The Dark Side of NIL and Portal Transfers

MeatWrench said:
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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I think the data should be compared with pre-portal data (before 2018) to get an idea of how many student-athletes quit sports or just dropped out all together and see if those numbers account for some of that 55% attrition. Some kids just decide 1) they aren't good enough at the sport 2) the sacrifices of the sport aren't worth it and/or 3) they aren't interested in pursuing the sport or college in general.

I think the portal may just be an added step in the process of realizing a different life path for some people and that segment is likely some part of that number.

But either way, 55% does seem like a lot.

What I think could be very interesting is data on transfers where a player goes from a program where they are already successful such as Eric Singleton at Tech to another program where they take a big risk of not being as productive such as Nate McCullom.

Arguably, McCullom's NFL stock is not nearly as high as it would have been had he stayed at Tech. I'm not sure what his motivations were for the transfer but if it was money, it likely cost him a lot more than he made.

The Singleton situation will be interesting to see how it pans out.
 
I'll be surprised if they don't move the transfer portal window till AFTER the CFB playoffs are complete in the very near future, especially with this Marshall situation. Status quo is comically absurd and not sustainable IMHO.
 
Vespid said:
I'll be surprised if they don't move the transfer portal window till AFTER the CFB playoffs are complete in the very near future, especially with this Marshall situation. Status quo is comically absurd and not sustainable IMHO.
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If you leave it like it is, it hurts the factories. So duh, of course we need to change it.

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Washington State loses 5 players to portal including starting QB and star freshman RB. Head Coach hits the portal and is leaving for Wake Forrest which will likely lead to more player defections.

I feel bad for Wazoo. They've had a rough couple of years.
 
Buzzilla said:
Washington State loses 5 players to portal including starting QB and star freshman RB. Head Coach hits the portal and is leaving for Wake Forrest which will likely lead to more player defections.

I feel bad for Wazoo. They've had a rough couple of years.
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I don't. They had a decent coach in Nick Rolovich and got rid of him over him not wanting to get the vaccine. They ended up with egg on their face and haven't really been the same since.
 
georgiatech22 said:
I don't. They had a decent coach in Nick Rolovich and got rid of him over him not wanting to get the vaccine. They ended up with egg on their face and haven't really been the same since.
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A quick google search shows that he was 5-6 as a head coach at Washington State. Since being fired in 2021 he has not coached anywhere. It shows that he has been hired as an offensive assistant at California for the 2025 season. A coach can’t expect his team to follow his instructions if he won’t follow the instructions of his superiors.
 
Nehru Jacket said:
A quick google search shows that he was 5-6 as a head coach at Washington State. Since being fired in 2021 he has not coached anywhere. It shows that he has been hired as an offensive assistant at California for the 2025 season. A coach can’t expect his team to follow his instructions if he won’t follow the instructions of his superiors.
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but it does show that he has basic common sense
 
georgiatech22 said:
I don't. They had a decent coach in Nick Rolovich and got rid of him over him not wanting to get the vaccine. They ended up with egg on their face and haven't really been the same since.
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I feel less bad for WSU now. There was so much of that nonsense going on at the time I wasn't aware of it. Apparently there is still an ongoing federal lawsuit. Likely explains why he has been out of coaching until this year.
 
Nehru Jacket said:
My point is that he wasn’t that good of a coach or somebody would have hired him. Aaron Rodgers had no trouble finding a job when he said he wouldn’t take the vaccine.
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this is probably a good point.

i think i remember him suing WSU. not sure if he won but that might have something to do with the layoff period.
 
This is nuts...
 

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justafan said:
The Cadillac SUV pickups from practice is the kicker
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I read that to mean general access to a driver and Cadillac during the time period from Spring Practice to the end of the regular season. But pretty crazy either way.
 
Nehru Jacket said:
My point is that he wasn’t that good of a coach or somebody would have hired him. Aaron Rodgers had no trouble finding a job when he said he wouldn’t take the vaccine.
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Before he went to WSU, he was the HC at Hawaii for 4 seasons where he led them to 3 bowl games in 4 years, won 2 of them and finished off with a 10 win season in 2019. Anyone that can win 10 games at Hawaii is a damn good coach. The only other coach to do that this century was June Jones.
 
Nehru Jacket said:
A quick google search shows that he was 5-6 as a head coach at Washington State. Since being fired in 2021 he has not coached anywhere. It shows that he has been hired as an offensive assistant at California for the 2025 season. A coach can’t expect his team to follow his instructions if he won’t follow the instructions of his superiors.
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This is a clown post. Therefore I’m awarding you a clown.
 
coldbeer said:
This is nuts...
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I would not want to get "paid" in perks. Pretty sure you have to pay taxes on these things. And he's going to hate what tax bracket he's in at that salary range. That $700K is going to shrink pretty quickly with all these perks.
 
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