re: All you that hate NIL, transfers, etc. how do you not see the hypocrisy you're displaying?

The Rant plays host to some of the lowest IQ users this site has to offer. It’s the minority for sure but it can be glorious.

I am all for capitalism, but there should be some common sense rules to protect the sport as well. What those are exactly needs to be worked out.

Some ideas...

The transfer portal should be dead once fall practice starts until some date close to the Spring Semester starting. Players can't go immediately to another school anyway so no need to have that distraction or temptation during the season. If you want to quit on your team, that is just fine. Just keep the portal closed.

Players should have to sit a year like they did before if they transfer. Schools are committing resources to the kids in the form of a roster spot, tuition, room and board, training etc. There must be some sort of penalty if you bail. Would we be ok with teams cutting players a month into the year and pulling their scholarship and kicking them out of school? Of course not. There must be some sort of mutual agreement for the betterment of the sport.

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frick you all for ruining college football. Go watch the nfl if you want this shite

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You are waaay off on this comment.

The NFL does a much better job at maintaining a competitive landscape with the draft, salary cap, etc.

There are zero protections built into today's college game. As such, you have teams that will simply buy the players that are the best.

Even with recruiting out of high school, there was a legitimate skill involved in identifying which players would transition into elite college players.

This is different. In this world, teams that identify and successfully recruit those talents reap no rewards because the teams with the most money will simply outbid everyone else after it becomes apparent someone is elite.

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The kids are finally able to get paid off their likeness.

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This has nothing to do with likeness. This is purely pay for play.

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Anyone who equates anything to do with the NCAA and college athletics as "the free market" is a moron not worthy of debate.

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They are free to make money off their name, image and likeness. Just like any other college student. Why should their be restrictions? Honestly, y’all sound like a bunch of commie bootlickers

frick the nfl. I don’t care or want any of it in college football. Did I stutter

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Sounds like something a LOSER would say

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There is a middle ground.

Those boo-hooing about the "loss of amateur athletics" are missing the boat completely. College football LONG ago stopped being a "scholarly extra-curricular" activity and became a multi-million dollar business. For a long time the only people in the business model who weren't being fully compensated for their work was the players. The school generated millions in revenue via ticket sales, TV contracts, bowl tie in's, etc. Coaches' salaries continue to rise at astronomic levels. The people who are now angry out NIL are the ones pretending college football isn't a big entertainment business.

However, the NFL has shown parity can be really good for the game as a whole. Could NFL certain NFL players make more if there was no salary cap? Absolutely. But the parity is what keeps more people interested as opposed to sports like the NBA and MLB where a handful of teams are the ones that accumulate, through big spending, all the best talent. The thing that keeps the smaller market teams somewhat competitive in that scenario is they can develop young talent and hang on to it for at least some period of time because of a contract between the player and team. As it stands now in CFB any player can automatically become a "free agent" at any time.

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I said in the same post that Tari Eason is not a quitter. That was an upgrade for him

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Glad that you make the decisions on what’s an upgrade for an individual. So all those 5 stars that are choosing A&M this year are downgrading themselves right?

You guys who say it’s ruining college football - ruining it for who? The fans? Probably not ruining it for the players. If it is for you, take your viewership and dollars and don’t support it. But you nor the masses will. You’re hooked.

And all these guys sympathetic to the coaches for having to manage - buck up. You get multi million dollar contracts and buyouts - deal with some of this stuff.

And to the poster who said you can’t use the capitalist argument, that’s BS. In our capitalist society we encourage people to make money off themselves or their work, as opposed to just be given a handout. The market dictates your value and more power to these players. There will be a market reset at some point.

The reason you guys are saying it’s ruining it for you is because it’s not benefiting LSU at this time. If BK brings in strong transfers and signs people because we get our NIL in order, the comments will be quiet and you’ll support whoever comes in.

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So what are the players buyout costs??? Because coaches have consequences for leaving before the end of their commitment. What's the players consequence? It used to be sitting a year

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So a coach not honoring say a 5-10 year deal is the same as a player not accepting their next yearly scholarship

That’s some mental gymnastics

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The market dictates your value

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Since the NCAA was so flawed and unfair, why didn’t the athletes just take their chances elsewhere in the market en masse?