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Repairing College Football
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:23 am
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:23 am
What can be done at this point? What would it take to provide some structure? Some of the best lawyers in the world have analyzed Texas’s contract stuff, if they don’t have teeth, I assume none of them do. Is there any tangible band-aids? Some of my favorite Longhorns of recent memory probably wouldn’t have been recruited by Texas or been retained long enough to make an impact. Alfred Collins, 5th year senior late bloomer, one of the best young IDL in the NFC. Jahdae Barron, Thorpe winner, was buried on the depth chart at times. Tvondre Sweat, took multiple years to get his body right, probably wouldn’t have finished a Longhorn. Byron Murphy, probably wouldn’t be offered by Texas in the current climate. The list goes on and on. Texas will thrive in any circumstance, but I’m a college football fan first.
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Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:27 am to EastTXHorn
Day __ of Texas fans pretending like uncapped pay-for-play didn’t completely save their program 
Sark went 5-7 and 8-5 at Texas before all of this bullshite.
Sark went 5-7 and 8-5 at Texas before all of this bullshite.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:29 am to EastTXHorn
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Repairing College Football
Just call it something else. If you're getting paid to play, it's not student athletics.
I would not mind seeing a sort of college football (or other usual sport) where none of the players outside of a normal educational and athletic stipend are allowed to play.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:31 am to NFLSU
Texas has been top 10 in lowest portal start percentage since its inception.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:36 am to NFLSU
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Texas fans pretending like uncapped pay-for-play didn’t completely save their program
You say that like it's something bad.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:37 am to EastTXHorn
Burn it down. Get all of the Presidents and Chancellors together get them to agree to go back to the old way. A student signs a grant in aid, they are bound by that grant in aid until the finish or transfer (sit out a year). The $6M quarterbacks can go form their own semi pro league and once that fails, they will come back to real college football. It will suck for a few years but it sucks now in a different way. Again, burn it down.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:39 am to EastTXHorn
They are contract employees now and need to be treated as such.
Specific performance, morality clauses, etc.
Specific performance, morality clauses, etc.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:39 am to EastTXHorn
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Texas has been top 10 in lowest portal start percentage since its inception.
We’re not just talking about the +3M you spent on Auburn’s WR
How many 5 stars from the State of Georgia did Texas sign before uncapped pay-for-play? What about the State of Florida? Sark has been signing kids who would have never even visited Texas before all of this shite became legal.
No three programs have benefited more from uncapped pay-for-play than Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech.
Stop pretending like you’re too Holy for it.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 9:56 am to NFLSU
You could count on one hand any HS recruited OOS kid from the South that have played significant snaps for Texas in Sarks tenure. You wouldn’t even need all five fingers.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:01 am to EastTXHorn
College football is fine.
Many of the games were fun to watch...including the playoffs.
Only complainers are fat, old, bald boomers shaking their fists at the sky.
bet
Many of the games were fun to watch...including the playoffs.
Only complainers are fat, old, bald boomers shaking their fists at the sky.
bet
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:05 am to EastTXHorn
Ultimately, small town car dealerships don't have the pull they once did.
When you have billionaires supporting Indiana and Texas Tech at the level they are, this is the logical result.
The answer to repairing college football is for it to become college football once again. Stop paying players and punish schools that do.
When you have billionaires supporting Indiana and Texas Tech at the level they are, this is the logical result.
The answer to repairing college football is for it to become college football once again. Stop paying players and punish schools that do.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:07 am to NFLSU
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uncapped pay-for-play didn’t completely save their program
And killed LSU's
Sucks to be poor
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:09 am to Monsusta
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Only complainers are fat, old, bald boomers shaking their fists at the sky
You been spying on me
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:12 am to theballguy
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Just call it something else. If you're getting paid to play, it's not student athletics.
The government decided its NFL minor league football.
We need to accept that or go back to full ivy league style football.
Currently we're trapped with the worst of the NFL paired to the worst of CFB.
-Players are contract employees of the university
-Contracts govern eligibility for football (if you want to transfer despite your contract to another school to study, fine, but you cant play football)
-Use two year contracts and have out clauses for coach firings
-Leagues probably need to consider a salary cap or there will be no long term competitive landscape just like you've seen in MLB
This post was edited on 1/14/26 at 10:14 am
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:37 am to EastTXHorn
If you want to repair college football the most important thing to fix is the transfer portal and the fact that you entire roster become free agents every single year.
