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10,965 football players entered the Transfer Portal. 40% of FBS portal guys are still looking for a home

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Franisdaman

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A final Transfer Portal Update:

10,965 NCAA football players entered the portal.
- 3,972 FBS
- 2,771 FCS
- 4,222 D2/D3

Many have signed and are enrolled at new schools.

But 6,671 NCAA football players are active and hoping to sign.
- 1,619 FBS
- 1,782 FCS
- 3,270 D2/D3

40% of FBS portal guys are still looking.
64% of FCS portal guys are still looking.
77% of D2 and D3 portal guys are still looking.

Find a school. Get coached-up. Earn a degree. Win some ball games. Create relationships. Change your life.

And use #PortalSZN wisely.

 
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...and many of them are about to learn a hard lesson about overestimating their value. One way for this wild west anything goes portal nonsense to be tamped down to some degree is if thousands of these guys don't find a new home and also aren't welcomed black to their old one. They can be invited to pay for college themselves or go get a job...the latter option perhaps best left for those who "ain't come there to play school."
 
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Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo said:
...and many of them are about to learn a hard lesson about overestimating their value. One way for this wild west anything goes portal nonsense to be tamped down to some degree is if thousands of these guys don't find a new home and also aren't welcomed black to their old one. They can be invited to pay for college themselves or go get a job...the latter option perhaps best left for those who "ain't come there to play school."
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I suspect the stats we are seeing now are very similar to last year. A lot of kids are being left out in the cold. On one hand, the roster moves are probably driving coaches crazy. On the other hand, sometimes players that aren't good fits leave to open up roster spots. I don't know if things will change tbh. I think as long as players are able to transfer like they're able to I'm guessing that players will still move as much as they're doing.
 
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Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo

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Mister Plow said:
I suspect the stats we are seeing now are very similar to last year. A lot of kids are being left out in the cold. On one hand, the roster moves are probably driving coaches crazy. On the other hand, sometimes players that aren't good fits leave to open up roster spots. I don't know if things will change tbh. I think as long as players are able to transfer like they're able to I'm guessing that players will still move as much as they're doing.
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This is why SOME parameters and guard rails need to be put in place. Whether that's contracts with payback clauses, transfer frequency limits, or whatever...something needs to change to keep this gross overcorrection from doing irreparable harm to college sports.
 
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Heathen Raider said:
I think the 1 free transfer rule and then no other transfers allowed unless a Coaching change or that Team drops You from the 105 should be allowed
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I would allow more transfers but after the first one you have to move down 1 level.
FBS to FCS
FCS to DII
 
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Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo said:
...and many of them are about to learn a hard lesson about overestimating their value. One way for this wild west anything goes portal nonsense to be tamped down to some degree is if thousands of these guys don't find a new home and also aren't welcomed black to their old one. They can be invited to pay for college themselves or go get a job...the latter option perhaps best left for those who "ain't come there to play school."
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Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo said:
...and many of them are about to learn a hard lesson about overestimating their value. One way for this wild west anything goes portal nonsense to be tamped down to some degree is if thousands of these guys don't find a new home and also aren't welcomed black to their old one. They can be invited to pay for college themselves or go get a job...the latter option perhaps best left for those who "ain't come there to play school."
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This is the new reality with the transfer portal. We hear about a lot of the successes, but for each Travis Hunter or Cam Ward, there are hundreds of college kids who have no way to pay for college who give up their scholarships looking for better opportunities that aren't there.

Transfer portal is perfect for players like Jaz Patterson - a B1G quality RB who just was not going to get playing time his senior year at his current B1G school, so is taking an opportunity to play at another B1G school. It's also good for players who have developed while at a lower level and want to be able to play at a higher level at the end of their college careers, perhaps to make themselves more visible to NFL scouts (Gronowski).

I don't particularly like this trend of players who are stars on a P-4 team transferring to another P-4 team to try to be a winner, but that won't change.

And of course I hate all these players getting left out in the cold. I know that they are "adults," but 19-22 year old kids being given bad advice and losing out on perhaps the best thing they'll ever have in their lives is such a crying shame....
 
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Heathen Raider said:
I think the 1 free transfer rule and then no other transfers allowed unless a Coaching change or that Team drops You from the 105 should be allowed
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Cap nil by year. So if you transfer you can only make x. Will limit some of the free agency aspect and allow kids who just aren’t a fit/ wanting playing time look for a new home. But it won’t be just guys looking for a payday
 
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Anychawk said:
Cap nil by year. So if you transfer you can only make x. Will limit some of the free agency aspect and allow kids who just aren’t a fit/ wanting playing time look for a new home. But it won’t be just guys looking for a payday
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Can't do it. You telling a kid he can't make money outside? Limiting his earning potential? Need to make them employees with 4 year contracts and unlimited outside NIL not paid by the school.
 
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HawksRule73

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Anychawk said:
Cap nil by year. So if you transfer you can only make x. Will limit some of the free agency aspect and allow kids who just aren’t a fit/ wanting playing time look for a new home. But it won’t be just guys looking for a payday
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Can't cap anything at this point. Supreme Court made it clear that, absent a collective bargaining agreement, schools/NCAA can't have rules in place that limit or hinder an athlete's ability to make money.
 
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HawksRule73 said:
Can't cap anything at this point. Supreme Court made it clear that, absent a collective bargaining agreement, schools/NCAA can't have rules in place that limit or hinder an athlete's ability to make money.
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Miami has $40 million to spend on next years team.
 
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HawksRule73 said:
Can't cap anything at this point. Supreme Court made it clear that, absent a collective bargaining agreement, schools/NCAA can't have rules in place that limit or hinder an athlete's ability to make money.
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Are you referring to Alston? Cause that is an anti trust case and in fact the word nil doesn’t appear in the 13,000 word decision

nil is about publicity which is covered by state law and there is no federal regulations. So no the Supreme Court has not made it clear.
 
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Anychawk said:
Are you referring to Alston? Cause that is an anti trust case and in fact the word nil doesn’t appear in the 13,000 word decision

nil is about publicity which is covered by state law and there is no federal regulations. So no the Supreme Court has not made it clear.
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Good luck with that. Again, absent some sort of collective bargaining, there's no way you're going to be able to have some nebulous entity "put a cap on NIL". Who's setting the cap? By your admission, it's supposedly covered by state law, so how are you going to have some sort of cap that applies to all 50 states? Again, there's going to have to be some sort of collective bargaining agreement put in place for college football as a whole....that's the only way any sort of "cap" is going to be able to be instituted.
 
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HawksRule73 said:
Good luck with that. Again, absent some sort of collective bargaining, there's no way you're going to be able to have some nebulous entity "put a cap on NIL". Who's setting the cap? By your admission, it's supposedly covered by state law, so how are you going to have some sort of cap that applies to all 50 states? Again, there's going to have to be some sort of collective bargaining agreement put in place for college football as a whole....that's the only way any sort of "cap" is going to be able to be instituted.
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Ok so it is possible?

Which goes against what you wrote wrongly about Alston and how you 'can't cap anything.' Its my idea and why not likely it is possible and the easiest answer to all of this.
 
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SB_SB said:
There needs to be contracts for at least 1 year. That would keep teams from going after existing players until the contact is up.
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I think contracts that dictate a player has to play for a particular school for a particular amount of time makes them essentially an employee, which no school wants to do…
 
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