NCAA President - no sympathy for coaches, not favorable to transfer restrictions

People will downvote but it is true. Maybe they could make exemptions against transfers in case of retirements, but when coaches walk out on players for better opportunities and more money why wouldn't players follow their lead?

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Something tells me that the idea of having to pay money to terminate a contract early would come as a huge shock to a lot of these guys. If they had to pay back 20% of the value of their NIL deals to be able to transfer without getting sued for breach of contract it might actually fix a lot of the problems.

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Exactly. The current conversation is framed around a misunderstanding of a coach’s contractual obligation, and it is apparently assumed by most that coaches are free to leave a job Willie nillie without buyouts coming into play.

I do think it would tamp down the level of poaching we are seeing at the moment.

I don't think it is a true apple to apple comparison.


With coaches leaving, buyouts are usually in play. The party pursuing the coach usually pays that. I think as someone stated earlier, it will be more expensive to buy athletes if they do contracts that way.

I think making the contracts for 1 year and carry it over into bowl season is what needs to happen. There are other semantics to work out, but issues like FSU this year need to be remedied.

Yep… that pretty much sums it up. No longer student athletes but paid athletes representing the universities in a particular sport. If these rich boosters want to pay them that’s fine, it’s their money.

So when the paid athletes bolt to a better payday don’t get pissed. It’s the adults in charge that created it.

Seems like the fair way to go about it is if a program accepts a transfer coming in, during the dead period, that the portal should open for them too. Maybe not the full 30 days but maybe a 10-15 day window.

The NCAA is a joke and anything they say has no real merit. I understand to some extent but the NCAA helped create many of the issues we are facing now while they stood by and watched. They no longer have a say in what is going on.

The sport is dead as truly college football. After 2020 everything turned to crap in this country.

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It’s a silly comparison. One is a contracted job with a penalty for early termination and the other is a scholarship. If you want to leave, that’s fine, but there has to be some sort of penalty. Sitting out a year was fair enough. This endless pursuit of fairness, whether it’s with transfer/NIL or the playoffs is killing the sport.

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Reality is the sport has devolved into a situation where both the coaches and the players view their relationship with the schools as “open” and something that is only a short term hookup before they move on to something else equally short term chasing money or pro opportunities.

The fans are basically children of a broken home at this point being scolded that they need to follow the rules (show up to games, pretend this is still amateur athletics and pay more money, etc) when no one else in the equation is doing so.

As the kids say “FAFO”.

The coaches, schools, networks and players are “FA”. I highly suspect in the next decade or so they’re going to “FO”.

Everyone involved decided to treat this as a big business to be run by MBAs and that the best option was to chase short term profits. That’s fine, but they can’t be surprised when the fans start treating them as a product to be evaluated objectively and that if they find it wanting they can opt out of buying.

I suspect with the rose colored glasses and nostalgia stripped away its a pretty easy choice for many people and that the ADs and presidents end up wishing they’d never gone full end stage capitalism with their “product”.

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People will downvote but it is true. Maybe they could make exemptions against transfers in case of retirements, but when coaches walk out on players for better opportunities and more money why wouldn't players follow their lead?

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This should all be addressed with basic arms length transaction contract law. If a coach or school terminates a coaching contract early then there are financial consequences (e.g., buyouts) that are customarily built into contracts to appropriately allocate this risk. Eventually these NIL deals will adjust to multi-deal years with appropriate penalties for early termination as well. I just don't think we are there yet, but it won't take long. That won't completely stop the crazy transfer situation but it will regulate it some when players have financial skin in the game for transferring.