Transfer Portal and NIL has killed our once loved college sports. It’s hard to keep up on who’s where nowadays. Also see more and more that adults just give these young people atrocious advice. How about the kid at Tennessee holding out for $4 million and getting dismissed. Well today he signed with UCLA, who hasn’t been good in my lifetime, for wayyy less than what he was making at Tennessee. It’s insane!
College Sports as we know it is gone…
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I'm a Virginia Tech guy. I used to be able to name everyone on their 2 deep in football, and every single player on the basketball team. Nowadays I can't even remember most of the starters. It's hard to get invested in even a program that I love as much as VT, when I don't know when they're going to leave.
Don't disagree but the schools and NCAA are to blame. They knew what would happen if kids got smart and sued, they knew they were profiting off the kids in an illegal fashion, they knew the gravy train would end eventually, and they collectively did nothing. Every jerkoff there just shrugged their shoulders and hoped they were gone or retired by the time it became an issue so it was someone else's problem which encapsulates the entirety of upper management in America today.
The NIL will never go away nor should it, pros can make money off their name and likeness so why would we not allow legal adults anywhere else to do the same? But the portal, the portal can be minimized heavily if schools simply recognized athletes as employees. Make them employees, sign them to multi-year deals with buyouts, and this more or less kills the absurdity of the portal. But hey, take a wild guess what schools don't want to do.
All the fault for this can be placed squarely at the feet of school presidents and the NCAA.
The NIL will never go away nor should it, pros can make money off their name and likeness so why would we not allow legal adults anywhere else to do the same? But the portal, the portal can be minimized heavily if schools simply recognized athletes as employees. Make them employees, sign them to multi-year deals with buyouts, and this more or less kills the absurdity of the portal. But hey, take a wild guess what schools don't want to do.
All the fault for this can be placed squarely at the feet of school presidents and the NCAA.
I saw a great video from Coach JB (coach from one of the seasons of Last Chance U) about the young man who tragically passed away and played at LSU. Everyone was appalled at the headline “COWARD” (and I don’t necessarily agree due to it’s insensitivity to the family) but the context of the video was awesome and must hear for a lot of these adults working with student athletes. The whole system is at fault (NCAA, NIL, coaches, parents, etc.).
It is professional sports. You get paid. You are a professional. They just need to start signing the players to contracts as minor league sports teams.
I see Zach Rice from LCA is in the portal now…crazy to think he was ranked as the #1 OT in nation just 3 cycles ago.
Not even talking down on the young man but he ain’t been the same since that Phoebus game.
Great post. What did Tennessee do last year that makes the player worth that kind of money? Did the player read his college football history book? It has been 20 years since any player on a west coast team was allowed to lay a finger on the championship trophy and that was only 1 team. USC. Before that you need your Wayback Machine. The 1991 Washington Huskies.
Today players have a fake, phony and imagined power because of NIL and the portal. Ask Nick. The Saban one. Team chemistry is on life support if you have the proper leadership training to revive it. The lesson for sports fans is to just be very careful of what you talk about. Some of you have enough grey gray hair to remember the very first conversations concerning paying college athletes. Now you don't actually need to pay college football players. The right one only needs to demand that they are paid. ESPN will do the rest. How much did Bronny make in high school and have you seen him lately?