re: Transfer portal out/in

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And they want to play at UGA.

That's all I want in the NIL era. I don't care if you are a 6-star athlete... players only looking for a suitcase of money can go elsewhere.

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No offense, but that is a very naive way to think. I can promise you thata every single one of our two deep is getting paid and most, if not all would leave if we gave them nothing.

Just because money is a part of it does not mean that it is the entire picture. But if you take money completely out of the picture, they would all leave. (Or most of them) They might take a bit less to come here, but money has been introduced and it will play a large role for the best players.

When so many on this board and the Rant were arguing, I tried to say that it was a genie they did not want out of the bottle. Now I dare say, you will find very few people who will admit they were all for NIL. Some will argue they were for NIL but with restrictions, but you never know what you will get when you argue for change. Same goes for the transfer portal.

The people that will eventually be the most harmed by this is the 3 star type players in high school. The number of full rides being handed out will be reserved for high 4 star and 5 star rated players. Teams will not need to have 15-20 3 star players in a recruiting class. It is now a game of horse trading in the portal to form yearly rosters. The 3 star guys who used to make up at least half of recruiting classes at most schools are now going to get offered partials at Georgia State , Louisiana-Monroe, etc..

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I mean, for years other conferences had football players that played other sports professionally at a point.

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They didn't do it simultaneously.
Their eligibility clock was deemed to not be activated because they were playing minor league baseball, in the military, or doing a religious mission trip.

No one played professional baseball while they were a student athlete. No one played professional baseball after they were a student athlete and then returned back to being a student athlete.

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It’s pretty undeniable CFB is worse off since NIL at least imo.

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It's subjective.

It is undeniable that teams broke the rules before and got away with it.

Now, the colleges at least have a duty to report everything above the table to the ncaa.

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It can still be regulated

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NIL cannot be regulated. It is someone's personal name, image, and likeness. Even the NFL doesn't regulate its players endorsement deals.

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the transfer portal, and it should be.

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I have not heard a decent argument why the transfer portal shouldn't have a mandatory redshirt for undergrads. There, I agree.

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They didn't do it simultaneously.

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Again, I could be wrong, but I was thinking they did. Some played minor league baseball while playing football. Again, I could be wrong. I'll see if I can find something.

It could be I was thinking that the SEC would not let a player play football if he had eve played any sport professionally whether at the same time or separately....like you said. It's been a long time ago this was happening, though, so ...

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If you find an example, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong.

Everyone I know enrolled in college in their 20s and played after they had given up on their baseball career.

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I think I found it. Please read until the end. It mentions the rule and one or two players that have done it.

3. Pro money in a different sport. In the NCAA's confusing world of amateurism, you can be deemed an amateur in one sport while clearly a professional in another. A pro athlete paid in one sport can simultaneously play college athletics in a different sport and receive a scholarship. It doesn't happen much, but the sport most frequently impacted is a college football player who also participates in minor league baseball. In 2010, Kyle Parker was Clemson's quarterback after he got a $1.4 million signing bonus from the Colorado Rockies. Russell Wilson had a $200,000 signing bonus with the Rockies, some of which he had to return to the club when he left to play quarterback at Wisconsin. Roscoe Crosby had a $1.75 million signing bonus from the Kansas City Royals while a Clemson wide receiver in the early 2000s.

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Michel's case, obviously would be different from that, so I bow to your expertise and knowledge on that.

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The people that will eventually be the most harmed by this is the 3 star type players in high school. The number of full rides being handed out will be reserved for high 4 star and 5 star rated players. Teams will not need to have 15-20 3 star players in a recruiting class. It is now a game of horse trading in the portal to form yearly rosters. The 3 star guys who used to make up at least half of recruiting classes at most schools are now going to get offered partials at Georgia State , Louisiana-Monroe, etc..

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In the past 4 recruiting cycles, there have been a total of 1,741 players ranked at least a 4* by the 247 composite.

There are 133 D1 football teams with 85 man scholarship roster. That comes out to 11,305 Division 1 college football players on scholarship each season.

Maybe you meant major conference. If you mean Big 2(SEC/B1G) then there are 34 teams at 85 men, or 2,890 major conference players.

Is that not right. ACC and B12 could be considered major conferences at least for now, so thats 67 schools, or 5,695 players on scholarship.

Please let me know your work and how you got to the point that 3 star players will be the most harmed in this. Roughly 1750 4 and 5 star players in school per 4 year cycle. Over 11,000 total players in D1 annually.

NIL isnt about Name, image and likeness. A very, very small percentage are signing endorsements or licensing agreements. The vast majority are getting money from funds set up by the school, without any regulation, that pay the kid just to sign with that school. They are now simply player signing bonuses.

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NIL isnt about Name, image and likeness. A very, very small percentage are signing endorsements or licensing agreements. The vast majority are getting money from funds set up by the school, without any regulation, that pay the kid just to sign with that school. They are now simply player signing bonuses.

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Yes, I agree. But that has always gone on. Just on a much smaller scale. The very top recruits always got extra incentives, whether in the form of housing, money or other benefits. It just spread to a lot more players, out in the open and on a larger scale.

No, it isn't being done in the way it was intended, but very few things are done as intended. Look at targeting, holding and other penalties which are not being enforced properly. It's not surprise that the Transfer Portal and NIL is operating in a way that was never intended.