The Dark Side of NIL and Portal Transfers

[Buzzilla]

I figure this topic should have its own thread. Let's track and discuss the unexpected impacts of the radical evolution of college football.

Marshall backs out of Independence Bowl after losing their head coach and 36 players to the portal. 11-2 Army will now play 5-7 La. Tech.

Army deserves better.

Marshall goes from Sunbelt Champions to a complete and total rebuild.

 

[EagleSting]

At this point it'd be easy to discuss what hasn't changed...As soon as I figure out what that is...

 

[theStingT]

Kid transferring so many times that he ends up working on a garbage truck. Of course thats the same as playing 6 years at the cesspool, so I guess that hasnt changed

 

[GTsapper]

I figure this topic should have its own thread. Let's track and discuss the unexpected impacts of the radical evolution of college football.

Marshall backs out of Independence Bowl after losing their head coach and 36 players to the portal. 11-2 Army will now play 5-7 La. Tech.

Army deserves better.

Marshall goes from Sunbelt Champions to a complete and total rebuild.

Marshall deserves what happened to them. There was no reason to let that coach go.

 

[NatiJacket]

The portal should open after the bowls, no reason to open the floodgates now vs a month later.

 

[Akıncı]

The portal should open after the bowls, no reason to open the floodgates now vs a month later.

I like it but kids who want to transfer will sit out.

 

[andrew]

The portal should open after the bowls, no reason to open the floodgates now vs a month later.

It sounds like a joke, but isn't the reason school? Opening the floodgates after the deadline to enroll at most schools sounds problematic.

I know CFB is basically a pro sport at this point, but right now all of the processes are still set up based on players being students and it's probably not easy to change that, especially without opening up another giant can of worms.

 

[Diseqc]

Lots of kids enter the portal every year and don’t find a new home. Their football (and college) career ends real quick.

 

[ETBee]

Anyone have stats on that? While I suspect it happens, what kind of percentages are we talking about?

 

[Tampa Jacket]

I figure this topic should have its own thread. Let's track and discuss the unexpected impacts of the radical evolution of college football.

Marshall backs out of Independence Bowl after losing their head coach and 36 players to the portal. 11-2 Army will now play 5-7 La. Tech.

Army deserves better.

Marshall goes from Sunbelt Champions to a complete and total rebuild.

It all started with the insane coaching salaries. If they had just capped the coaching salaries college football would still be great.

 

[ClubSeats]

Kid transferring so many times that he ends up working on a garbage truck. Of course thats the same as playing 6 years at the cesspool, so I guess that hasnt changed

It’s not the same, I’d much rather work on the garbage truck

 

[andrew]

It all started with the insane coaching salaries. If they had just capped the coaching salaries college football would still be great.

Or it would have all collapsed earlier because the coaches would have sued the NCAA for antitrust violations.

 

[BrentwoodJacket]

It sounds like a joke, but isn't the reason school? Opening the floodgates after the deadline to enroll at most schools sounds problematic.

I know CFB is basically a pro sport at this point, but right now all of the processes are still set up based on players being students and it's probably not easy to change that, especially without opening up another giant can of worms.

Football players do not go through the normal enrollment process. Classes have a drop/add process for several weeks after classes start. This is less of an issue than changing schools multiple years in a row.
Players should be limited to one transfer without repercussions. Additional transfers should require sitting out for a season.

 

[GTRules]

I like it but kids who want to transfer will sit out.

This is the way.

 

[gambler]

I like it but kids who want to transfer will sit out.

Even better, how about nobody signs a kid who thinks he is a great football player and other teams should clamor over him yet he refuses to play the sport he thinks he's good playing.

This is really solvable, just like idiots lining up to buy housing at $300 a sq ft but complaining $325 is just too expensive.

 

[gtleviathan]

I like it but kids who want to transfer will sit out.

And they will have clearly and unambiguously quit on their team for the world to see. No “but the system forces me to enter the portal now so someone else doesn’t take my place on my preferred team.”

 

[GTLiebs]

And they will have clearly and unambiguously quit on their team for the world to see.

And no one will care.

 

[GT65_UGA89]

I am not one of those fans who typically follows recruiting. However, ST has always made it pretty easy to keep up with. My mentality has pretty much been, show me the depth chart in August and Let’s Go!

On a personal level, I’d prefer to get back to that approach, but in the era of hyper-transfer portal you almost have to keep up with it. If you don’t then come depth chart and game time you’ll be wondering what happened to player A, B, C, or what happened to our DL, etc.?

 

[MeatWrench]

Anyone have stats on that? While I suspect it happens, what kind of percentages are we talking about?

Looks like the data set is bigger than football but here is something from Sept that says 55% don’t find a new team / wash out of athletics. I’m not sure how to take that. How can athletics lose 55% of its participants each year and not shrink overall? If the attrition rate of graduates is roughly offset by the incoming freshman class? Maybe Im not accounting for something to do with grad school. Maybe there’s still some COVID year impacts and the college athletic ranks are and I’m wrongly extrapolating a trend from a single year of data. Maybe I need more coffee.

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[GTRules]

Looks like the data set is bigger than football but here is something from Sept that says 55% don’t find a new team / wash out of athletics. I’m not sure how to take that. How can athletics lose 55% of its participants each year and not shrink overall? If the attrition rate of graduates is roughly offset by the incoming freshman class? Maybe Im not accounting for something to do with grad school. Maybe there’s still some COVID year impacts and the college athletic ranks are and I’m wrongly extrapolating a trend from a single year of data. Maybe I need more coffee.

Transfer Portal Turbulence Is On The Rise. Are College Sports Prepared? - RealResponse

By Hannah Dewey, Director of Business Development, Collegiate Athletics at RealResponse Free agency. Endorsement deals. Trade deadlines. These hallmarks of professional sports have become untethered from the big leagues. Thanks to milestone rulings around the transfer portal and name, image and...

www.realresponse.com

Apparently 55% of athletes that enter the portal don't find new teams. Not 55% of all athletes.