Iowa team captain enters the portal
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Yeah, kind of surprised by this one, but his stats weren’t stellar this past season. Hopefully, he can get more $ elsewhere.
The sport is heading to a time when it will be weird for a given player to not be hitting the portal annually.
The NCAA is not going to lead on this. They won't get off their asses even once 100% of all players hit the portal annually.
Time for the BIG and SEC to find a way forward.
The NCAA is not going to lead on this. They won't get off their asses even once 100% of all players hit the portal annually.
Time for the BIG and SEC to find a way forward.
I think the days of program building are about done. Developing players takes time, then they leave to chase the bag. I don’t blame them but it’s hard to get too invested as a casual fan in this environment.
When you’re the best player on a mid team, you get a free upgrade if you want it.
apparently he's homo, which makes the move from iowa all the more strange
It is like I said before, iowa, minny, NW, Purdue, they are poverty programs.
Why stay at a program with less money when you know you will never do more than make a bowl game.
You can make a bowl game anywhere. But you can only make more money at a few schools.
Why stay at a program with less money when you know you will never do more than make a bowl game.
You can make a bowl game anywhere. But you can only make more money at a few schools.
Agree, but the NCAA, even congress, will not be able to stop a player from transferring to another school at this point.
Izzo and Calipari were bitching about this when Baylor picked up the senior citizen from Nigeria, James Nnaji. The NCAA should have stopped this.
But there is no way they can stop a kid from transferring or limit the number of times he can transfer. A simple lawsuit will settle this on behalf of the athlete.
As it should be, the idea of restricting people and their ability to move from one spot to another is insane.
The NCAA amateurism rules have essentially been tossed due to precedence, ambiguity, hypocrisy, and NIL. They can't enforce a damn thing and they know it. The NCAA cannot dictate whether a person may or may not enroll in a specific college. They cannot dictate that a person is not able to participate in collegiate athletics. In today's current landscape, their rules are moot.
Here's an example, law firm X had a brilliant paralegal. Her legal and intuitive skills were off the chart. She had a BA in management and was extremely overqualified. Although she was in her 30s, she decided to go to law school and thus, left the law firm to pursue her JD. While in college she clerks and participates in part-time paralegal activities to earn cash.
While overly broad, the principles above are the same as a former pro going back to college.
My question... where does Lebron James go after he's done with the NBA? He went straight to the NBA from high school.
It's coming.
It's so insane that every major sports league does it.
Which is why the NFL, for instance, doesn't have every single player moving to a new team every single season.
The could 100% sign one year contracts in the NFL, right? The players choose to NOT do that because they don't think it is best for them, most of the time. Next.
In college you get 5 years (for the most part) and then it is gone forever.
Yep. Enforceable contracts in addition to many other things like franchise tags make it completely possible.
Unrestricted free agency in a sports league is completely insane, which is why no other league does it.
Their unions voted for that.
And they can still move every single year if they want.
New high school kids are gonna need to go to FCS to prove themselves first moving forward with a paid contract.
No one has ever been denied the right to transfer. That is where the big lie takes over. No one is forced to accept an athletic based scholarship…but if you did…the rules were you had to sit for a year if you transfer. You could still transfer. Even little leagues have eligibility and address restrictions. No one was being denied anything. College athletes were revered and at one time getting a scholarship and being able to play at that level was considered a privilege and an honor…as it should be.
They were being denied and the rules have changed.
You are putting sports on a pedestal for no reason.
You are right no one was being forced to accept a scholarship. And now no one is being forced to sit our a full year for no reason.