re: Should NCAA reinstate the 1-yr Sit Out on Transfers?

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Professional athletes signed up for it

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College players sign up for it too

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and are being paid handsomely

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and now college players are...i.e. the whole point

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Should we just tell CFB players where they have to go to college?

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I don't think a draft would be a terrible idea if we keep going down the road we're on.

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There is no way you are a college graduate

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It's baffling how ignorant you are, sorry.

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You said all they can decide is where they live

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I said that because you were bringing up the NFL players you tard. Thats the only advantage they have over NFL guys, and its only guys on rookie deals who in all likelihood make way more money than the college guys anyway.

I like how you ignored me asking how much you think an average college athlete makes on NIL

Don't forget to pick up some crayons on your way home.

If you're going to cherry pick points why should I discuss even further? You just ignore anything you don't have what you believe is a good answer for.

Anyone who thinks we should have a draft of recruits or even established CFB players is beyond moronic, and I'm not sorry. The what they do in regards to football has carryover to other sports as well, but you seem like a t-shirt fan who only follows football and probably don't care.

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ottom line, we cannot pay players unlimited funds of money and also have no structure with player movement. Period. That model is not sustainable long-term. It just isn't.

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That doesn't mean the sitting out a year solution is the only thing that is going to work, or even a good solution. I don't think guys who legitimately needed to leave a place to try and get a shot at playing or just made a bad decision as a teenager (which is the vast majority of portal entries) should be punished because a select few at the top are chasing a better NIL opportunity.

The problem is most of the effective solutions are to incentivize picking a school and staying there, and that would have to take place at the institutional level. There is just not any incentive for anyone outside of really small/poorer schools to blink and actually implement it.

Maybe have Scaling pay from collectives based on time on campus or just class level (junior, senior, etc).

Maybe you have actual longer term NIL contracts with teeth, and if you are in a contract and transfer you can't earn NIL at the new school. So you would have schools giving more highly touted guys 1 year deals if they ask for it, which means they could transfer for more at the end of the year but also means if they are a bust or problem you might just not give them anything next year.

Yes

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Courts won't allow it. There is no way for universities to agree to a set of rules which won't be collusion if someone challenges it in court. It is the free market doing what it does best. It is what conservative politics was, no more than 6 years ago, based on....free markets with little to no regulation outside of that which the natural forces of the market force.

There is no legal way that UGA and UF and LSU, for example, can agree that any players who transfer from one of the 3 to another of the 3 will have to sit out a year IF the player himself does not choose to sit out a year because he will simply transfer to another school without such rules. Those 3 schools would eventually have to decide to play by the same rules as everyone else or continue to attempt to be different. The NCAA can't impose any such rule because as soon as it does someone is going to challenge it and win. You cannot regulate the free market without legislation....thank goodness. Businesses cannot collude with one another to limit competition, thank goodness. If workers and small business are meant to figure out how to survive in a free market with little or no regulation why should college football be exempt?

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I disagree.
They aren't employees.
There is nothing to prevent the ncaa to make a player athletically ineligible. The ncaa does it all the time (years removed from high school, number of credit hours, GPA, impermissible benefits).

Regulating college athletics is within the purview of the ncaa/SEC.
Regulating NIL is not.

The ncaa easily could regulate the transfer rule to require a redshirt.
They have in the past (with a stupid, inconsistent waiver process. I suggest remove the waiver process. Any student with a diploma has earned special rights and immediate priviledges).

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The difference is there are 30ish pro teams in each league. There are 130 FBS teams in college football.

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20+ states have no pro sports in their borders....almost all have a FBS college football team in their border.

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pro sports leagues are going to face the same issue.

no, they won't.
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It ain't about contracts

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that ain't going to continue to fly in pro sports,

it will

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Just 5 or so years ago people on message boards such as this told me I was wrong about players getting paid and the transfer portal existing. I saw CFB becoming the NFL minor league 40 years ago when players won a court battle over the NCAA and the NFL keeping players in school past their junior years and again when colleges sued so they could be on TV as much as they could sell networks on. It is far easier to maintain a gentleman's agreement when there are only 30 gentlemen and no chance of anyone else becoming a gentleman without permission from those 30. 130 is completely unmanageable. State laws will vary as far as labor laws are concerned. Contracts are only as good as the parties signed to them and only good until someone challenges them in court and wins. You can't enter a contract where you agree to swap fundamental rights for something because it'll only be good until the party decided they want their fundamental rights back. Scrutiny over MLB and antitrust is as high as its ever been and only going to get higher...pro sports have been allowed to operate in a gray area and someone is going to force the issue sooner than later....nothing in life is constant except change.

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I disagree.
They aren't employees.
There is nothing to prevent the ncaa to make a player athletically ineligible. The ncaa does it all the time (years removed from high school, number of credit hours, GPA, impermissible benefits).

Regulating college athletics is within the purview of the ncaa/SEC.
Regulating NIL is not.

The ncaa easily could regulate the transfer rule to require a redshirt.
They have in the past (with a stupid, inconsistent waiver process. I suggest remove the waiver process. Any student with a diploma has earned special rights and immediate priviledges).

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The NCAA can do anything it chooses, the problem isn't what the NCAA does it is what attorneys for players and other schools do given that the NCAA was told recently that it really had no authority to do anything that its members did not agree with and if more than a few decided not to agree with the NCAA they will have a competitive advantage that all others will have to follow to keep up.

Regulating college athletics is only the purview of the NCAA as long as all parties agree to abide by that regulation....players ain't having it and some institutions aren't going to have it and they will grab a huge competitive advantage. Pro athletes are employees, their contracts have some leverage in them within the confine of the law. Universities want the best of both or worlds that they enjoyed for years but the courts have ruled...those days are rightfully over. The NCAA has no authority other than that agreed upon by member institutions and those institutions are being held at knifepoint by players and that leverage is only going to get worse not better because Universities are saddled with title iX and an alumni base that likes its sports. The players hold all of the cards, the programs fawn over them to get them on campus, they are treated like royalty for 3 years and hold all of the power and they are slowly realizing that.

I think players should play by the same rules as the coaches.

The same financial limits.
The same transfer limits.

If a coach moves from one program to another he has to sit out of coaching for 1 year unless it is within the same conference - then he sits out two years.

These coaches knew what they were getting into when they accepted the contract.