re: NCAA is going to have to bring back the sit out a year transfer rule

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I think the portal should simply open for a single 2 week span in the late spring or early summer. If you sign with a team, you should stay with the team through bowl season. They should also allow the high school players to finish recruitment before existing players are allowed to transfer.

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This. Portal should open after signing day for HS recruits and before spring practice.

They’re ruining bowl season with this shite. Half the teams are running their 2nd string

Most these transfers don't even start or get playing time. Most will go to programs just to get PT if they get offered. It just seems crazy because it is alot of names entering.

A coach can accept 3 jobs in 3 years getting a pay raise each time.

Why can’t a player ?

Your post makes no sense.

Player benefits are tuition, meals, housing, Healthcare, cost of attendance stipend. None of that is an employee relationship.

NIL is a 3rd party arrangement.
The university can't stop it if they tried.
Gillette sponsors the NFL and New England Patriots.
But Gillette, the NFL, nor the New England Patriots can prevent David Andrews from signing a sponsorship with Norelco.

It is the same for the athletes.
There is no employment agreement.
No HR
No work comp
No OSHA
Equal Employer Opportunity.

You are making no sense.

I think the universities should do more. Family housing.. family transportation so parents can watch games. Healthcare for after playing days for injuries. That is where the additional revenues should first go.

But none of that has a single thing to do with NIL or the Supreme court.

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I'm new to the thread. But you don't have a grasp of what is going on.
The ncaa didn't decide anything financially. The Supreme Court ruled that the players control their own NIL. The universities have absolutely nothing to do with NIL other than reporting. Which means the universities have no control over who gets what. It is impossible to cap. Impossible to legislate. Impossible to change.

The only possibility is to add the 1 year redshirt back to undergrad portal transfers.
If someone wants to throw money, they can. But the player sits (unless a grad transfer).
A red shirt actually protects player eligibility. It is a good thing.

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Schools can and do get involved in NIL. They allowed states to define that. Mississippi, for example, allowed schools to be involved directly with associations with private funds.

As for the sitting rule, the NCAA is handing out waivers to just about anyone that applies for one. This is how JT Daniels is on his way to his 4th school.

What you are missing is the NCAA's role in this is simply reactionary to avoid lawsuits. They are "staying out the the way" and being vague on purpose. But in this, they are allowing everything. It's out of control because of the lack of restrictions. The lack of restrictions comes from an effort to avoid lawsuits.

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Most these transfers don't even start or get playing time.

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I'd imagine not insignificant number of players in the portal are underclassmen, not just older players who are buried in a depth chart. And there are certainly plenty of guys in the portal who are starters or regular rotation players with significant playing time.

Regardless, that's all irrelevant. There is no discrimination currently on who can and can't enter the portal. Which is funny because schools are now required to honor scholarships for a full 4 years, regardless of whether players are "processed" from being a part of the football team, absent the players doing such things as committing crimes, failing out of school, etc. This has been the case in the major conferences since 2015

However, the players, now, can withdraw from those scholarships and play immediately whenever they want without penalty. They can negotiate an NIL deal commit to one school out of high school and another while in school. There are no safeguards whatsoever for the school. Free agency only works when there are actual rules and structure everyone must adhere to.

What we have now is a professional sports league without calling it that and without any of the expected and standard structures of any sports league around the world.

College football needs to acquiesce to the premise that student athletes are and should be paid contract employees of the school. However, the athletes will also need to acquiesce to the idea that with that also comes with the caveat that when they sign a contract with a school, they have to fulfill their obligations. If they don't like a coaching change, their playing time, or anything else, they either adhere to their contractual obligations as employees or they will find themselves in breach of their contractual obligations.

Now, with that also comes other benefits to the players such as a players union, benefits, and collective bargaining.

But this current construct of paying players and them not being locked into anywhere or anything and unbridled free-agency is not a sustainable model for any sports league. It benefits neither the programs nor the athletes to think the bottom won't inevitably fall out with out addressing these inherent issues.

Nothing about this is unfair to the players or an affront to capitalism. It's structuring a business (a very big one) in a way that is sustainable long-term.

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Why?

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Ole Miss had 28 transfers last year. That's why. It's ridiculous and NIL should be better controlled too. Before it's too late.

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It's ridiculous and NIL should be better controlled too. Before it's too late.

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It will control itself. Some players aren't going to sit back while other players get overpaid and they don't get their share. Then you will have divided locker rooms. Coaches don't want that.

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If you have to ask. Maybe college football is a bit too complicated for you.

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Holds true if you think the NCAA has the power to put either genie back in the bottle.