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Bama, Georgia, Ohio State and Clemson may be responsible for changing transfer rules.

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  • UgahikeUgahike Posts: 70 ✭✭✭ Junior

    Just wait till other schools get the word out by means of behind the back hearsay . All the hard work some coaches put in will be wasted on recruiting. Does this mean a letter or intent signed will be worthless. Can they leave after spring game if they think they want get playing time. This is a huge mistake.

  • QvoxQvox Posts: 436 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 2020

    This isn't going to increase the number 4 and 5 star players available. There are a limited number of talented players available each year, and those talented players tend to want to play for successful programs.

    Think about it, there are roughly about 1,100,00 high school football players in the US, about 10,000 scholarships players in Div 1 football at any time. Out of those roughly 10k scholarship players roughly 250 will be drafted into the NFL each year.

    If a 4 or 5 star player only wanted to make sure he started for a team, pick any number of non-elite teams that's not stacked with talented players. They'd be guaranteed to start their freshman year.

    I don't see this one action leveling the playing field dramatically. Elite players will still want to play with elite programs. The playing field was leveled when the NCAA enforced scholarship limits, and cracked down on recruiting violations.

  • bmauldinbmauldin Posts: 4,807 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    This works both ways.

    UGA will be impacted, but you better believe they will impact.

    think about how much effort they put in recruiting... do you think if a player can transfer in to play for the top programs that they won’t.

    they get more exposure and can win a natty without sitting out.

  • corai3corai3 Posts: 667 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    If a kids wants to transfer in conference, then they should have to sit a year. If a kid wants to transfer out of conference, then let them play.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 2020

    My biggest point I try to make in all of this is how some think sitting out a year is the end of the world. People act like this is detrimental to their rights and future or such crap. 🙄

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    It's a good idea to attach some sort of cost to a school that poaches their competition's players. But the actual price tag of one players scholarship to a big time program is to insignificant to sway any behavior of that sort.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I kind of wish they would. It'd clean up our sport a lot if they took the ones that are only interested in getting paid and playing. I guess we'd lose some talent but I'm not sure if it'd be noticeable in the grand scheme.

  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 2020

    As a fan of one of the bigger programs in college football, I'm well aware that this would likely help UGA more than hurt. But there are bigger things at play here. I think turning college football into a dirty mercenary league would absolutely destroy the support it receives. It would drag the entire thing down into the mud. Fans won't care about players that have no loyalty what so ever to the program. Do not underestimate what this would do to the sport overall. Do not think college football is to big to fail.

  • law_dawg35law_dawg35 Posts: 1,550 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    If that happend then the NCAA would have to start allowing the schools to pay the highly ranked players. They would be forced to.

  • dgd829dgd829 Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    The immediate transfer does nothing but help everyone.

    Kids that aren’t gonna play and only be distractions off the field because of it won’t have to sour in the program and cause drama behind the scenes.

    Now Kirby has the ability to pluck a kid from a lesser team 2-3 years in that wants to win a championship to replace him.

    If he can’t find anybody, then he has surely already recruited over the problem child, and address the need that way and then just take BPA.

  • QvoxQvox Posts: 436 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I completely agree.

    I'm not a fan of professional sports. I know the players don't care where they land, hell the teams aren't even loyal to the cities they're located in. At least with college football I know most of the kids ARE playing for their school and their love of the game. Because most college football players will not become professional football players. Most really are student athletes. They're playing for the school that they'll graduate from.

  • dgd829dgd829 Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    How is Clemson responsible for changing the transfer rule? Nobody transfers in or out of there.

  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Read the OP. Never said anything about players transfering in and out of Clemson

  • LowcountryDawg21LowcountryDawg21 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited February 2020

    I like the idea Rusty Mansell put out- allow one free transfer, but you can’t use it until after your sophomore season. Kids who are frustrated freshman may sing a different tune after another twelve months.

    I don’t think this will be as big a deal as many think, if for no other reason than the entrance to the portal seems quite a bit bigger than the exit. Will it have an impact? Of course? Will it crater the sport? I doubt it.

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