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Close the damn portal. Ruins college sports by taking away amateurism.

Yet, I bet you liked the NIL rules that enabled the talent that Jumbo brought in and wasted.

It's a rookie contract vs free agent contract situation with no constraints. Those kids are getting paid.

College athletes may have it better than even NFL athletes because of stupid NCAA rules stating that NIL cannot be used as "pay for play." How would an NIL entity/ booster guarantee they get a return on their investment, and the athlete not just take their money and jump in the portal and go rob some other school's boosters? They would have to have the athlete under some type of contractual agreement to protect the investment; however, they cannot put anything in writing because the NCAA has these stupid rules that NIL money cannot be used as "pay for play."

So basically you couldn't make some kind of contract stating said college athlete has to play X number of games to get X amount of money, or said athlete cannot transfer before X number of games or they have to pay back X amount of money. That might be going way to far actually putting it in writing and get the booster/ university in trouble with the NCAA.

College sports are hosed with this NIL/ Transfer Portal madness until the NCAA either fixes their BS rules or turns a blind eye to Boosters making contractual agreements with the athletes.

This post was edited on 12/7/23 at 11:04 pm