re: How to fix NIL and yearly transfers.. Your thoughts

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They might agree to a deal, but the actual contracts are per semester/NIL window so the school doesn’t lose money if a player leaves.

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The "school" is not necessarily losing any money....since the school is not paying the player. But no business person wants to obligate themselves to pay a kid for 3 years, only to have the kid leave after one to play for another school and still be entitled to that payment.

Again, most of these proposed "solutions" lack a basic understanding of what NIL actually is.

Practically it is "pay for play"
Legally it is not.

Start a new College Football League. Maybe 60 teams or so. All players are subject to the same rules and binding “contract” obligations at all schools. Players may need to be classified as “employees”.

First year of eligibility is worth $xk in NIL payments, payable at start of second year. Second year $2xk payable start of year three. Year three $3xk payable start of fourth year. Year four $4xk payable after all bowls are complete. Actual $(x) shall be determined by the Association on an annual basis. All NIL deals are administered by the University. If at anytime a game eligible player fails to play or remain with the team, including bowls, there will be no payment for that year.

You can leave the school at anytime to go elsewhere. If you go to another school in the League you go back to year one financially but, are still limited to four years total of eligibility within the League. You are always free to leave and go outside the League for whatever you can get. No restraint of trade.

In exchange for payments described in the contract you agree to provide your NIL as directed by the University. By contract you are bound to be a representative of the University and may not represent any other business or association for any form of compensation.

This provides some level of reasonable compensation, makes all schools financially even in recruiting, and allows a player to transfer for development, family, coaching change, and other reasons, but not just money.

Basically you can model it after how professional soccer works.

Small clubs will develop talent and then the big wealthy clubs come in and buy the player’s rights in the transfer market, but have to pay a negotiated amount in “transfer fee” to said smaller club, and then still have to pay the player.

This way a smaller to mid size cfb program can get really good at developing talent and be financially rewarded when an sec or big10 school comes in and buys their best player, and continue to reinvest into themselves.

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You simply cannot keep a free individual student from changing schools. It is illegal and wrong

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they can change schools and be students all they want.


doesn’t mean they have to be given a scholarship, roster spot, and eligibility in a Div 1 sport.

Give one transfer, anything after that they have to sit a yr

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It may sound dumb but these kids want to be payed as employees like coaches, so shouldn’t they play by the same rules..

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but they aren’t.

they’re signing contracts with third parties. State Farm can’t dictate Patrick Mahomes’s contract details with the Chiefs.

It's going to end in a collective bargaining agreement. All of the fiction needs to disappear. The players are neither students nor amateurs. They are professional athletes.

To me the most confounding part is going to be having state owned professional sporting teams. It used to be that people pearl clutched that the highest paid state employee was a football coach. Wait until the back-up center makes more than the Commissioner of Agriculture.

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Put 1 yr sit out penalty onto transfers.

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will never happen since coaches don't have to sit out when they move...

Probably will take an act of congress to fix this mess. Maybe set up the NCAA to make rules about member schools and who can do what.