re: Thank You Alabama

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Why? Because people are taking bama recruits and thats not allowed? No mention of stealing GT's best Running back or cherry picking from other's rosters in the past few years, but heaven forbid other teams start poaching 5 star players from your team.

Bama had a hell of a ride, cheating without consequences. Now "cheating" is allowed for everyone and your competitive advantage is gone. Get bent bama fans.

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Yes

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Why? Because people are taking bama recruits and thats not allowed?

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No, there are a multitude of problems with what we’re currently seeing.

First, when a coach is fired, quits, or retires, the portal window opens for all players on the roster for 30 days, but the school is only allowed to rebuild their roster from players currently in the portal. Since this typically happens outside of the normal portal window, this means the school is pretty much handcuffed and unable to rebuild their rosters until the Spring portal window, which doesn’t open until after spring practice.

This is largely why Brian Kelly had to go through an entire offseason and spring with what amounted to the equivalent of severe NCAA recruiting sanctions and why Washington will enter spring practice this year with probably 1-2 players remaining from their starting 22.

Second, there are no regulations, caps, or rules on how much collectives can pay for recruits. That price will continue to increase in an arms race. Here’s some news for you - that’s not good news for the Auburns of the world. Texas, Texas A&M, Oregon, etc. will be setting the market value. The only thing protecting the rest of us is the scholarship limit.

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Bama had a hell of a ride, cheating without consequences. Now "cheating" is allowed for everyone and your competitive advantage is gone. Get bent bama fans.

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fricking cope.

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No mention of stealing GT's best Running back or cherry picking from other's rosters in the past few years, but heaven forbid other teams start poaching 5 star players from your team.

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As many have mentioned (and you're willfully ignoring here because trolling is your thing), incoming Bama transfers have always happened during the standard portal windows. Even then, Bama has received between just 2-4 incoming transfers a year.

Currently, Bama is dealing with an extended, one-way transfer portal window with very little existing in the standard portal at the moment. Why did the NCAA think this extra portal was a necessary step in the transfer process? No clue. Seems dumb even in theory, and looks even worse in practice. Only reason you're celebrating it is because it's happening to a team you hate.

Even though this is happening to my favorite team, rather than be a bitter little bitch and cheer for it to happen to one of our rivals in the future, I would hope they fix it, as it's ultimately punitive to allow 120+ teams in the country a chance to enter an open bidding war on your roster with no practical means of backfilling any losses for at least another few months.

It's easy to fix, and should be.