BleedThatBlue

May 1st, 2024 at 8:31 PM ^

Time to take a step back in off season and recruiting. The NIL and NCAA has seemingly made this into a joke where kids cans transfer and transfer back within a semester now, regardless what the reason may be. The lack of non-existent rules has really made the recruiting part dumb. Anyways, good luck AW. Welcome back, big dog. 

Blueisgood

May 1st, 2024 at 8:49 PM ^

I'm not into defending the NCAA, but they would prefer none of this was going on. The courts have told them to fuck off, you can't stop it. There's only one way to stop the constant transfers now. It's paying them and signing them to contracts. It's never going back to the old system, so we, the fan, either accept it, or stop watching. 

DHughes5218

May 1st, 2024 at 8:59 PM ^

I don’t like it, but I’m still going to watch. If you want to brag that the students at my school are better at football than the students at your school, then you’ll need to start watching club football. Do we even have a team?

Google tells me that Central Georgia Technical College defeated Ohio state in the national championship game last year. I looked it up to see if it’s already been corrupted and I don’t think there’s a more confusing result to answer my question. Central Georgia Tech winning it all says no, but OSU being the runner up screams yes. 

BleedThatBlue

May 1st, 2024 at 9:16 PM ^

NCAA had every and I mean it, every opportunity to fix this Wild Wild West. So while I get your argument that they didn’t want this to happen, they also shouldn’t have kept their heads buried. Fans saw it coming. Coaches and players saw it coming. Why was the ncaa not trying to get ahold of this? Why not listen to Harbaugh’s idea’s that are now becoming a reality? Had NCAA been preemptive and adopting policies, I don’t think the state of football would be where it’s at. 

Blueisgood

May 1st, 2024 at 9:47 PM ^

Anything but making them employees, and signing contracts is moot. They could have tried something different, but at the end of the day, it'd take one court case and they'd say fuck off, they can do what they want. With the money being made these days, there's no other argument. The players are nothing without the brand, and the brand is nothing without the players. They are adults. The brand is making boatloads of cash of the players backs. Its a job. I think scholarships should factor into the payscale, but I do wonder if they will be required to play school.   

College football is NFL lite. It has been for some time. Its going to be even more like the NFL in the years to come, probably sooner then later. It'll be interesting to see what happens. The NCAA could have done something to stop the wild wild west, but in the end we end up with contracted employees anyway.    

LeCheezus

May 2nd, 2024 at 2:06 AM ^

Why didn't they do anything?  Because the "they" is a bunch of overpaid administrators that saw a few more years to ride a gravy train.  Have you ever worked for a big company slowly tanking and all of the employees know it?  Everything pretty much goes along "business as usual" until the doors close.