re: These kids better lawyer up

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Jimbo Fisher gets a $100 Million dollar deal.

Fans: Wow That's alot of money, but I love CFB

Ed Orgeron gets a pay raise $9Mil/yr

Fans: Wow That's alot of money, he won us a title and I love CFB

Transfer Portal and NIL

Fans: Oh thats just unfair and will ruin college football

I remember when Bowl games were named after regional products or commodities. Corporations entered college sports longtime ago.

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Dear Idiot -

Try to fire up your few remaining functional synapses. Coaches and players are not equivalent. At all. Look at the NFL. Players can only switch teams under carefully defined free agency periods. Why? Because unfettered movement of players each off-season would make it virtually impossible to manage rosters, would degrade the on-field product, and would ultimately result in declining popularity and - wait for it - declining revenue, the very revenue the players need to get paid in the first instance. CFB is no different. Unchecked transfers will undermine the product on the field and erode the popularity of the game substantially over time. In turn, that will erode revenue from the fans - the very money that these players are clamoring for. You have to protect the integrity of the game, otherwise the short-term benefits to one generation of players destroys the benefit to future generations.