of this. NIL and the transfer portal is destroying college football. They need a monetary cap on this big pile of …The NCAA is gonna have to do something about the portal stuff or their post season is gonna collapse. People will watch great bowl games but not when half the starters have quit. So many USC and ND players have quit, neither team can really brag about a win in this game.
Because it’s the cool thing to do now. They wanna be recruited again, to get pampered again and all that stuff. I could see an FCS kid portalling to try his shot to play in a Power 5 program but damn, starting for an 8-4 SEC team to go where???
I gotta wonder if some of it is envy toward the way the big fish players are treated than say the money they pull in. Maybe they just want to be a big fish even if it's in a little pond. Lot of things to envy I guess if you are the type that spends time worrying about what the other guy has. Chasing happiness I would guess. I could see it... not being happy around big fish on your team if you feel like you ain't one.
Yeah right. Does everyone’s credits transfer. That was the big problem in the 90s
I'd imagine it's still a problem going from one state university system to another.
I forgot about that. As a coach from the 90s until recently, who has seen quite a few kids go the JUCO route or transfer out of other schools, I do know it is still a big problem today. How so many are so easily able to get it done idk.
It started as an amateur sport….it was appealing. Now it’s appalling.
Yeah…that was my point….geesh🥴 Went right over your head I see.
I thought a free Education with room and board was payment.
An "amateur" sport that generates billions per year for the people at the top on the backs of free labor. NCAA v. Alston was a 9-0 unanimous opinion written by Gorsuch and joined by, among others, Roberts, Alito, Coney Barrett, and Thomas, with Kavanaugh concurring even more strongly in favor of the athletes. But ok. It's all the progressives' fault.
Only because of the manufactured economy that was amateurism. If that was fair payment, there wouldn't be so much more money left over to both pay the athletes and continue to enrich their overlords.
Being a free market doesnt mean you shouldn’t commit to something. Our nation doesnt do forced marriages, you’re free to marry who you want. That doesnt mean that once you do you shouldnt be commited to that spouse.
Same with me regarding Sterling Sharpe, Harold Green and Todd Ellis. My kids can’t even follow their favorite player because they leave every year.
... not to mention a stage for them to play on, trainers, masseuse, healthcare providers, hot tubs, exercise equipment, all the video games they can play, tutors, etc...etc.
I was commenting on people saying NIL is destroying college sports. I am in agreement that if you sign on you finish. I enforced it with my kids. And I am dumb enough that I would risk injury to get to play one more game at the college level even if it meant hurting my draft stock.
Free market is good but you have to protect your product...
No pro sports league would survive under this chaos, and college sports wont either
What do you suggest that isn't a restraint of trade violative of the Sherman Act? I'm sure the NCAA has top flight lawyers working on it but we're two years in from Alston and eight years in from O'Bannon v. NCAA and so far they've got nothing.
And I think that's where we are. College sports as we knew it is dead. We're all processing grief like a beloved family member died. On the positive side bowl season starts today!
What free market economy? This has nothing to do with a free market. The NIL is a booster inducement to encourage guys to play for their school. It's a gift, not a free market. Do you really think ANYONE is going to buy a new car from a booster's dealership just because some kid that plays football for USC is on the ad? They are not adding value to the booster's business. They are adding enjoyment for the booster to watch his favorite team win.
"NIL was supposed to be centered around jersey sales and video game proceeds," according to sports business reporter Darren Rovell. Instead, it has turned into 'free-market capitalism.'”
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