re: Transfer portal policy fix

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Why do people say dumb stuff like this?

Coaches have a pathway to leave written into their contracts. What are they not honoring?
Their “commitment” includes the procedure to leave.

What are you taking about?


Btw currently athletes have no parameters.

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I mean, there are parameters. They’re written in black and white in the NCAA Division 1 Manual.

The difference is just that people don’t agree with the parameters in place for the athletes.

Everybody gets all pissy when someone brings up the coaching argument but it’s not exactly wrong. If players had the same deal structure as coaches, then another school could just pay out the rest of their “contract” (however you want to define that for hypothetical purposes.. scholarship + NIL agreements?) and hire the kid away to be eligible the following year. That doesn’t sound too far removed from where we stand today.

This kind of coaching carousel is somewhat unique to college. In the NFL, teams can’t poach coaches from other teams for a lateral move - unless the current team agrees to allow the coach to interview. There are no such restrictions in CFB, at least not in any form that can actually outright block a coach from taking a job with another team.

I don’t like the immediate transfer eligibility either, but it’s absolutely true that we give college head coaches a pass on the same thing. I don’t really get why people act like it’s completely absurd to bring that disparity up.