Johnny Boyziel 2 said:

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There needs to be an emphasis on academics and graduation rate like there used to be. Didn't schools used to receive penalties if they fell behind here?

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MaxPower said:

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The entire system stopped making sense once schools turned it into a profitable business. They wanted the revenue from operating a business but not the expenses. You can't really have any government entity effectively running a private enterprise without massive problems.

I think the law that makes the most sense is to have student athletes create a union without having to be employees. That allows them to collectively bargain to get rules in place that work for both sides and adds legal rigor to the rules they decide upon.

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MaxPower said:

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That's why I said you need lawmakers. They would effectively have to force them to unionize. No clue how well that holds up in court but anything that is done at this point will result in a lawsuit.

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Halconblack said:

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Lawmakers have to do something to fix this. I don't care about "limiting an individual's right to earn their market value." There is not gonna be any college football left.

The Athletic is literally reporting that Tennessee is "reaching out" to the starting QB at TCU, and the NCAA can do nothing about it. Everyone may ***** about the NCAA but the courts have stripped them of the power to do anything.

The NCAA, or whoever, needs limited anti-trust to fix this mess or the whole thing goes down the toilet.

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Charlie 31 said:

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Johnny Boyziel 2 said:

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There needs to be an emphasis on academics and graduation rate like there used to be. Didn't schools used to receive penalties if they fell behind here?

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NCAA college football is no longer about "student" athletes or academics.

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Halconblack said:

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Lawmakers have to do something to fix this. I don't care about "limiting an individual's right to earn their market value." There is not gonna be any college football left.

The Athletic is literally reporting that Tennessee is "reaching out" to the starting QB at TCU, and the NCAA can do nothing about it. Everyone may ***** about the NCAA but the courts have stripped them of the power to do anything.

The NCAA, or whoever, needs limited anti-trust to fix this mess or the whole thing goes down the toilet.

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ElephantRider said:

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The old system was broken. There's no reason players shouldn't get a piece of the pie, and the bigger schools were paying them anyways. But making it a free for all and adding the transfer portal on top of it is not the solution.

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Ghost91 said:

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Halconblack said:

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"limiting an individual's right to earn their market value."

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This philosophy is fine when the product and the "worker" are two separate entities. It goes out the window in sports where the product IS the worker (or in this case, the player).

We want to watch the players that we recruit and see what happens over their 3-4 years. That's literally the "product" of college football for us consumers.
We don't want to watch a new lineup of players on our team every year, nor do we want to watch players that we've grown to love or hate moving all over the place. That's a crap product.

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ahpetty33 said:

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The courts ruled against a system that was always illegal. As fans we can feel like something was "taken away from us" when the courts neutered the NCAA. But it's absolutely the NCAA's fault for their egregious lack of foresight. If they had instituted revenue sharing long ago we would have had a carefully implemented framework, and fans would not have been conditioned over time to hate the idea of student athletes getting paid

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Seamaster said:

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Its truly awful. I don't think the NCAA and programs grasp what a huge turn off all of this is.

So, the supreme court ruled that players can make money on their name, likeness and image.

Fine.

But the supreme court hasn't ruled (and would not rule) that the NCAA doesn't have the right to establish rules regulating how and when athletes can transfer. Just making and enforcing sensible rules would fix a lot of this. Its still very gross that 18 year old's can get recruited to the highest bidder but at least make it so that they can't be free agents 100% of the time.

Some sensible rules:

1) Once enrolled at a university, if you transfer, you sit out a year.
2) An exception to this would be if your head coach leaves his position.
3) You are allowed one transfer during your 4 years of eligibility.
4) 4 years of eligibility actually means 4 years of eligibility. You get one redshirt year but if you compete for more than a half of a game, that counts as one of 4 years used.

And then, with all the money stuff, the idiots paying the NIL money should insist on contracts. You repay or have a buy out if you want to leave.

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EKG1996 said:

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I'm surprised a head coach would speak openly like this about a player but I guess that is where we are. Seems like the Aggies could use another WR? Any of you guys have a couple million you want to set on fire?


Syracuse Head Coach Fran Brown blasts WR Pena over NIL Dispute

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Bluecat_Aggie94 said:

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Pro football players can't even do what college players can do.

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