re: Perspective on Howard

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Nope. Not until they do the same with coaches. Coaches leave for better opportunities all the time. Make rules making them sit out a year too then.

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Coaches and players have completely different risk exposure especially in college football. Your livliehood is dependent on those around you as well as your performance. If you don’t perform, your potential earnings will suffer. Take the past two LSU coaches - they both won championships, then subsequently proved they could not run a program and can no longer find work. I realize to an extent, this is true for players, but they ultimately get paid based on their potential, regardless of their college teams’ performance.

Further, the coaches terms of contract termination are negotiated.

The way I see it, the players want money because the sport makes money - but they want no part of the risk side. Same thing in Pro sports but college isn’t nearly as evolved, pro sports have unionized. The way it is currently set up, a player can sign with a team based on an independent entity paying an NIL deal, and the kid can bolt on the team with zero performance on the NIL required. The money is not ultimately coming from the primary revenue source or earner (the fans or school). It’s a completely broken and inefficient system.

My thoughts exactly! Well said!

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I love how all the idiots feel like they need to make THEIR thread about this.

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Pure narcissism

I wish WH well at his next stop. Wherever it is ...I hope they have a strength and conditioning coach that can put 10-15 lbs on him ..if not he's gonna get hurt playing big boy football with his current physique! Needs to go to TCU and eat some of that beef from the Fort Worth Stockyards!

I’m sorry you are a communist and hate capitalism.

Playing football is every bit as much of a profession as coaching is. Sorry you can’t understand that.

These schools deserve no protection from players leaving. That’s like saying your job deserves protection from you leaving. If these schools have a problem with recruits leaving then either the school itself has a problem internally or they have a problem with the type of players they are recruiting. They should do better in their evaluation or they should offer more reasons to stay.

Just like with a business. If they have high turnover, they should reevaluate the caliber of employees they hire or look internally as to why these employees are not staying. The fault lies with the institution and the institution only. They don’t get to just get “more protections” just because they are failing as a system.

These players have and deserve all of the power they. That’s how capitalism works. It’s simple supply and demand. For you to want to carve out special rules for one group over another is pure communism.

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bullshite! Schools pay tons of coaches and others to recruit these kids. You don't have a fricking clue what you are talking about.

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Irrelevant. They choose to do this as their business model and they still make millions. They deserve no more protections.

If you don't like it don't reply ahole. Stay in LAFFY YET loserville

Totally different case from players in college. Coaching is a profession, playing college sports isn't. Yes they pay a penalty. Yes, they do get buyouts paid, but they do pay penalties in some contracts. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

You don't think schools pay a ton to recruit these kids? No, you are mistaking college for pro. College kids are not professionals. They aren't. Like that are not.
And I'm pretty sure your company didn't pay a ton of money to get you hired on or have other employees spend countless time getting you to commit to work there. You need to think a little before you spill out your automatic offended replies. Furthermore, college sports has had rules forever. The NCAA is a privately owned entity.

I get it, but that's a typical risk any school faces with any recruit. Both parties go into it with that understanding.
Perhaps my view is different from yours in that I understand this, so when teenagers act like teenagers and change their mind, I don't get bent out of shape and trash the kid. I'm disappointed, yes. But that's where it ends for me.