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MoverofFridge2

MoverofFridge2

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Has ruined the game of college football across this country. I realize this topic has been beaten to death, but I’m so f***** tired of seeing another player entering the portal. The NCAA is as or more corrupt than any organization in this country.
Don’t like your coach - enter the portal
Didn‘t get enough playing time - enter the portal
Team didn’t win enough - enter the portal.

The NCAA is to completely blame for all this bull$hit. There interest, in my opinion, is to create a system where there are about 6-8 power teams and to hell with the rest. And, btw, those 6-8 will be those that will bring huge fan bases to the playoff games where the most money can be made. I would bet my last dollar we have seen the last of the non power five schools, Cincy, make the four team playoff.

In my opinion, which really isn’t worth a damn, says you want to transfer, then your a$$ sits a year no questions asked. You have a hardship, your a$$ sits a year. I realize there are instances where a parent or close family member is sick and/or possibly passing away. If that’s the case, then that student athlete should spend his time looking out for his family and helping any way he can. Not using this excuse to transfer where he think he has a better chance to play/win. He can practice and go through all team related activities, but at the end of the day, his a$$ sits for a full year before he can play on Saturdays. This bull$hit is a joke and is ruining the game we all love.
 
I said it in another thread, but I’m hoping since all of these players have used their free year of eligibility now, this will calm down (outside of grad transfers every year).
 
Can't really argue with any of this. Also, when combined with NIL, the transfer portal becomes even more of a factor for "ruining" college football. Perhaps the silver lining will be that as most players struggle to land with another team it will reduce the yearly volume of kids entering the portal...
 
MACHETE said:
Can't really argue with any of this. Also, when combined with NIL, the transfer portal becomes even more of a factor for "ruining" college football. Perhaps the silver lining will be that as most players struggle to land with another team it will reduce the yearly volume of kids entering the portal...
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I think the flow will decrease but a significant number of these players overestimate their talent level.
If they are fortunate enough to land,they are locked in at the new school. Second time transfers who have to sit a year will have limited value especially with their five year clock ticking.
 
MoverofFridge2 said:
Has ruined the game of college football across this country. I realize this topic has been beaten to death, but I’m so f***** tired of seeing another player entering the portal. The NCAA is as or more corrupt than any organization in this country.
Don’t like your coach - enter the portal
Didn‘t get enough playing time - enter the portal
Team didn’t win enough - enter the portal.

The NCAA is to completely blame for all this bull$hit. There interest, in my opinion, is to create a system where there are about 6-8 power teams and to hell with the rest. And, btw, those 6-8 will be those that will bring huge fan bases to the playoff games where the most money can be made. I would bet my last dollar we have seen the last of the non power five schools, Cincy, make the four team playoff.

In my opinion, which really isn’t worth a damn, says you want to transfer, then your a$$ sits a year no questions asked. You have a hardship, your a$$ sits a year. I realize there are instances where a parent or close family member is sick and/or possibly passing away. If that’s the case, then that student athlete should spend his time looking out for his family and helping any way he can. Not using this excuse to transfer where he think he has a better chance to play/win. He can practice and go through all team related activities, but at the end of the day, his a$$ sits for a full year before he can play on Saturdays. This bull$hit is a joke and is ruining the game we all love.
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Well stated, sir! And I especially agree with this statement, "The NCAA is as or more corrupt than any organization in this country."

GO JACKETS!
 
MACHETE said:
Can't really argue with any of this. Also, when combined with NIL, the transfer portal becomes even more of a factor for "ruining" college football. Perhaps the silver lining will be that as most players struggle to land with another team it will reduce the yearly volume of kids entering the portal...
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damn….I didn’t even think of the NIL. That bull$hit is a whole other freakin topic. Just another way of trashing college football.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
I think the flow will decrease but a significant number of these players overestimate their talent level.
If they are fortunate enough to land,they are locked in at the new school. Second time transfers who have to sit a year will have limited value especially with their five year clock ticking.
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I can’t remember the exact number Brentwood, but I believe there are currently over 3400 that have yet to land ANYWHERE. Most 19 year old kids dont have a damn clue, in my opinion, what they are doing. Plus, mom and dads are buying in to all this portal and NIL horse$hit
 
People like Jahmyr Gibbs who end up playing for multiple colleges will end up killing cfb. I basically don’t care about him anymore even though he spent a couple seasons with us.

The one-and-done rule in CBB didn’t really turn me off but this transfer portal era stuff certainly does. How in the hell is a casual fan supposed to remember where big time players started out in college and transferred etc…? The NCAA has killed the game I used to be fanatical about.

