NCAA May Allow Unlimited, Immediately-Eligible Transferring
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I don't really get to wrapped up in all these rules, probably to an extent the more flexibility for the student athetes the better, but at some point you are abandoning the pretense of them being students and they are just football mercenaries. FWIW in the new reality I think Frost will be able to (and has already) succeed at recuiting transfers versus some of our previous coaches, but he's going to have to actually win games.
If they are trying to alienate the casual fan sitting on the fence about what to watch on Saturday I couldn't think of a better way to do it....than to pass this.
That would be hilarious: one player goes into the halftime locker room as a Sooner, comes back out in a Husker uniform….
NIL deals/contracts might put brakes on the transfers for the most elite players at the biggest NIL schools. If your NIL contract states you have to stay at the school to keep collecting a big sum of money some other bigger NIL deal would have to come along. On the other hand, if you're a star at a smaller school it's likely to be adios with bidding wars developing.
There will still be eligibility requirements as far as progressing toward a degree. This won't be like the fall semester of a stud football player's junior year or the spring semester of a one and done basketball player.
I think football will need some sort of time required at the school like baseball... 2 years before draft eligible. If you sign at a school, you need to stay there x number of seasons so the staff can have some sort of continuity between seasons. But WTF do I know?????
Seems like this is yet another tool to make it easy for kids to quit things. Hopefully the powers that be see the light here and don't follow thru with this.
They're actually trying to alienate the true fans. There is an organized assault against sports. The government doesn't want us to be big sports fans. They want us to be forced to watch whatever they pump into our living-rooms.
I think teams should get an automatic draft pick if they lose a player. (insert sarcasm here)
Some kids currently plan to have the option to grad transfer and so they get their diploma as quickly as they can. That may go out the window.
Sorry, those in control want to use sports and entertainment to keep us occupied. Doesn't it seem funny to you that a CEO of a company is criticized for making too much money but an athlete or coach is not? Sports will forever be the distraction from real life.
Someone help me understand (I am slow at times) how/why people say it will help recruiting in California now because a team in the B1G will play then once of twice a year. Does not the same hold true for a Nebraska or Minnesota kid who wants to go the west coast - they can sell, hey you will play in front of your family 2-4 times in your career. How is only an advantage one way but not the other?
Some kids currently plan to have the option to grad transfer and so they get their diploma as quickly as they can. That may go out the window.
Sorry, those in control want to use sports and entertainment to keep us occupied. Doesn't it seem funny to you that a CEO of a company is criticized for making too much money but an athlete or coach is not? Sports will forever be the distraction from real life.
Someone help me understand (I am slow at times) how/why people say it will help recruiting in California now because a team in the B1G will play then once of twice a year. Does not the same hold true for a Nebraska or Minnesota kid who wants to go the west coast - they can sell, hey you will play in front of your family 2-4 times in your career. How is only an advantage one way but not the other?
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True American guys fans who love football and their college will stop watching. But with the world being a small place now, they can still get an international audience....the reality-show crowd and foreigners.
Yeah it's awfully funny how the media loves all this, loves ruining football, basketball, golf....but they hate a private business and CEO making a lot of money. Excellent point.
Which starts to bite into tv revenues, NIL payouts, and then the pendulum shifts back the other way.
I don't agree with unlimited transfers because it destroys loyalty/teamwork on the teams but I also don't think it is going to cause the average fan to stop watching college football. On the contrary, I think teams that "collect" desirable transfers in will have fans wanting to see what those transfers can add to the team.
I know I'm interested in seeing what the transfers in will mean to Nebraska football fortunes this upcoming season. And I'm not going to stop watching Nebraska games just because Adrian Martinez left. How many people on this board are in a funk because Adrian left and will quit watching Nebraska games as a result?
I know I'm interested in seeing what the transfers in will mean to Nebraska football fortunes this upcoming season. And I'm not going to stop watching Nebraska games just because Adrian Martinez left. How many people on this board are in a funk because Adrian left and will quit watching Nebraska games as a result?
This move, if made, will be due to political necessity. The NCAA has no friends left on either side of the political aisle. If you go back to the Alston case, a 9-0 US Supreme Court decision by nine justices who usually can't agree that the sky is blue, Judge Kavanaugh clearly stated in his concurrence that, had the question been before the court, it would have ruled that the NCAA is in violation of federal antitrust law. The lawyers have been ready to pounce ever since. Any NCAA rule seen as inhibiting a student-athlete's ability to do what any other student can do will not survive legal scrutiny, with one exception -- the NCAA will still be allowed to tie educational advancement into it's rules. So if a student-athlete is in good academic standing and is on track for a degree, he/she will be allowed to transfer unlimited times, just like the tuba player in the band. There's a lot more to it, but this is the nutshell.
The NCAA has become more powerless by the day because of various court actions and they know it (witness last year's announcement that the association would no longer enforce Bylaw 12, the amateurism rules regarding payment, which led to the present NIL situation. An amazing, unprecedented capitulation by an organization that clung to it's many powers forever). You can say the present situation is good or that it's bad. But the power lies squarely in the hands of the kids (and conferences) at this point. It's a new world in college athletics.
I worked in the business for 25 years before recent retirement. Mere words cannot express how glad I am to no longer be a part of the college sprots world.
Idk why everyone's overreacting so much. College football at the upper level is becoming and will become the NFL light league in due time.
Pretty awesome I think! Screw the NCAA, university uppities, etc. Game on!
Pretty awesome I think! Screw the NCAA, university uppities, etc. Game on!
It gives lots of people built in excuses for losing by pointing out the suspected cheating of others.
drama creates hate and hate is the foundation upon which college football is built
lots of people still throwing shade at Husker Power going on 30 years later, and I love it