NIU head coach Thomas Hammock sounds off on losing so many guys in the transfer portal

My man.

What every G6 program has to deal with now because of this bullshite.

NIL by itself? Fine.

But this no sit transfer portal makes it impossible for a coach like him to build real consistency in a roster.

I know people will call me crazy for this but if I was the coach of a MAC level team I would make all the recruits sign a four year legally binding contract to be at the school... that means you are on scholarship for all four years even if you suck and you will graduate unless you break certain rules. After you graduate you can go play a different sport at a different school if you want. Loyalty is as good as dead.

In 40 years our country is gonna have abunch of broke people wanting to retire... lol because they had 30 jobs in 40 years.

One of the first times I've heard the coach mention the parents/family..

Honestly I think that's the biggest problem here -- a kid is perfectly content starting at NIU or wherever, but mom and boyfriend and his friends from high school are in his ear telling him to go get that bag!

Then goes sit the bench at a P4 school for $25k and have those same people with their hand out wanting some cash

I understand the logic behind compensating the players, but I always get stuck on the fact that every single college athlete voluntarily chooses to participate. If you don’t want to play for “free” then don’t.

It’s so disingenuous to act like tuition, fees, etc. isn’t enough compensation for something you chose to do knowing full well what the rules are. Also ignores that just those things come with the opportunity of a lifetime.

Instead, those opportunities will continue to dwindle for more and more kids so that the elite can get paid a couple years earlier. The same kids who would have eventually made the millions in the old system.

I guess everything gets ruined eventually and it’s usually because of greed.

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Why not?

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Because not a single fricking kid is signing a 4 year contract and you won’t have a team.

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It would be very frustrating to recruit a guy for a couple years, have a great freshman season and then bam off to Michigan State to be a backup.

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Or to Eastern Michigan to learn from a Knigga. Seriously though, it sucks for these Non-P5 schools where you never know if a kid you recruit is just using the experience as a stepping stone to another school a year or two years out.

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Then goes sit the bench at a P4 school for $25k

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question, is every FBS school allowed to pay what they can afford for players now? or are certain things only available to the P4?

Coaches: "The NIL system is broken. Kids switching schools so often is chaos."

Same coaches who leave their coaching position for one that pays more:

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But this no sit transfer portal makes it impossible for a coach like him to build real consistency in a roster.

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I believe this will be the next big change. I can see a 1 transfer with a no sit rule but after that (there could/should be some exceptions) the player would have to sit.