BuckeyeGoon

I was in the stadium when Tennessee came up here and they honestly didn't look too much better than Kent state or ball state.

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But “the school creates most of the value” and “the players have no market value” are two completely different arguments. Clearly the players have market value because schools, boosters, collectives and sponsors have shown they’re willing to spend a ton of money competing for their services.

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Sure but lets say hypothetically 4 and 5 star recruits were off the table for everyone, because they entered their own minor league system, the boosters and donors would still spend millions on 2 and 3 star recruits because those would be the best available players they can get for college football. Its not about the specific players or how talented they are, the only real NIL value these kids have is when they put on an LSU or Ohio State or Miami jersey and get to piggyback off all the tradition/history/fanbases that jersey represents.

Lane is still a decent coach but LSU fans were acting like Lane showing up was the same as when Saban arrived at Alabama or when Urban arrived at Ohio State, and you knew they would win national championships at their new schools. Lane might turn out to be a better coach than he's been so far, but he's far from guaranteed national championships like a lot of LSU fans were bragging he was all off-season.

Nebraska really needed to stay in a conference with some Texas schools. They are in a recruiting deadzone and cut off the pipeline they had to Texas talent.

Nebraska and Oklahoma were both always really random places for blueblood programs to develop, relatively low populated areas with almost zero in state talent to recruit from and states that dont have great weather. At least Oklahoma was smart enough to stay tied to the state of Texas.

If the best defense you have for this behavior is its "not actual twerking", then its probably not appropriate for an elementary school classroom.

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That was peak Ryan Day experience.

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He tried to blow a 31-7 lead against notre dame in the national championship game a couple years ago. I dont think enough was ever made about the late game collapse in that one, that game should not have come down to the wire at the end of the 4th quarter like it did.

At this point I dont think he's ever going to develop a killer instinct.

Dipping a single toe into the NFL pool should have immediately ended your college football eligibility this entire time. None of the training camp guys or tryouts or practice squad or whatever else you want to call them should be playing college football right now.

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Did I just agree with Stephen A?

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The guy who makes a living saying insane and ridiculous stuff takes up your position, and you see it as a win.

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Zxavian Harris received $190.

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From the nfl? So he's ineligible for college football.

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So, again, why are they the only one being threatened?

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LSU is the only team pressing the issue and challenging the league. As far as I know none of the other examples of the NFL washouts returning to college actually received any NFL money like the LSU guys did. Personally I think all of them should be ineligible too, but if we have to use money/contracts to draw the line thats fine. Thats the difference between the LSU guys and the other teams that keep getting brought up.

The conferences know this is a losing battle for the ncaa, they have to be allowed to establish their own arbitrary rules for governing their teams. If miles garrett for example wanted to return to college football and challenged the ncaa, he would eventually win and all eligibility rules would be destroyed. There's no legal black and white reason why former professional players cant return to play college football. Its all arbitrary and thats ok, it needs to be. The conferences need to be able to establish arbitrary rules on who can and cant play.

You can call this a slippery slope argument or whatever but the sec and other conferences know how serious it is and thats why they all took action as soon as the NFL washouts got the idea of returning to college football.