I still find it absurd! And everyone who can afford this will do this because it's the Keeping up with the Jones' mentality that is wrecking college athletics especially for schools like us.
I agree. If allowed, this will spread, and will become the norm. Ohio has a hard enough time recruiting those 3-star athletes against P5 teams, but currently Ohio manages to get a few kids a year to turn down P5 offers and choose Ohio instead.
As this, and other things like it, spread, having a kid choose Ohio over a P5 team will become increasingly rare....so...eventually Ohio, and other G5 teams will have to find a way to match it, or come close. That seems to be the way things are going. The P5 teams add things, and then G5 teams find that their expenses go up, too.