Any portal athlete should have to meet the admissions and transfer requires that apply to any student, that would help the situation and limit the potential landing places for many of the players in the portal.
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Are they???
The NCAA is exactly what the member schools want. They created it.
The problem is the courts have eviscerated pretty much everything the NCAA could do They have no control over transfers, eligibility, or paying of players. As a result, it’s the wild west out there. The only way to regulate it is for congress to get involved, God help us all, to grant an anti-trust exemption to the NCAA and to prevent local judges from issuing injunctions that end up giving players 6+ years of eligibility or professional athletes, e.g., Diego Pavia or the ability to play after being paid to play professionally in the G-league or overseas. If that would happen, it would at least level the playing field. You know even with NIL “rules” there are going to be schools out there that would put SMU in the 80’s to shame.
I would like to see:
- One free transfer, after that you need to sit a year.
- If you transfer, you have to have proof of academic progress. We’ll call it the Michael Graham rule.
- Portal window opens after the bowl season. Problem is bowls and CFP extend into the spring semesters.
- NIL with real teeth in it for reinforcement. I have no doubt Miami(FL) is doing what SMU did and worse. No CFP, no bowls, no $$. With NIL these days, reduction in scholarships isn’t really a penalty. Maybe reducing the roster sizes.
- Just as there is a window for the portal, there needs to be a window for hiring coaches. We got burned by Briles, Sumlin, and Herman costing us major bowls and conference championships by interviewing during the week of the CCG. Have a period from 12/1 until the day after the CFP championship game where coaches cannot interview. What Lane Kiffin did is just bad for college sports.
I realize many of these might not be feasible, but something needs to be done. You think Duke gets all of these 5* players because they want an education? Think they could get in academically? Their alumni have an NIL fund that can beat almost every school out there, regardless of sport.
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They also led the nation in disappointing seasons last year, so no surprise.
It’s hard to run a business successfully when you don’t know who will show up for work
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I sure don’t know, but it all seems to be connected and needs to be regulated to prevent the chaos and unfairness that it is right now.
Some players will go into the portal seeking NIL money, I think, while others are seeking playing time.
I always wonder about the Marquee Players getting financial rewards with NIL money, while their team players that contribute to their success get zip. It’s not like professional football where everyone is paid under contract.
Anyway, I hate seeing “amateur” sports giving way to what it is becoming, but maybe all players get some compensation if they win a number of games, go to a bowl, win championships- It is a team sport.
I would say UT and Michigan fans are pretty disappointed today…
Understood but regular students aren’t being paid to move every year
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Boo hoo…Tell them to turn on the TV and watch the playoffs…oh yeah…Your’e not there.
The stability of college football was imperiled when schools allowed media conglomerates to destroy conferences and pick winners and losers.
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That makes way too much sense.
Of course not! And the sooner we stop pretending the better.
Well, IDGAF!!
You are right but think of Dexter Manley. He entered the NFL and he was illiterate. This all goes back to paying players under the table. This has never been exposed to the full extent of what it was, what it is and where we are going with this. To this day no one from the main outlets like espn, cbs or fox has come out and told the truth. This is like “Let’s not talk about it and kill the golden goose”
I remember a few months ago a great Coogfans poster debated me writing that uta did not need to pay its players. This was obviously not true.
I do not blame uta for doing it. My disdain toward uta is about how uta manipulated the ncaa and got us on near death penalty multiple times. It damaged our programs to the cost of hundreds of $M’s over decades. More importantly these probations “almost fatally derailed” our program.
Today we have politicians, espn pundits up in arms with a teetech donor because to their view he bought a team. These comments redefine hypocrisy.
Does anybody on planet earth believes that oregon would be in the cfp without Phil Knight? When was the last time that the media has talked about Nike and Phil Knight helping our oregon?
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Amen.
The latest crisis according to the ESPN talking heads is the leftover coaching staff at Mississippi, who were thought to be starting their new gig at LSU today, except Mississippi beat Georgia last night. Now there is a back-and-forth between LSU and Mississippi over when the coaches start at LSU. Compounding the matter is the opening of the transfer portal today. This sounds like it could get quite messy.
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Yes the same so called blue bloods. That is why they hate this new “order” because they can no longer control it with the corrupt ncaa.
campbell is trying to have congress control college sports instead of the ncaa. I am all for it.
A true independent body is the only option.
In reality these main blue bloods have the rodent doing their dirty work. It is a win/win criminal enterprise for them since the nfl does not have a minor league. Oh yeahhh the big10 and sec want to control the cfp…did you ever ask yourselves why?
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If a player can opt out of remaining games for his health and to preserve his earning potential then why can’t he do the same for games that aren’t on ABC or against conference opponents? I guess he could and the team could suspend him. Doing it at the end hamstrings the schools
I think the real answer lies not in the NCAA but in the NFL. If the NFL had a rule that players entering the draft either had to fulfill their scholarship commitments (play) or have their degree, or both, would it make an impact on opt-outs?
The league is a private company with the right to hire people based on its own criteria.
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They used to have similar (sort of) rules about when their class would have graduated etc ect. Now sure but seems like anti trust or something voided it all to the now wild wild wild.
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This is why I think the NFL should be … encouraged… to run minor league football the way other sports do. College ball can be for college, but if players just want to get paid, let the NFL pay for it’s own farm system. Both routes are draft eligible after 3 years, and college ball stops being so stupid.
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