re: Apparently we have free agency in college football starting 10/15/18

That’s because this will likely cause schools that sign the most talent to lose the most players....

Highly recruited guys will leave when they see they are going to ride the bench

The communism was the old rule. Actually the old rule was pure unethical dictatorship really

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This ridiculous rule now empowers athletes to control college football rosters.

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The horror

All that talk about "bringing something to this thread"...

SMH

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Well it isn't like the players get paid what they are worth.

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Few companies hire its employees proportional to their labor output. The point is to make money off of them.

However, if someone told me that for the next four years I get a free place to stay, free meals and a top notch degree and all I have to do is exercise and play -- and the cherry on top is that the school will use its connections and prestige to potentially get me a six figure salary even if I sit on the bench in the NFL for a few years...

That's payment enough. People are too shortsighted to understand that the benefit of being a student athlete ends with a damn good diploma in the worst case scenario (barring injury or you not being good enough) and getting a fat paycheck from the NFL being the best.

Consider this...

Player X wants to go to 5 Star U. But 5 Star U is chock full of talent. He doesn't want to ride the bench, so he settles for lowly Cajun State. He plays in 4 games, shows some promise, and reshirts. Cajun State starts planning on this player but suddenly they get a notification to transfer. And Player X is on his way to 5 Star U.

Much ado about nothing?

Please! This message board would be overflowing with posts about SEC offices in Birmingham, REC, fiduciary negligence, ESPN hates Cajuns, goats, and so on.

If you are against corruption and tampering you should be against this. If you are just some poor inbred smuck whose team has been unable to beat Saban and your future prospects are exceedingly dim, maybe you are stupid enough to be in favor of what the Transfer Working Group is driving at.

And if a player sets his classes up correctly and goes to both summer schools he can graduate in 3.5 years and then get an advanced degree in the year and a half left on his scholarship. ( if you do your work on and off the field you will have 5 years to play 4).

Ok....I’m sorry...I must be missing something (other than most bammers are insecureU name callers)
What is the big change in the transfer rule?
Please explain...

It wasn't mutual before. If the coach wanted to process someone (even if they didn't violate rules) the player didn't have a say. All it does is give the player power for one year that the coach has the whole time.

Its not like starters on top teams are going to be leaving. It will be players that ride the bench for top schools leaving and going somewhere they can play.

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so let me get this straight. it's cool for Dan Mullen to go from one conference school to another, and for other coaches to go to one school from another without penalty, but players cant?

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Players are untrained adolescents with no legitimate marketable skills or education. Coaches are professionals responsible for the entire college football program. Do you really think they are equal?