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Wait till Saban has his say. Provided he doesn't go to work for ESPN, that is. If he does that....they'll shut him up.
It's simple, you set up a minor league of professional football for those in it for the money and restore college football to where it was before NIL and the portal. College football will thrive like it always has even with less talented players. Those in it for the money will be happy cause they are getting paid to play football.
Mark from Canton
Lol....there's no such thing as "Investigative Reporting" anymore.
Today....the act of "Investigative Reporting"....means, you checked Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok for the latest rumor....I mean "news". Whatever's "trending"....must be true and accurate, right?.
Lol....Reporting in today's media amounts to an "ask the audience" cheat, on that gameshow...."Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".
Otherwise....we would've gotten an honest take, on why UGA was eliminated from CFP Contention. I guarantee you, it had nothing to do with "who the best 4 teams" were. And, more to do with leaving FSU "out" and putting Texas and Bama "in"....in hopes of a rematch in the Natty Game.
Also....Saban's farewell....thanks to...ESPN's hype machine. For DIV1 CFB to survive...ESPN must be neutralized.
IMO....You can't place CFB on an island with respect to all the other sports....team & individual.
I guarantee you...gymnasts, Basketball Players, Hockey Players, swimmers, etc.....all, train equally hard...attend classes...worry about money and travel. All the things, football players worry about....are concerns of every Student-Athlete.
If you pay Football Players [student-athletes]....then, EVERYBODY should get paid.
Consider this.....there are thousands of High School Football players, seeking College homes, every year. Most, just want an education and are paying for it with a skill set. Great for them.
Only a minute, infinitesimal number of players will move on to have successful NFL Careers. Why pay the rest? If you don't want to play "cause it's fun"....then, DON'T PLAY. Get a job!....and, pay for school...like everybody else. That's the way I see it.
Like when the USFL Stole Walker from Dooley with a lot of fast talk and big money.
Lol....we need a USFL for some of these Prima Donna's. Kids will do the darned'est things, when you wave a stack of "$100" bills under their nose....Lol.
Pay them to play, but pay the same across the board for each school. That takes away the desire to sign with school A versus school B. Take away the bidding war for players. If there is no cash incentive to attend Auburn vs UGA then that makes it more about the kids heart and not his financial considerations. Make all contracts transparent and public.
Set up some type of advisery board that checks into under the table cash or cars. When you find evidence of such come down hard on the player and the school. WIth Social Media today most kids can't keep too many secrets. Lets say they lose their NIL deal for a year and their scholarship because they took an extra 100k or a Bimmer whatever under the table(ouch!) and the school loses something of consequence too if it can be proven the school had knowldge of it and didn't report it. If the school had no knowledge then give the school a pass. If proven the school helped broker the deal then they are out of playoffs for 2-3 years. Accountability.
The transfer portal needs to be only available for players who have completed 2 seasons with a school. Enough time to deciide if they like the school and if they are in a position to play in their 3rd year. Assuming their1st year is a redsirt year, they will still have 3 years of eligibilty left.
THe transfer opening and closing has to be of shorter duration say 10 days max sometime during the spring. Somehow the incentive to change schools need to be minimized. again it's mainly money driven currently.
For any Bowl game to mean anything then the players need to honor their contracts/scholarships in order to collect their NIL. Maybe hold back a significant amount of their NIL say 25% until after the season is over. If they don't play and it's not due to injuries It would stand to reason that they weren't honoring or living up to the agreement.
As of right now the players who enter the transfer portal are mainly seeking money and not playing time. Entienne isn't seeking more playing time. Neither is Bond and so many others. It's about the money, more of it. THat's whats making it a bunch of unrestricted free agent mercenaries. The school doesn't matter, just the money.
That's the ugliness of it all.
JUst thinking outloud.
Man...it's just a matter of time, before Civil...[and, possibly Criminal]....courts are asked to resolve conflicts.
Lol....I don't know, what laws, regulations or rules, either party is gonna rely on to make their arguments.
Interesting to see what the XFL and the USFL, which are combining this year, are thinking about this situation. The owners of this league might see an opportunity to profit off 5-stars high schoolers playing in their league as opposed to has-beens and unknown players trying to make the NFL. One of the owners is Dwayne Johnson, aka " The Rock". Maybe a little business savvy and political connections could produce a profitable semipro football league. Not desirable, at least for me, but Interesting nevertheless.
No matter how many teams are in the playoffs, job one is getting the rankings out of the hands of professional university administrators and other politicians. There is sufficient technology and metrics to create a computer model that can produce a legitimate ranking. Byes are going to be of utmost importance and having a roomful of money hungry puppets whose strings are being pulled by TV executives to create matchups through the rankings will further bastardize the ranking process even more than it is already!
I was kinda thinking the same thing. Though, you are the first to actually comment on it.
They could really turn it into a thing....with the right Promotion. If I were them....I'd start by hiring people like, Deion Sanders and Lincoln Riley. Known recruiters and air-taid/West Coast style backgrounds to Coach some of the teams.
The bigger the "mouth"...the better. "Deion Sanders & Sons" were built for this....and Lincoln Riley could show em how to light up a scoreboard [or, rack up yards, anyway].
If they concentrate, mainly, on HS Graduates and JuCo Players....They could call it..."The After-School Foorball League"....or, ASFL. Lol
I'd watch em. Lol...."Tuesday Night Football"...look out!
Make betting on college sports illegal. ESPN and Fox have tailored how they cover sports for the average bettor who doesnt care about the team they placed a bet on.
They dont care about rivalries or tradition, but they'll casually watch a bunch of different games and be interested in the ones getting the most hype.
ESPN is not in it for the hard core cfb fan that has supported their team since childhood and probably went to the university (or have familiy that did).
The people ESPN care about now do not give two sh!ts if USC is playing Maryland instead of UCLA (or whoever their former rivals are).
Lol, 😆. The bigger the personalities, the bigger the audience. They can take care of the big money 5-stars, transfers and create some excitement. It could also save college football for the purest.
NIL is not going to change. It's an individual right, verified by the Supreme Court. Quite frankly, the only discussion that can take place about NIL is regarding a minor under the law and their "rights." After 18 years of age any individual can use their fame, brains, talent or pure luck to get paid by any willing payor. It is assumed there will be some sort of contractual agreement and those agreements will be different for each individual. People with qualities or luck enough to have NIL opportunities are not going to accept herd payments. Let's just get over it and out manage the system, dominate the negotiations and vanquish our opponents. Seems like Kirby feels that way.
I've already given up on pro sports and at the rate the NCAA is screwing up college sports I may get in a lot more golf, fishing, and hunting in the coming years.
Most of these ideas are almost laughable. Those stating that things can't change are wrong!! College football is a business and if the consumers stop paying money for it--Things will change overnight. No more NIL and the portal is changed to after bowl games and is a one time event lasting two weeks. Kid can transfer one time and that's it-you are where you are and make the best of it or study and get a real job.