It’s going to seem ridiculous this year with granting players a 5th but..

Punctuation. Paragraphs. Use them.

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You used one comma and zero periods in your diatribe That is impressive.

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Must be off his period right now.

I used the voice option to post this but this not English class we’re making post about sports it’s not that deep for me to worry about if I used commas correctly lol smh but go tigers

It sounds like the LSU coaching staff has already looked at the list of nearly 2000 players that could potentially come back. They are ahead of this.

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I used the voice option to post this but this not English class we’re making post about sports it’s not that deep for me to worry about if I used commas correctly lol smh but go tigers

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Respectfully, we're not hearing you speak, are we? You can insert a period when using voice-to-text.

I'm now curious - how did you include the lower case "lol" and "smh" using the voice option?

Love you.

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NIL being "capped" simply isn't going to happen. Same for any sort of "salary cap" (at least in the foreseeable future) or transfer restrictions (like the old sit out a year rule). The one thing the NCAA MAY be able to control is eligibility

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I think the only eligibility rule the NCAA can enforce is requiring the athlete be enrolled in school.
NIL limits, salary caps, transfer rules are all a violation of free trade. This is now about antitrust and labor laws. Only two things can empower the NCAA and neither look likely to happen.

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The kid I feel sorry for is the one who is told he has made the 105-player cut and is on the team, but is then told "Sorry, Pyburn is going to take your spot on the roster."

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I made that exact same point in the post in the other thread too. I’ll go ahead and post it over here too. But be aware, it’s long. (And so is my post).

Yeah, as an objective fan of college football and taking off my LSU fandom, this particular absurdity is too much for me. I think it’s worse—way worse—than the Chambliss thing. I just can’t get past the image of Pyburn in a Bucs uniform having 2 sacks in an official NFL preseason game, and then eventually winding up back in college. It’s gross.

But I’m just using Pyburn because I actually saw it and know him. The same would go for any other guys who played in an NFL preseason game. That’s just a line I don’t think you should be able to cross and come back from. Think about how pissed off some of young college players who have been busting their asses all offseason, all training camp, doing everything they can to earn a spot in a rotation who finally do, are elated and proud of their hard work, then right before the season some 23-year-old who’s been in an NFL program practicing and playing against NFL guys, gets cut because of numbers one day, and the next is in the 2-deep rotation at your school, bumping you off and out to where you have to wait another year to try to do it all over again.

I’m not taking about the Princewills or Rosses, but the Carpenters, Cobbins, Braikers, Hendersons. Or the guys at the back end of rosters that will be “asked” to go to JUCO for a year and come back to open a roster spot, knowing that roster spot for next year is anything but guaranteed. I just think this will have some unintended consequences that will be bad for the sport overall, and some of the human beings actually affected.

I know some will say, “frick them, they’re getting paid now, deal with it” because for whatever reason, there’s a significant group of people who are under the impression that all college athletes are suddenly millionaires because of NIL. Which is ridiculous.

But I wouldn’t blame Pyburn or any other player in his situation for coming back and taking advantage of this. Not would I blame Kiffin or any other coach who welcomes them back. They kind of have to. I’d bet the majority of college coaches don’t like this. Just too much disruption right before the season. But Lane, for example, can’t not do it if his competitors are doing it. Him taking a moral, “in the best interest of college football” stance would be dereliction if Golding or any other coach of an SEC or P4 program weren’t doing the same.

Of the 15 or so players mentioned, you’ve got Pyburn and 3 Ole Miss guys. Could we use them? Of course? Would they make us better? Obviously. (Unless it causes locker room issues, which is very real possibility—another unintended consequence). Do we NEED them? No. But we also can’t afford them all winding up at Ole Miss. So you almost have to take them to block the other schools from getting better as much as you do in order to make your own team better.

Again, this all just feels gross. But I don’t even know who to blame. Don’t blame the players who get to continue their football careers back in college and get paid to do so. Don’t blame the coaches who are forced to do it in order to not have a competitive disadvantage. Don’t blame the NCAA—remember, these players are still ineligible per the NCAA rules—whose authority has been deemed feckless by court after court after court. (They did frick up royally on the timing of the announcement of 5 for 5, though). Not sure I even blame the courts, who are just ruling based on their interpretation of current law. I don’t know. I guess it just is what it is. But I hate it.

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Don’t blame the NCAA—remember, these players are still ineligible per the NCAA rules—whose authority has been deemed feckless by court after court after court.

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The NCAA knew they were operating what people call a plantation system that was being propped up by some really shaky legal arguments. They’ve known this since at least 1984. This was inevitable unless they got out ahead of it, and they chose not to do anything but rule like a tyrant. The NCAA failed to save themselves from themselves and in the process they destroyed college athletics.