re: Is a lockout actually what college sports needs?

Lol no

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but the transfer portal is the only one that can be easily fixed.

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Not really.

Initially the rule was a pause on the 1 year transfer penalty because of the cancelation of many seasons in 20-21. Then it quickly changed to a "1 free transfer" rule. Almost immediately, that was challenged by AGs essentially on behalf of guys who had transferred 2x and didn't want to sit out a year (most notably the UNC WR and WVU basketball players). The players won and now there are no penalties for transferring.

The NCAA has tried to limit the freedom of transferring since stupidly letting the genie out of the bottle in 2020. They've lost at every step.

I'd love a lockout. And a reset.

Let the players that want to earn money playing sportsball figure out their own league. Let colleges find athletes from among the students there to earn a degree.

I'd support the shite out of the first school to take a stand and step away from this lunacy.

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Second: why? Why does NIL amount bother people so much?

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If you cap annual NIL compensation, it stops the bidding war that schools get into for players.

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Implement a max for per annum player NIL compensation as well as a cap for program NIL spend, make players sit out a year if they want to transfer, and this shite goes away.

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Agreed.

After that we can focus on lowering healthcare costs by capping CEO and doctor pay!!

Make a minor league system for NFL and NBA. I get that NBA has the G-league, but it's a joke. Maybe I just don't follow it as closely, but baseball doesn't seem to have the crazy transfer problem. Sure you have some swapping for money and of course kids going to bigger schools for more exposure, but the sport seems to be doing just fine.
Let NFL teams draft and pay directly out of high school. If you want to set a rule you can't play in the NFL until 20 for "player safety," then fine, but these baws are playing against grown arse men in college anyway as freshmen. Every team gets their own minor league team for development. Set up a rule similar to baseball's rule 5 draft where after 3 or 4 years any team can make a claim so you can't just stockpile talent forever. College sports has basically turned into the minor leagues anyway, so let's let them stop pretending to play school and get paid.
Yeah, college football will have a quality drop-off. But you'll get to see kids who actually want to be there or are playing for a shot to prove they can go professional, rather than the ones waiting their 3 years and are only at school because they have to be and because their current campus was the highest bidder.
You can do it for the WNBA too I guess but let's be honest those ladies will get paid more in 4 years or college than their entire pro career.

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I’m all for players getting paid but who decided to just make it a free for all with unlimited NIL & transfers??

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The NCAA did it to themselves. They could have faced reality and implemented new rules to allow limited player compensation (which the players would have gladly accepted because Pandora's Box had not yet been opened) before the Supreme Court decided the case. Instead they decided to fight to the bitter end and when they (foreseeably) lost, they threw their hands up, said frick you, and made it a free for all which led to the mess we're in now.

Things would get worse. Making thousands of teenagers workers with lawyers, Unions and agents.
Yeah. Good times.

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Intresting proposel. Counter argument, how can you keep the same schools from getting all the talent? Do the victors not go the spoils? Why punish a team that build there program to the top only to say "youve had enough, someone elses turn now bud" doesnt seem very fare and sounds very communist if you ask me.

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You can do it for the same reasons that the NFL put the salary cap in place so that the richest franchises can’t just buy up all the players and win every year.

It’s better for more people overall if you have a competitive sport because it makes the sport more interesting and more popular. Once again, see the NFL.

Also, there’s nothing new about capitalism having some regulations and constraints in place for the betterment of everyone. It stops a lot of abuse by the big players in the market, and it actually allows free capitalism to continue to exist and to function well.

Sometimes when big companies take over a market, they try to create monopolies by imposing barriers to entry and squashing competition. This makes it so that competition is reduced and that particular free capitalist market can no longer function. Regulations basically put some guide rails on the free market in order to allow fair competition to continue to happen, which is always better for consumers. When companies have to compete against each other, it encourages innovation and efficiency. This produces better products and better prices for consumers. It’s why we break up monopolies in America.

These same economic concepts can be applied to college athletics.

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The people you’d be seeking to come to some sort of compromise with are teenagers who don’t even the legal capacity to agree to terms.

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There aren’t many 17 year olds in major college football…

This is why to do it. The players need to play college football more than the major colleges need to have teams.