Have we discussed how putrid NIL and the portal is for CFB yet?

Give it time.

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Honestly we just need the right leadership behind the program and we will win. We won’t sign everyone we want but there’s plenty of talent to be a consistent winner.

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Without some kind of loyalties, it’s hot garbage.

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The portal has been absolute success for CFB

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horrible take.

The concept of the portal is fine - it's the "immediately play" portal, combined with NIL, that's killing the game.

Players everywhere put themselves up for sale in the portal every year, knowing they can leave and immediately play.

If we went back to the mandatory 1-year waiting period after a transfer (except a grad transfer), that would help a lot.

But now, college football is just a pro league, with mercenary players. It's actually worse than the NFL, because at least those players are bound by contracts and can't jump from team to team every year.

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Funny I don’t see Texas, Oregon, and UGA fans complaining about it. The portal has been absolute success for CFB.

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Imagine if the NFL had open free agency every single year for every single player with no salary cap. It would be terrible. The football won't be as good period. College football is weakening it's product. Teams won't be a good. Players won't play as hard.

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Players everywhere put themselves up for sale in the portal every year, knowing they can leave and immediately play.

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Way more players enter the portal for a second chance or a better opportunity than put themselves up for sale. Collins and Ibetta aren’t putting themselves up for sale.

Blame the ncaa and school presidents

First, people have to change there perception of college football. One that is clouded by the fog of nostalgia. College football long stopped being simply a scholastic extracurricular and has, for decades now, become a multi-million (now billion) dollar entertainment business. In that respect it is no different than the NFL. How does the NFL and its franchises generate revenue? (Primarily) through ticket/gameday sales, massive media rights (TV) contracts, and licensing contracts to companies who want to sell any and all sorts of team branded products. How do college programs/conferences generate revenue?...in the EXACT SAME WAY.

NIL was coming whether anyone liked it or not. That was the inevitable byproduct of college sports becoming a huge business. Instead of accepting that reality the NCAA (and schools) chose to continue to fight a losing battle and wasn't prepared when NIL finally became "legal".

NIL was change enough. However, what fully created the unfettered perpetual free agency marketplace was the NCAA did was millions of business/people did in 2020...grossly and illogically overreacted with ZERO forethought about the potential future implications of their actions.
There had been some peripheral fights about transfer restrictions (notably efforts to stop coaches from restricting players from transferring to certain schools). But by and large both players and schools were accepting of the application of general transfer restrictions (including the one year sit out period). It was only when the NCAA decided to remove the sit-out "penalty" that they fully let the toothpaste out of the tube, never to return.

Maybe the transfer restriction changes would have eventually come about through the court system (in fact, they probably would have). But the NCAA expedited that process because..."we were all in this together!"

This has been one of the most exciting football seasons in recent memory if you look at it unbiased

The portal and NIL work

LSU needs to figure it out

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First, people have to change there perception of college football.

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I don’t have to change shite I just won’t watch.

Some of us became college football fans FOR THE VERY FACT that it wasn’t the NFL. This is even worse than the NFL. Just a bunch of billionaires buying championships for their schools. High fives all around.