“oh there goes Marbury III, he was a stud atCal then transferred to Alabama”.

nobody will care about these guys. I’m one of them
 
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wesleyd21 said:
People like Jahmyr Gibbs who end up playing for multiple colleges will end up killing cfb. I basically don’t care about him anymore even though he spent a couple seasons with us.

The one-and-done rule in CBB didn’t really turn me off but this transfer portal era stuff certainly does. How in the hell is a casual fan supposed to remember where big time players started out in college and transferred etc…? The NCAA has killed the game I used to be fanatical about.
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Exactly. Had Gibbs gone to Bama initially he would have rode the pine. I personally hope he doesn’t get much playing time
 
I don't blame the NCAA, they fended off this for a long time (lost year of eligibility for transfering and so forth.). If you want someone to blame, blame the players. Players have been demanding pay (NIL) for years. As for the portal, no one is making players go through it, they are leaping (in lots of cases blindly) into it. Blame the 'Me generation', some players have zero loyalty to a school [unlike us fans who remain with a school for life].

What is the advantage of this to the NCAA? Less than a dozen power teams, even if they have a million die hard fans each you are looking at low TV ratings in the future.
 
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jts1207 said:
Exactly. Had Gibbs gone to Bama initially he would have rode the pine. I personally hope he doesn’t get much playing time
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I don't bear any ill will to the kids that enter the portal. I had an issue with Jordan Domenick's timing but according to GoGATech, he kept the staff appraised of his intentions - would have been nice to know that before the announcement but whatever.

As the saying goes, don't hate the player, hate the game - in other words, the System which, MoF2 suggests has been rigged via a series of off-the-record horse trades financed by the deep SEC pockets and, lo, the rest of us wake up in a new world that we have no place in.

And there you have it.
 
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I want the NCAA to publicly encourage students and coaches to exercise the powers granted to them. Scholarships are yearly commitments and the practice of coaches not renewing them should be normalized and accepted as SOP just as students freely transferring.
 
gtchief said:
I want the NCAA to publicly encourage students and coaches to exercise the powers granted to them. Scholarships are yearly commitments and the practice of coaches not renewing them should be normalized and accepted as SOP just as students freely transferring.
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Exactly, you lose an academic scholarship pretty quickly if you don't perform academically. Need to make it the same for athletic scholarships, you don't perform to expectations athletically then good bye scholarship. And no, just attending practice and team activities isn't enough; you either make reasonable progress towards becoming a starter or you don't, the coaches decide.
 
aeromech said:
Exactly, you lose an academic scholarship pretty quickly if you don't perform academically. Need to make it the same for athletic scholarships, you don't perform to expectations athletically then good bye scholarship. And no, just attending practice and team activities isn't enough; you either make reasonable progress towards becoming a starter or you don't, the coaches decide.
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Yes. The schools that hoard talent will not like this because it would allow less successful schools to flip their roster and entice more of the top's depth to transfer in for playing time, so I'd foresee them feigning indignance at the practice. We should not have to suffer clingers and bad kickers taking up a roster spot simply because of a stigma associated with releasing them early which is why I want open support/encouragement to come directly from the NCAA in some form
 
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MoverofFridge2 said:
Has ruined the game of college football across this country. I realize this topic has been beaten to death, but I’m so f***** tired of seeing another player entering the portal. The NCAA is as or more corrupt than any organization in this country.
Don’t like your coach - enter the portal
Didn‘t get enough playing time - enter the portal
Team didn’t win enough - enter the portal.

The NCAA is to completely blame for all this bull$hit. There interest, in my opinion, is to create a system where there are about 6-8 power teams and to hell with the rest. And, btw, those 6-8 will be those that will bring huge fan bases to the playoff games where the most money can be made. I would bet my last dollar we have seen the last of the non power five schools, Cincy, make the four team playoff.

In my opinion, which really isn’t worth a damn, says you want to transfer, then your a$$ sits a year no questions asked. You have a hardship, your a$$ sits a year. I realize there are instances where a parent or close family member is sick and/or possibly passing away. If that’s the case, then that student athlete should spend his time looking out for his family and helping any way he can. Not using this excuse to transfer where he think he has a better chance to play/win. He can practice and go through all team related activities, but at the end of the day, his a$$ sits for a full year before he can play on Saturdays. This bull$hit is a joke and is ruining the game we all love.
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The days a college amateur sports is over and done with. It is indeed a sad day when a quality education to a great school like Georgia Tech means nothing to the majority of high school athletes nowadays. My love for amateur college sports began in 1958 when I saw my very first college football game at Grant Field, that day I became a Georgia Tech fan and have not wavered in my support for the Yellow Jackets. Universities and Colleges throughout the country make it too easy on the recruits now.
 
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