whole skyscraper.