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re: Close the damn portal
Posted on 12/7/23 at 11:23 am to fareplay
Posted on 12/7/23 at 11:23 am to fareplay
It's pretty simple to fix really as soon as these colleges and boosters accept that this is not amateurism anymore. Players are making profit now, so make the players put some skin in the game by signing a contract with whatever NIL entity is paying them money. Put restrictions in the contract on them transferring after X number of games or they pay back X amount of money to the NIL entity. Put performance clauses in the contracts, etc. It doesn't make sense to just hand out money like candy to these players and they can leave at the drop of a hat with no penalties. The people giving them the NIL money are going to have to end all of the craziness with the Transfer Portal..College football is NFL lite now, and they are going to have to control the players with contracts, unfortunately.
This post was edited on 12/7/23 at 11:31 am
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Posted on 12/8/23 at 8:52 am to AZHorn
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.College football is NFL lite now, and they are going to have to control the players with contracts, unfortunately.
That's the reality, and it isn't unfortunate.
If these players insist on getting paid, then they should be treated like contract employees. Sign a contract when you sign with the team/program. That contract would include incentives and a buyout clause to be paid by the new program/NIL collective if/when a transfer happens. If they want to be employees, they should be treated like them. If you want to keep some semblance of "student" in the student-athlete mirage, tie academic performance into the incentives of the contract (personally, I believe this should 100% be required). This contract should go both ways. If a player doesn't perform, he should be able to be cut with no ramifications toward scholarship numbers (again, accounted for in the contract).
What you have now is wide open free agency where there are only rules for one party involved in the deal. The school/program is bound by the terms of the scholarship still when the scholarship doesn't mean shite. Transfers should be limited to one per career if the choice is made by the player. Anything beyond that should require sitting out a year.
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