Addison leaving Pitt

aeromech said:
I think it is time to subdivide college sports again. Have 12-32 team of NIL schools and have the rest go back to the non-NIL rules. There really is no way even all the P5 schools can survive NIL influence. Frankly I would rather see GT in the non-NIL group even if that means ending the series with UGA.
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I think we are headed in that direction, aero. We’ll have age group pro football, where teams are sponsored by some University athletic departments and maybe corporations; we may see Notre Dame or the Dwags schedule games against the Facebook Trolls or Tesla Tunderbolts. Everyone else plays ‘college football’, where players get athletic schollys and a nominal stipend.
 
aeromech said:
I think it is time to subdivide college sports again. Have 12-32 team of NIL schools and have the rest go back to the non-NIL rules. There really is no way even all the P5 schools can survive NIL influence. Frankly I would rather see GT in the non-NIL group even if that means ending the series with UGA.
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Agree. I don’t want to see Georgia Tech involved in that NIL and player portal nonsense. I’d rather be a college football team.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Allowing NIL coupled with the instant eligibility transfer is the dumbest ööööing öööö ever. Now kids openly demand more money in order to go to and or stay at a school. Supposedly this wasn’t going to directly impact recruitment… lolz. NCAA needs to sack up and start putting programs on probation when it’s brazen like this.
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It is pretty clear that the initial idea behind NIL and Portal wasn’t thought out very intelligently. Unless someone makes the decision to sit down and rethink this, it’s only going to get worse.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
It is pretty clear that the initial idea behind NIL and Portal wasn’t thought out very intelligently. Unless someone makes the decision to sit down and rethink this, it’s only going to get worse.
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It will be hard to put the genie back in the bottle I'm afraid. It should work out well for top 10% of programs which will make it harder to turn back. USC, Bama, UGA, etc.. are probably thinking this is great. ESPN will have to realize those top programs aren't going to add fans to make up for the lost fans from rest of college football in order push for the change.
 
aeromech said:
It will be hard to put the genie back in the bottle I'm afraid. It should work out well for top 10% of programs which will make it harder to turn back. USC, Bama, UGA, etc.. are probably thinking this is great. ESPN will have to realize those top programs aren't going to add fans to make up for the lost fans from rest of college football in order push for the change.
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It won't work out well for them if the new system alienates a good percentage of fans. Viewership will decrease and the TV money will start being cut.
 
gt2690b said:
what what? we left the SEC because we didn't want to be limited to 140 schollies... is that true?
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Yes. Bobby Dodd had a policy of granting unconditional 4 year scholarships… if you were injured on the first day of practice you kept your scholarship. Alabama and other SEC power would run off scholarship players that didn’t work out. Dodd felt like that put us at a disadvantage.
 
aeromech said:
It will be hard to put the genie back in the bottle I'm afraid. It should work out well for top 10% of programs which will make it harder to turn back. USC, Bama, UGA, etc.. are probably thinking this is great. ESPN will have to realize those top programs aren't going to add fans to make up for the lost fans from rest of college football in order push for the change.
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Any attempt to put NIL or transfer portal back on the shelf will be met with cries of racism. This is why both are here to stay and why college football is on its deathbed.
 
savbandjacket said:
Any attempt to put NIL or transfer portal back on the shelf will be met with cries of racism. This is why both are here to stay and why college football is on its deathbed.
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Well there are white players in college football and some of them are benefiting from NIL and the portal. How does that fit into your hyperbolic “cries of racism”.
 
savbandjacket said:
Any attempt to put NIL or transfer portal back on the shelf will be met with cries of racism. This is why both are here to stay and why college football is on its deathbed.
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I don't think that there will be cries of racism. But rather, the kids see now that they have a "market value" of sorts and severely restricting/doing away with/reworking the current NIL setup will be difficult to do. There are clearly a few handfuls of "schools" that have alumni that are more than happy to direct money to the (top) players.

I think the end game of this is a lot of schools realizing that the lopsided playing field of collegiate athletics is even more so and there will likely be a new semipro league of the aforementioned schools and some sort of athletic competition for schools like GT (unless they are happy being Vandy).
 
savbandjacket said:
Any attempt to put NIL or transfer portal back on the shelf will be met with cries of racism. This is why both are here to stay and why college football is on its deathbed.
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That’s already happening. I’ve seen comments on Twitter suggesting white peoples are only mad about NIL because people of color are the ones getting paid now.
 
GTWannaBee said:
That’s already happening. I’ve seen comments on Twitter suggesting white peoples are only mad about NIL because people of color are the ones getting paid now.
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There may be some validity to the argument that it makes a certain segment of college football fans angry that the players now have some of the power (money). As opposed to the past when it was the schools and their administrators that were benefiting the most.
 
How is this really any different from a coach leaving a school and going somewhere else for more money? We've accepted that a coach will pursue better opportunities for essentially the life of the sport, how is it any worse for a player to also seek out a better opportunity?
 
That is a battle royal between 2 annoying human beings Pat Narduzzi and Lincoln Riley.
 
USC is either arrogant, stupid or both. However the NCAA will do nothing because USC is more valuable than PItt from their perspective. At most, they will encourage Addison to take a comparable offer from UGA, Bama, ND, Ohio State or another power program to make the story disappear. They will tell USC to be more discreet in the future to ensure the illusion of fairness.
 
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