Easiest fix I can see is you can enter the portal once and play the next season but if you enter the portal a 2nd time you have to sit out a year and there is no 3rd portal entry. If you couldn't figure something out by your 3rd school you are a moron, malcontent, or both.
Next fix is when you sign a NIL deal with a school the school should be able to set the number of years so if they offer you a 3 year NIL deal then you are locked into that school for 3 years before you can enter the portal.
Last portal tweak is have only one window and only open it after the CFP final.
The final tweak would be to fix the CFP process.
Make the official CFP a BCS selected top 8 only regardless of conference championship, eliminate conference championship weekend, let the top 8 play the 4 home games then the 4 winners run the 2014-23 CFP trio of games. Create a G5 CFP and follow the same format and let them crown a recognized national champion as well.
Easiest fix I can see is you can enter the portal once and play the next season but if you enter the portal a 2nd time you have to sit out a year and there is no 3rd portal entry. If you couldn't figure something out by your 3rd school you are a moron, malcontent, or both.
Next fix is when you sign a NIL deal with a school the school should be able to set the number of years so if they offer you a 3 year NIL deal then you are locked into that school for 3 years before you can enter the portal.
Last portal tweak is have only one window and only open it after the CFP final.
The final tweak would be to fix the CFP process.
Make the official CFP a BCS selected top 8 only regardless of conference championship, eliminate conference championship weekend, let the top 8 play the 4 home games then the 4 winners run the 2014-23 CFP trio of games. Create a G5 CFP and follow the same format and let them crown a recognized national champion as well.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:44 am to theballguy
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Just call it something else. If you're getting paid to play, it's not student athletics. I would not mind seeing a sort of college football (or other usual sport) where none of the players outside of a normal educational and athletic stipend are allowed to play.
Agreed, just call it semi-pro regional football, which is the appropriate title nowadays. Teams become independent entities, leasing stadiums, facilities and brands from the Universities. The teams will no longer be subject to title IX and can make actual rules.
Eventually fans will realize this all sucks, stop watching and the teams will go bankrupt. College football can then restart as it was intended with glorified frat boys running the Notre Dame box or something
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:45 am to EastTXHorn
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What can be done at this point?
Return the portal to the pre-covid rules. Each player gets one free transfer. After that, he sits out a season before he can play again. THis would solve 90% of the current problems. No one is going to want to pay a player to ride the bench for a year and most players will not want to transfer if they are not getting a bigger paycheck
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:46 am to Pimphand
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If you want to repair college football the most important thing to fix is the transfer portal and the fact that you entire roster become free agents every single year. Easiest fix I can see is you can enter the portal once and play the next season but if you enter the portal a 2nd time you have to sit out a year and there is no 3rd portal entry. If you couldn't figure something out by your 3rd school you are a moron, malcontent, or both. Next fix is when you sign a NIL deal with a school the school should be able to set the number of years so if they offer you a 3 year NIL deal then you are locked into that school for 3 years before you can enter the portal. Last portal tweak is have only one window and only open it after the CFP final. The final tweak would be to fix the CFP process. Make the official CFP a BCS selected top 8 only regardless of conference championship, eliminate conference championship weekend, let the top 8 play the 4 home games then the 4 winners run the 2014-23 CFP trio of games. Create a G5 CFP and follow the same format and let them crown a recognized national champion as well.
Ok DEI judge rules that all those fixes you just listed are null and void. What do you do then?
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:49 am to EastTXHorn
Never mind
This post was edited on 1/14/26 at 10:51 am
Posted on 1/14/26 at 10:51 am to tide06
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-Players are contract employees of the university -Contracts govern eligibility for football (if you want to transfer despite your contract to another school to study, fine, but you cant play football) -Use two year contracts and have out clauses for coach firings -Leagues probably need to consider a salary cap or there will be no long term competitive landscape just like you've seen in MLB
I wont pretend to be an internet lawyer, but it seems as if as long as the teams are under the legal umbrella of the Universities, that players will always just be able to judge shop and have any rule that prevents them from making more money to be ruled null and void
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