re: NIL is NOT the evil. The Transfer Portal is the Problem.

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The biggest problem is the Transfer Portal. Unlimited transfers, is the root of evil and makes it impossible to build a roster. It’s created a year to year free agent system.

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It’s worse than that, it’s basically twice a year, December and May. The NFLis a lot more structured than this. Insanity

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Teach these kids what a commitment is, what earning things means, teach them to be accountable and responsible.

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You contradicted the first part of your post with this sentence. Coaches have signed multi-year contracts which they then break and are not the ones who pay the buyout. The new school's boosters pay that, so where is that coach's responsibility?

Something needs to be done about the ability to transfer and be immediately eligible again under all circumstances, but to say kids need to learn accountability when coaches leave at the drop of the hat is ridiculous.

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I'm pretty confident in that position based upon decades of history. There is little to no market demand for minor league football. Just like there is little to no market demand for minor league baseball, the XFL, G-league, etc. Otherwise, those businesses would be generating millions in profit. They aren't.

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A system designed for kids right of HS in football has never existed. That's different. To assume that its a valid comparison is lazy analytics at best.

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I know they want to make as much money as possible playing football. I also know minor league football isn't the way to do that. College football is...as evidenced by the fact of ever increasing NIL deals.

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Your thinking is a bit limited. And again, you don't know what the athlete wants.

When you have die hard fans like myself and so many others I know not having the passion for it we once had, there’s definitely many red flags going forward. I still watch LSU as always, but have cut back my viewing of college football overall dramatically. I definitely don’t follow recruiting like I used to do. What’s the point?

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NIL has its issues and players are going to the highest bidder. While I don’t care for it, it is manageable for college football.

The biggest problem is the Transfer Portal. Unlimited transfers, is the root of evil and makes it impossible to build a roster. It’s created a year to year free agent system.

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1000%.

And its a problem the Universities could fix amongst themselves. Give them one transfer after Freshman year with zero restrictions. After that, it reverts back to the old way.

This isn't sustainable. Its building a new roster almost every year.

I think Dabo has the right idea...just don't play that game.

I agree rules need to be in place.

College football programs require a certain amount of buy-in to develop a culture. The transfer portal is making building a culture nearly impossible. It takes longer than 12 months to do so, and if you have a bunch of kids coming and going at will, the culture just becomes a revolving door.

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HS players can, and do, go straight to minor league baseball and the G-League. Yet neither are lucrative business. Why would football be any different?

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Who said anything about lucrative? Again, entirely different discussion.

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You tell us what the athlete wants

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Having played college and professionally, I'll do just that. They mainly want an opportunity to play. VERY few division I athletes receive NIL. On the FCS levels, even less. NIL is impacting the VERY elite few.

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NIL suggest the want to be paid significantly in exchange for playing football

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The elite few want to be paid "significantly".

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They would be playing football in exchange for pay in a minor league. Only their net income would be less because (1) the salaries would be significantly lower and (2) they would be fully responsible for their every day expenses as opposed to in college where they get the benefit of, at minimum, free room and board.

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I respect your hypothesis, but you could be very wrong. There was a time that this country thought that women weren't smart enough to vote. People would justify that position by the mere fact that they had never voted. NIL is not evil. It is the first major step toward treating players fairly. The elite few are (most likely) paving the way for much needed changes in a system that is very outdated.

The fact that none of you even have a grasp on what NIL actually means is a huge part of the problem. Name,image, and likeness has nothing to do with being paid to come to a school and everything to do with the players who BECOME famous through the sport or school being able to capitalize on that.

It wouild be a lot better if they’d get that straight.

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Both the transfer portal and NIL without significant regulations blows - HARD.

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But wait! Aren't we Republican? Lol

You can’t talk sense to these morons because they’re ignorant of the facts. There will be a new thread about this subject every 2-3 days.