Perpetual free agency

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I been saying that for sometime. The new age of college football is upon us. Can’t be sustainable though. Can it?

A portion of the rant thinks it's all good for college football. Player empowerment, no rules, no regulations, wild west.

You can’t come up with any logical reason to not allow it other than for selfish reasons which are not logical or legitimate.

This is pure capitalism at its finest.

The players are a commodity. They make money for these schools. People are willing to pay them to attend those schools because of the return they get.

You think you should be telling people how much they can or can’t make or telling people how and where to spend their money? How communist is of you.

College players have it better than professionals from the standpoint of lacking a contract to keep them at a place they no longer want to work. Sure, the NIL dollars aren’t as good as a NFL player, but the flexibility to pick up and leave (as long as someone wants you) is unmatched.

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J2thaROC

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Here comes one of my examples now

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Why do you hate capitalism? Are you a communist?

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Guy, your routine is getting old and it has holes like Swiss cheese. First, there is NO SUCH THING as unbridled capitalism. If you are claiming that you are a fricking LIAR! In our economy, there are laws preventing monopolies, underhanded business practices, etc. And even in the pro sports, there are limits...salary caps in football, luxury taxes in baseball, etc. Oh, and BTW, you only state the extremes...capitalism or communism...nothing in between. Why aren't you posting your political dogma on the politics board?

If you think this is above board, altruistic capitalism, you are flat out dumber than a fence post. Oh, and BTW, I assume you believe prostitution should be legal, every drug in the world should be legal, etc right? After all, free enterprise and capitalism right? You took a concept and carried it to the extreme with no regard for rules that govern and limit every business industry in the US.

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Perpetual free agency

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I heard about one guy agreeing to a contract extension and then going to Notre Dame like a week later...

Oh wait that was Mike Denbrock. REGULATE THESE COACHES! He also sat out of the bowl game. Selfish.

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You telling me you wouldn’t take a far better paying job just because your current job of “training you”? If you say you wouldn’t think about taking the better paying job you are a damn liar.

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I think contracts for NIL need to be instituted. If you take the money, you agree to a term. If you bail before your term is ended, you forfeit that money with a penalty.

It's what coaches do, it's what the pros do. If NIL and the transfer portal is to continue, then contracts are the only way to keep the game somewhat respectable.

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And even in the pro sports, there are limits...salary caps in football, luxury taxes in baseball, etc.

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That's because the players and owners have collectively bargained for all of those things. The NFL is monopoly. So is the NBA and MLB. They get around the anti-trust laws by collective bargaining. Otherwise, salary caps and other restrictions imposed by the business would be illegal.

NIL here is nuanced. It's not a pure pay-for-play because the schools/athletic departments are not actually paying players a salary for employment. It's essentially "outside" boosters/collectives agreeing to pay players for use of their NIL...in the event (wink-wink, nod-nod) that player chooses to play for the booster's preferred school. The NIL contracts don't state "we will pay you $_____amount in exchange for you playing for (insert school). They can't.

The pro-leagues are more structured because the actually have an employer/employee relationship. Thus, they can have employment contracts that are paid to the employee directly by the employer. So unless and until there is some sort of collective bargaining between the schools/conferences/NCAA and a players' union, the NIL landscape will continue to be the wild west because almost any measure of control the NCAA tries to assert over NIL will likely be struck down in the courts of violation of anti-trust laws.

The way it probably gets curtailed to some extent is when the boosters get to a point where they are tired of being perpetually fleeced for more and more money by college "free agents" and decide their ROI isn't worth the ever increasing payments.

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There is nothing keeping that from being in the contracts other than players being unwilling to sign them. Any schools NIL collective is more than welcome to implement that.

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The boosters/collectives would be CRAZY for agreeing to long term commitments. The reason is because the NIL contract cannot be tied to the the player playing for a specific school. That would make it a direct pay-for-play contract.

So let's say I'm a wealthy business owner and I want to sign star true freshmen QB to a big NIL deal to lure him to sign with LSU. I can't put in the contract that the deal is only enforceable if he plays for LSU. That's direct pay-for-play. I'm only paying the kid for use of his NIL. His NIL travels wherever he goes. So if I sign him to an NIL deal for 3 years, I owe the terms of that contract...even if he transfers to Alabama after one season. Almost all of the NIL deals are very short in duration to specifically avoid that possibility.