It makes sense but needs an explainer. We only played four games that are Neilsen-rated. SEC Network games don't count. So Alabama has 10 because their 2 SEC network games don't count toward ratings. We have 4 because we only played 4 games that were Neilsen rated (Southern Miss, Arizona State, Georgia, Ole Miss).
How is the transfer portal Sankey's fault? The unlimited transfer rule is the result of the NCAA settling a lawsuit brought by several State AGs, and joined by the DOJ. the writing was on the wall.
The first time someone tries to claw back the unlimited transfers, someone is going to sue (and win) in court and it's not going to have any teeth.
Unfair.**
Someone once told me that it is rare to see an SEC Network game eclipse 1 million, and that most of their games are under 500k. They know this, so they don't want games Neilsen-rated. The Big Ten Network is Neilsen rated.Unfair.**
MSU fans are all cord cutters that stream games and watch replay clips on our favorite social media platforms! There are way more watching MSU games.
Im not arguing semantics or anything, but I dont think there will be legislation naming any particular organization as being the governing authority, unless an actual government agency is established (yikes!!)
There’s nothing in any court ruling at all regarding transfer rules. Everything has centered around players’ rights to NIL compensation, and requisite back pay for them not having that right leading up to now.
The NCAA was not inept. They really didn't want to see things go the way they have. They were right. The courts did this to us, not the NCAA.
I wasn’t even referring to the multiple transfer rule. I was talking about way back in 2021 when they first allowed you to transfer once without sitting out. It never should have even gotten that far without an actual legal decision requiring it. That was the single biggest contributor to this current disaster. Of course, maybe you could go back even further to the exemption for grad transfers.NCAA immediately bows to court order to make transfer athletes immediately eligible to play | Fortune
A coalition of state attorneys general challenged rules that forced athletes that wanted to transfer multiple-times as undergraduates to sit out a season with their new school.fortune.com
This court entered an injunction which led the ncaa to make multiple transfers permanent. Legal experts agree that anything limiting movement would violate anti trust laws
Well then I would say that’s a very incomplete data set.
Not solely his fault, but again I’m not even talking about the unlimited transfer rule. I’m talking about the 2021 rule. Sankey had a platform to resist and influence a conservative approach to all stakeholders on that one. But instead, he embraced it with open arms as he thought there would be a net benefit to the league. And now he’s crying foul that it didn’t turn out that way.
The NCAA was inept in how they handled things BEFORE it escalated. Their inconsistency and draconian policies led to the escalation.
There was, or was about to be, a lawsuit coming at that time, too. All of this was due to lawsuits. So you're wrong in that regard, the NCAA only did that in response to legal pressure.
Yep instead of seeing the writing on the wall they doubled down with the stupidity that was the death penalty. That said, it scared people into submission for a while, but once that trickle started (Ed O'Bannon), it didn't take long to become a waterfall.
“Legal pressure” and actual court rulings are two very different things.
I don't care enough to argue about this or look it up. But if you dig deep enough, I think you'll see that it's all the same. Without it, they don't do it. Everything became more pressurized after COVID. It was coming.
Initially, I think it would be amazing. Ohio State, Bama, Georgia, Michigan… let’s face it, those big money schools have been running pro franchises for decades, and while they may have the largest fan bases, I think a lot of people are overselling how much they’d be missed from college football as a whole for the average fan. Sure, it’d be a big media hit, but it also might make college football fun again for a lot of people.
Just unwind it into division II of the NFL. Play the games on campus. Half kidding but who knows where this is headed.
They continually cut off their nose to spite their face.
The courts are totally responsible for where we are now. None of this stuff would have ever happened without the courts being involved.
If the NCAA had come up with reasonable rules for paying players & easing up the limitations in transfers 15 years ago, these lawsuits may have never happened.
The courts got involved because the NCAA didnt do enough, and soon enough, to keep players from feeling like the courts were the only way forward.
The NCAA did not want to go down the road you are describing at all. There really wasn’t much to negotiate about.
The NCAA did not want to pay players, or have unlimited transfers. That’s what y'all are missing.
They will need more to get national interest. College football has always had such a large following because each Great team had a whole conference of people behind it whether they said so or not. Notre Dame survives as an independent because of it's the Catholics. No other College team has that kind of national branding or especially international branding.
It's absolutely the NCAA's fault. They did nothing while it imploded around them. The reason they sat on their hands is the Universities do not want to make athletes employees. That happens and all of a sudden they liabilities they don't have right now.
I'm not one to spend time defending the NCAA, but O'Bannon's lawsuit was in 2009. A ruling was finally made in 2014 that resulted in small player payments plus the NCAA's adoption of an increased stipend for athletes. Then, it was a full 5 years after that when Newsom and California blew the top off of everything by passing state law to allow NIL in their state.
Oh my god. THAT IS THE ISSUE! THAT IS WHAT I AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN SAYING.
I’m not missing it. But what they should have realized was is was coming one way or the other. They chose the hard way & are paying the price.
They’ve already scavenged all the want from the Big 12. That’s what’s making that conference work better than the ACC. Those schools have nowhere else to go. ACC has about 4 that can & will leave when the grant of rights expires.
