re: Cam Coleman is entering the transfer portal...

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and it has become so much more worse than just NIL, will ruin college football as we know it

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For about the 1,000th time, it is not really NIL that is the problem. It is a transfer portal that allows players to transfer at will. With them coming and going every year, bidding wars develop and the prices go up and up and up. Then it becomes even more of a disaster. Not only can you lose a bunch of players every year, but the process by which this happens jacks up the price of getting players making it even harder to replace and build your roster.

TRANSFER PORTAL = #1 problem in NCAA football.

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We cant have it both ways Leeman. We were crowing like mofos the last two years when Preacher Hugh was buying up all the talent.

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Utah is in the process of negotiating a deal with a private equity firm, Otro Capital out of New York that would land them a $500 million infusion of cash in exchange for a percentage of the programs revenue.

Yeah, but these kids these days ain't cut from the Dye/Bear/Dooley cloth.

It's almost impossible for me to lose my shite with AU and college athletics in general these days. Sucks, but at the same time, my B.P. is better for it.

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TRANSFER PORTAL = #1 problem in NCAA football.

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No salary cap.

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For about the 1,000th time, it is not really NIL

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Sure it is along with the transfer portal. They both are the problem. It needs to go to collective bargaining and contracts, you’re being naive or obtuse if you think kids coming out of high school are going for 7 figures is not a problem. The transfer portal wouldn’t be as big of an issue if money wasn’t being thrown around. There would be very little incentive to jump around every year.

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I don't think AU has the resources (deep pocket boosters) to compete with the big boys especially the oil money guys of Texas, TAM and Texas Tech. We got Yellowfellow and only $30 million to spend. Even bama has various revenue sources.

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I thought NIL was capped, across the board, at $30 Mil? Not many school can afford to fund it to the max, that puts us up there with the top schools, as far as funding. Now it's a whole other story on whether we throw a ton of it at a handful of players. Carson Beck is a prime example. He could've stayed at UGA and be in a better position for a natty ring, but Miami threw their checkbook at him and some are saying they overpaid. We definitely overpaid for Arnold!

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you’re being naive or obtuse if you think kids coming out of high school are going for 7 figures is not a problem

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Why is this a problem? Every Pro sport operates on this model. The next generation of talent is always paid prior to them ever having proven anything.

A 5-star HS recruit is no different from a Top 15 NFL draft pick. You are committing millions of dollars to a player who has yet to actually produce anything, based off of expected future production. Cam Ward's rookie contract was for nearly $50M guaranteed, with over $30M coming in the form of a signing bonus. And he earned this without ever throwing a single pass against an NFL opponent. The Titans don't get reimbursed if it turns out that Cam Ward actually sucks.

In the MLB, teams routinely pay $1-4+M for 16 year old Latin American prospects every single year, the vast majority of whom wont ever even make it to the MLB. And this is outside of the normal Draft process, where untested HS or College players are paid even more if they are high draft picks.

College football is simply in a state where the actual value of talent has yet to be fully determined, and the big problem is that there are loosely enforceable "contracts" with no restriction on player movement. Once they limit player movement and start enforcing multi-year contracts, things will start to settle down. But a 5-star HS kid is still going to end up getting paid more than a 3-star kid, no different from how a 1st round draft pick is paid more money than a 4th round draft pick in the NFL.