re: Official Portal Thread

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Where do you guys get 7 figures now? If osu offered 2 mill and we were at 1 mill, how does that equate to 7 figures. Maybe someone in Tuscaloosa just has brains. You can pay several top olinemen for that kind of money

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Hey man it’s cool. We all post things when we are not thinking clearly or are drunk or whatever.

But please, I’m begging you, you have to explain what was in you head when you posted this. I have to know. I just have to know.

Agree. Both players are from the same area of the state too.

Foley and Saraland

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quote:Yes Was it for 1 year or spread over multiple years? OSU rumor is $2mill for 2 years.

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It was all at once, just to keep him. There would have been more the following year. But the sponsors we assembled were legit. It’s just really disappointing.

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I don’t know how it’s above board honestly.

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So why don't we just turn them in? I mean honestly that's the only way forward with all this. If half a dozen teams get turned in whenever a guy hits the portal because he was induced to do so, it'd bury the NCAA in so much shite that they'd have to start bringing the hammer down to try to get it in check.

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I don’t know how many times this has to be said but the NCAA could have the best lawyers in the world and still lose these cases. It’s not a matter of the NCAA screwing up, it’s the fact that this model was allowed to exist for so long people think it was legal in the first place.

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This plus infinity times a zillion.

I just told someone in another thread who was absolutely sure that something would be done to rein this in that he was making the mistake of looking at this as a fan and approaching it from a competitive sports standpoint, when that is completely irrelevant.

This is the inevitable result of college football morphing from a sport into a multibillion dollar a year business, and the NCAA, schools, coaches and especially fans thinking that the people who actually put their arses and blood on the line for our entertainment should be satisfied with a cut of the action that to us seems astronomical but in the grand scheme of this multibillion dollar a year business is a pittance.

IMO there is no restriction of what’s going on now that will survive a restraint of trade court challenge in the 21st century. None. There is no savior, not Saban on a white horse or anyone else, coming over the horizon to restore things to how fans who are rightfully angry that what they want is not being given any consideration here, and will not be, think they should be.

It is what it is. Eventually things will stabilize, but the sport is forever changed.

I’m not disagreeing with you at all, but more than likely the powers at be inside the ncaa are on the take as well.

If that kinda of money ($2mill) is being giving to a kid to play football in college than more than likely these boosters have no problem buying the ncaa to turn they’re heads

I don’t blame the parents or the kids, $2mill is a lot of fricking money to turned down even if you got money it’s still $2mill regardless. And I dare say anyone on here that had a kid that was being offered that kinda of money and the other side couldn’t match it would be stupid not to explore it or except it. You would have to be filthy rich not too

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Dumb question I guess but since none of the players are FORCED to play college sports, can the NCAA/colleges not say “This is our product and we will give every student athlete 3,000 a month, the best academic tutors, meals , mental health counselors , access to physical training etc , tuition towards a degree…. Take it or go play somewhere else “?

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In reality the NCAA could change how they operate but not sure colleges would stay members.

The real issue right now is this has far more to deal with politics and outside forces outside of sports than it does NIL, transfer, or media deals. This is all being heavily pushed through political agendas. The left especially through the Dept of Labor is using this as a launching pad to make athletes be classified as employees. This is being driven by special interest groups that are financially supporting politicians and these mainly are the unions who are struggling nationally.

A lot of power behind the scenes driving this. This will get far worse before it gets better and the trajectory it is own the players, NCAA, nor the universities are going to have a say in this.

Kinda crazy to leave Alabama for Iowa.

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Kinda crazy to leave Alabama for Iowa

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That's where he's from. They put OL in the NFL. We flipped him from them. His girlfriend is still there. Most logical transfer I've seen.