NCAA Transfer Portal Idea So Far: Net Negative/Positive?

[horshack.sixpack]

Negative. I'm not sure it solved anything but it added some complexity. I would have preferred that a 4-year binding (within reason) scholarship offer be a thing. Protect student athletes from being discarded on a whim, or coaching change; protect schools from trying to figure out how to operate a program when everyone is a free agent.

 

[Seinfeld]

I think the portal itself has mostly been a positive by adding structure to a process that frankly didn't have much in the past. The big issue, though, is the NCAA's sudden willingness to grant waivers for immediate play. As soon as it started, people were already saying that they had opened pandora's box, and it's only gotten worse during the last couple years.

I could not possibly disagree more with people wanting to compare college athletes to a typical college student. They're not the same, they've never been the same, and they never will be the same again. Over an athlete's tenure, a college is literally investing tens of thousands of dollars into their education, health training, and coaching. After 2-3 years of that, everyone's cool with a starting player's decision to take off to Gainesville or Oxford just because they want to be closer the family? 17 that.

Graduate transfers can be a little bit different story at times, and I fully realize that we've had our fair share of them, but there just has to be a penalty involved to make someone think hard about a decision like that, yet the NCAA has done nothing but make it easier.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

I've traditionally leaned to siding with the school and free education aspect. Sometime in the last few years I began to realize how much these athletes are encouraged to major in things that honestly shouldn't even be college majors so that their school workload is not a burden. So in the cases of many of the elite athletes they will be getting a degree in something that isn't particularly useful. That's made me re-think what fair might mean in this context.

 

[My Bru]

I think the portal itself has mostly been a positive by adding structure to a process that frankly didn't have much in the past. The big issue, though, is the NCAA's sudden willingness to grant waivers for immediate play. As soon as it started, people were already saying that they had opened pandora's box, and it's only gotten worse during the last couple years.

I could not possibly disagree more with people wanting to compare college athletes to a typical college student. They're not the same, they've never been the same, and they never will be the same again. Over an athlete's tenure, a college is literally investing tens of thousands of dollars into their education, health training, and coaching. After 2-3 years of that, everyone's cool with a starting player's decision to take off to Gainesville or Oxford just because they want to be closer the family? 17 that.

Graduate transfers can be a little bit different story at times, and I fully realize that we've had our fair share of them, but there just has to be a penalty involved to make someone think hard about a decision like that, yet the NCAA has done nothing but make it easier.

The progressive arm of this wants more flexibility for the athletes. And it's hard to argue when these coaches are making millions and can go wherever they want whenever they want.

Seems like NCAA is allowing college athletics to become pro, but they want it to be a slow decline. Which is cowardly to me. I wish they'd stand up for the amateurism part, and start mandating how the schools can spend the money, cap coaching salaries, and limit the gold-plating of facilities. Force the NFL to create their own farm system rather than leaching the college system which is causing it to turn into a pro system itself.

 

[My Bru]

I've traditionally leaned to siding with the school and free education aspect. Sometime in the last few years I began to realize how much these athletes are encouraged to major in things that honestly shouldn't even be college majors so that their school workload is not a burden. So in the cases of many of the elite athletes they will be getting a degree in something that isn't particularly useful. That's made me re-think what fair might mean in this context.

Don't make the mistake of feeling sorry for just the football and basketball players though - that's what the progressives want. They want us to think the big, bad, cruel schools are taking advantage of poor kids. The non-revenue sports do the same bullcrap with the easy majors too.

 

[dog12]

Negative. I'm not sure it solved anything but it added some complexity. I would have preferred that a 4-year binding (within reason) scholarship offer be a thing. Protect student athletes from being discarded on a whim, or coaching change; protect schools from trying to figure out how to operate a program when everyone is a free agent.

I haven't spent much time thinking about the Transfer Portal, but I see a couple of positive things:

1) For a player that isn't getting any playing time and wants to play ball, he is able to go to the portal to see whether any schools are interested and has a place for him to play.

2) For a player that really doesn't want to be at the school, he is able to go to the portal and find somewhere else to go. For those players, we don't want them on the team anyway, because they would likely cause trouble. Players with terrible attitudes are like cancer to a team.

 

[philduckworth]

Yeah, the portal is fine. It's a good thing actually.

My belief is that:

1. all graduates should be allowed to transfer to any school without sitting out.
2. all other transfers must sit out a year, no exceptions. If you have a redshirt, you don't lose a year. If you've already redshirted, you will lose a year.