I'm good with kids not being stuck like they have been historically but they better get on the transfer portal thing quickly to bring some order to the execution of it. I mean this isn't even professional sports. At least in the pros a player has a term that teams know when the contract ends etc to have some sort of management of situations...it's not a free for all every single year for each roster spot.
Yep. This is ridiculous. It’s also going to benefit the Alabama’s even more so.
Yeah, all they really have to do is change the 4 in 5 and keep the sit out. Transfer all you want, just have to sit out. But you don't lose your total years of eligibility. Heck, even if they made it a 6 game sit out it would be enough of a deterrent to just make it more legitimate transfers.
Kid can't stay healthy and went to 3 high schools. There seems to be a pattern.
There is zero excuse now in CFB if you are a traditional top 10, top 15 program fielding a team with any weak spots. Any position group in need of talent or experience can and should be filled up easily from taking guys off teams below yours. This is the reality of the portal plus NIL.
Of just make it that the portal is only open to you afte your second year in a program. Or if your coach is no longer there one of the two. Since the main reason for transferring are coaches leaving or your stuck on the depth chart, but you need to give it two years before that could be a valid reason.
Word is that Kayshon Boutte was about to hit the portal so he could transfer to Bama to play his final season with Bryce Young but LSU's boosters stepped in with a very large NIL deal to convince him to stay.
That's a shame. Young throwing to Boutte would've been fun to watch!
Agreed - now that we have an official college free agency (transfer portal) and approved salaries (NIL) for athletes, UK can now play the game others have been playing for years!
UK will not even be in the conversation for top NIL athletes. After Saban leaves and Bama has to rely on NIL they will not be getting the same guys either. Corporations with big pockets will funnel the players to their favorite school.
Not enough to outbid people like Nike, Fed Ex, T Boone Pickens group and hundreds of others with deeper pockets than UK alum. We will get second tier guys but not top5 once this thing gets rolling.
Unfortunately the net result of that is a slow deterioration of the sport itself for all and one that will have very little if anything to do with "UK" or any unversity itself as time goes by. Its the reason the colleges tried so hard to hang on to their amateur status as long as possible. But they ended up getting eaten by their own popularity of the game which drew all the mone which will harm the appeal over time.
It was a huge mistake for the NCAA/Emmert to just solely fight a battle to keep it all the same as it was. They could have been working on a solution that brought some order to the model and pay players for their NIL through the schools by setting rates in the player contracts etc. Instead, we've ended up with total chaos.
