re: Close the damn portal

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.College football is NFL lite now, and they are going to have to control the players with contracts, unfortunately.

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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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The portal is great for those kids that go to Texas A&M, then realize it is a freakish cult and not worth the NIL money.

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not to mention the news that the A&M boosters have failed to live up to NIL agreements, at least in some cases

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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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By "perform" do you mean perform academically or athletically? If you mean athletically, NIL entities/Boosters are not allowed to put anything like that in a contract because of the NCAA "no pay for play" rules...Clauses like that in writing could get Boosters and the University in trouble..

That is part of the whole problem, they should be able to put athletic performance clauses in the NIL contracts and have leverage via contracts on the athletes leaving the programs high and dry via the transfer portal...Right now the athletes have all the leverage.