Nah, this is the NCAAs fault because they rode so hard for the student athlete charade. The NCAA should've treated these guys as employees, set up more player friendly transfer rules (the sitting out a year shyt is a punishment and another point of leverage for coaches) and given them stipends attached to academic performance. Indeed, they could've pursued that path after the Northwestern players voted to unionize.
Instead, they insisted that playing on the plantation was compensation enough for these poor, benighted negroes who would've never had the opportunity otherwise to obtain an education. All the while ruining the game through non-sensical realignment schemes driven by TV dollars and allowing an unlimited transfer portal for coaches. When people cut their own dikks off, I have no interest in them complaining about the pain.
I would like to hear what yall think the answers are.
if it's go back to the system we had before, I can't get with it. if it's players need to be locked into the deals under the current NIL way of doing business, I can't really get with it either. these coaches are allowed to get the fukk out and go somewhere else whenever they want. if I'm a student, not a student athlete, just a regular student I'm allowed to transfer schools (and not have to sit out a year of my education). same goes for if I'm an employee, which is what these athletes essentially are, I'm allowed to look for a new job.
why should these guys be treated differently than anyone else? just for your enjoyment of the college product and the fans/boosters of the school?
the only thing I can really think of is them being signed to actual real 4 year/multiyear contracts and if that is the road we go down then they need to be getting paid real money from the school, not just NIL shyt from the outside.
I understand the criticism yall have and believe it comes from the right place, I do not believe Ted Cruz or Nick Saban are truly upset with the new rules for the same reasons yall are though.
At the end the end of the day, these nikkas still college students, u kno how many nikkas are sitting in the transfer portal right now who are fukking off their education chasing playtime? There’s thousands of students in the transfer portal who ain’t getting signed, and probably are not gonna graduate
Whether nikkas like to admit it or not, transfer portal and NIL in its iteration is causing problems. Texas A&M threw bread at multiple freshman, nikkas were on IG doing 100 in a parking garage and hot boxing the locker room.
If u guys align with these players getting paid and compare it to guys like Smart, Harbaugh and Saban, these lil nikkas gon have to produce like it, everyone who clammers for the system to stay the same would also cry and complain if they cut or released players for shytty play (which is happening right now, see what I just said about how deep the transfer portal is)
Saban is warning everyone how the system is gonna end up just like the NFL, which will effectively kill the essence of college sports, for every 1 Cam Newton or Lamar Jackson, there are 5,000 Phillip Lutzenkirchens. College football would effectively be over for dudes like that and schools like Stanford who don’t have the bread slotted to sports to compete
And nikkas yellin cac this cac that
My solutions are:
NIL partnerships should be public info just like Saban and Deion’s salary
Players can transfer without waiver anytime a coaching change or university scandal occurs
The transfer portal window needs to be changed to not leave so many students in the portal
If the current system continues, P5 is just gonna break away from the rest of college football on some champions league shyt which is awful for the sport
