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re: The NCAA could have solved NIL 10 yrs ago...
Posted on 12/30/25 at 6:04 pm to Russianblue
Posted on 12/30/25 at 6:04 pm to Russianblue
The wide open transfer portal is the issue. These kids aren’t bolting in massive numbers if they have to sit out a year.
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Posted on 12/30/25 at 6:15 pm to TideSaint
Former AU Iron Bowl loser T.J. Finley has played at more schools than I have fingers.
Posted on 12/30/25 at 6:21 pm to RT1941
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The wide open transfer portal is the issue.
It’s impossible for these “student athletes” to earn a degree if they’re transferring every year. There are still residency requirements
Posted on 12/30/25 at 6:55 pm to Vecchio Cane
Without a binding contract, no amount of money, then or now, will satisfy these kids. Once you gave the mouse the cookie, 30k or 3 million, they will demand more and still more. You might have delayed it, but I doubt it. It would have just sped up the decline that we are seeing now.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:05 am to TriStateAreaFootball
You can limit a players earnings, you just need a CBA to do it. Short of CFB players unionizing, it will always be an athletes game.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 12:06 am
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:08 am to Russianblue
I'm so pissed at how they screwed up college sports I'm okay if athletes have to be "poor" again.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:58 am to Russianblue
A lot of that can be blamed on Title IX because there’s no way in hell they would let male NCAA athletes get paid big bucks and the female athletes not make equal.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:43 am to TriStateAreaFootball
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NIL isn't the problem.
The Transfer Portal is the fricking issue.
Say it again for the people in the back.
However, it ain't gonna change without Supreme Court approval because limiting their transfers would limit their earnings.
No other sport has unlimited free agency every year, and SCOTUS doesn't bother that.
Make every college athletic scholarship a 3 year binding commitment by the team and the player. Problem solved. Players already aren't NFL draft eligible for 3 years.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:46 am to LSUtigerNVegas9
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You can limit a players earnings, you just need a CBA to do it. Short of CFB players unionizing, it will always be an athletes game.
Federal law can be written to fix that. Actually saw an article about legislation Ted Cruz is trying to pass. Good for him. This is a billion dollar industry that deserves to be protected, like many others.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:40 am to Russianblue
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...and completely avoided all this mess.
I bet if the NCAA had come out proactively with a rev share or similar NIL style program back in 2015 and said "every player will make $30k a year for his services in addition to his scholarship", while that number probably would have crept up every year and would probably be $50k now, this whole thing could have been avoided.
Much of the catalyst here has been with dirt poor players barely being able to participate in college life due to MASSIVE poverty. I mean, the Charger only charges so much if you don't have gas money.
And let me be clear, no kid should be brought in as a show horse...to grind day to day and produce and exceptional results for his University, yet be a social pariah because he's got holes in his shoes. That's not right.
Either way, if they'd have put $50k in those kids' hands back then, we wouldn't be having these "end of College Football' conversations.
With college kids of my own, I shudder at the idea of some kids with even $1000. Forget $2 million. If my kid got $2 million right now, God help us all. I'd have gotten a full Lulu/Alo/Vuori wardrobe for Christmas (bc that's HER thing) and never worn any of it , but be CRYING at the money she blew on it.
Why haven't the state of Louisiana do something about their own state poverty and not have the money go towards LSU to support their sports?
Posted on 12/31/25 at 3:17 am to Slums_Alum
1.Can only transfer after full season! If it runs into another academic semester tuff!
2. One year contracts. If you leave before new institution owes you the difference.
3. Eliminate all the extras universities supply like barber shops, recording studies, food and board, cars, etc… pre NIL. If kid is making a million he can surely support himself.
4. Start holding them accountable academically. Quit letting them slide with tutors and teachers. If grades are bad will eliminate many from transferring easily with shitty grades. Many universities are currently just giving grades to players. They have more power than they realize!
2. One year contracts. If you leave before new institution owes you the difference.
3. Eliminate all the extras universities supply like barber shops, recording studies, food and board, cars, etc… pre NIL. If kid is making a million he can surely support himself.
4. Start holding them accountable academically. Quit letting them slide with tutors and teachers. If grades are bad will eliminate many from transferring easily with shitty grades. Many universities are currently just giving grades to players. They have more power than they realize!
Posted on 12/31/25 at 7:17 am to TrueLefty
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Why haven't the state of Louisiana do something about their own state poverty and not have the money go towards LSU to support their sports?
Every time a state or nation tries to institutionalize the elimination of poverty, upper class and middle class people are knocked down to poor class, the poor class is not elevated up.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 7:34 am to TideSaint
It’s both. NIL and the transfer portal.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 8:36 am to DeathByTossDive225
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Limit their earnings
So non-competes are fine for everyone else, but we can’t limit “amateur” football transfers tied to academic institutions
Non-competes pretty much get voided any time they get taken to court.
The purpose of a non-compete clause isn't to win in court. It's to make it annoying for the employee by forcing them to go to court.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 8:38 am to Russianblue
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:36 pm to DawginSC
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Non-competes pretty much get voided any time they get taken to court
This isn’t true. I am related to someone who became very wealthy, very quickly by starting their own business & then lost their whole arse over a non-compete. More or less ruined their life — Their original employer was the one who took them to court over it.
They’re also not all the same. Most of them are negotiated as part of employment contract, but more recently the “bulk” non-competes for non executives are not.
I suspect those are what you’re thinking of as that would be more difficult to defend in court & IMO shouldn’t be legal if not negotiated.
FCC attempted to ban non-negotiated noncompetes a few years back when Khan was chair.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 12:52 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
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To me, college athletics was the last bastion of both Southern and Conservative culture
I will point out that noted left-wing radical
Neil Gorsuch wrote the USSC decision in the NIL case and that radical Marxist Trotskyite Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrent opinion in which he signaled very strongly that he’d be willing to go even farther toward the athletes’ side. Fans are besotted by tradition and by feeling … naively IMO … that their support gives them an actual sense of ownership in the sport, and don’t understand this is a zillion-dollar business now, no different and no more special than any other zillion-dollar business, and the courts are treating it like any other zillion-dollar business.
The reason other sports leagues, which are also businesses, don’t have unlimited Wild West free agency is because the leagues and the players have mutually negotiated otherwise. And a negotiated agreement is the only way to fix it in college sports. But too many fans want something imposed on the players to by God bring them to heel and show them who’s boss.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:04 pm to BamaGradinTn
I agree that it needs to reigned in. IMHO they need two year contracts for HS kids. Then there So/Jr year depending on if they redshirt or not they can negotiate a new deal or get a 1 time free transfer.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:12 pm to TideSaint
Much as I think the guy is slimy, Calipari is right. One free transfer and then sit a year on subsequent ones.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 5:14 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
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However, it ain't gonna change without Supreme Court approval because limiting their transfers would limit their earnings.
And yet, somehow that same court says it’s just fine to force employees to sign non-competes and non-solicits.
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