this would be a great way for a player to collect NCAA football jerseys!
This is such a bad idea. If they do this, they need to also bring back the sit one year if you transfer. If they do this without bringing that back, get ready for super teams and top heavy sports to a level that no one has ever seen
How could they do this and bring back the sit one year if you transfer? Aren't those contradictory?
Yeah, I don't understand what he's suggesting.
It's always been possible to transfer, as many times as you could fit in your window of eligibility. But until recently you had to sit a year whenever you did. Then they made the first transfer a free one. Now they're proposing that second (and third...) transfers also be free.
Yes, they are contradictory and that's why it's necessary. Without it you have literally unlimited and unregulated free agency every off season
If they do this, they need to also bring back the sit one year if you transfer.
This sentence is why we're confused. How can they both do this and not do this?
I agree with your line of thinking, but there are only three teams with enough talent to really have a chance right now. I don't see how it can get much worse.
The NCAA is just trolling the universities at this point.
"Oh, you guys didn't like our rules? Ok, here you go. Pay players whatever you want. Unlimited transfers. No scholarship limits. Just go do whatever the f@#! you want and leave us the f@#! out of it!"
Exactly. I took this to mean the NCAA doesn't want to do anything other than sit in a chair in an office and play minesweeper on the computer until its time to clock out. They don't do anything. Like, anything. Ever.
Laziest fucking institution I've ever seen...
Oh come on! Be fair!
They put the Basketball bracket together!
Bingo. Not even sure about any relevance for the NCAA other than conducting year-end tournaments/playoffs, and that role could be displaced by a new group. Two cases in point: 1) NIT was previously the tournament to declare the de facto national champ and displaced by the NCAA, and 2) LIV threatening to displace the PGA as the premier pro circuit.
Amateurism? Gone. Enforcement of rule violations? Gone. Equal competitive standards like scholarship limits? Gone. Equal eligibility standards? Gone.
If they were going to move away from the one freebie statute, I really expected it to go in the direction of zero, rather than ... infinite. I suppose those are equally extreme numerical values, but, damn, this seems dumb.
To be clear, from the NCAA's perspective, it seemed like they only embraced the one-freebie rule to improve their positioning in court after losing the Bannon case. At this point, haven't they lost it all, rendering this positioning futile?
And then from the perspective of those who actually enjoy the game, I was fully cool with the one-freebie move in the pre-NIL environment. It was a form of power for the athletes and therefore a modicum of justice. But in the NIL environment, it feels problematic, like a potential corruption multiplier.
Yep, it will be NIL Gone Wild!
College athletics is dead.
Just the revenue sports.
Its death was set into motion the moment someone decided that everyone but the players could cash in on their labor. No matter how you slice it, that model was not sustainable. And now that even the pretense of amateurism is falling away, there's no going back.
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But it WAS sustainable...
and it was WORKING...
And most of these kids could use the degree.
Everything is being tailored to the top 5% of players.
Lawmakers and Lawyers and middlemen destroyed college football.
So I'm going Hawaii>SDSU>ASU>Michigan.
You have a redshirt year in there too!
Hawaii --> SDSU --> UCLA ---> Arizona State ---> Michigan.
Arizona state is pretty much a year off...
Idk a year off for Sr Year of school on ASUs campus seems nice...
Except with the insanity of our credit transfer policy, you’ll still have to complete 4 years at Michigan even with 3 years of college under your belt. 7 years of college seems like a hell of a time
a lot of people go to college for seven years
I know. They're called "doctors".
....or Badgers.
You could also insert "Spartans" in there for the joke, but we know that would be inaccurate as that would be more like 9-10 years.
Shut up, Richard..
Richard!... You never told me you were a Dick!
Not that you had to.
Or Blutarsky.
You could get even more. This rule doesn't seem to limit transfers to once per year. You could do the fall semester with one team and then transfer and be eligible for a different team who is in a playoff/bowl game in the winter term.
The tweet mentions a transfer window. I wonder if that would limit transfers to 1/school year.
Double your options by transferring at the end of each semester. Get to see the country, enjoy great weather, cycle through different coed pools, play a little ball, tap into hot NIL cooperatives, and finish at a premier academic institution for the diploma.
They might as well make a rule that athletes can be enrolled part time and be done with it.
They could be hired employees of the university. Attending class would be optional. Do Bama/OSU/Clemson fans really care whether their players go to school? Hell, there's a non-zero number of our fanbase that might not care if they're honest.
Maybe he was ahead of his time....
He wasn't wrong then. He isn't wrong now.
Not wrong? His punctuation was ATROCIOUS, to say nothing of his phrasing.
I don’t like the idea of unlimited transfers but I also don’t care if football players ever have to go to class.
This is EXACTLY where the bus is going.
Which is, to say, off a cliff.
Don’t get me wrong, I want players to get to have autonomy in their own lives. However, it just seems as though limitless transfers would transform the collegiate landscape in such a way that academia would be an afterthought. Sports are meant to be an addition to scholastics, not a substitute.
I love how earnest you're being about this.
Don’t get me wrong, I want players to get to have autonomy in their own lives.
There's nothing that prevents players from transferring as many times, and as frequently, as they want. The rules only restrict their eligibility to play for new teams, which I think is perfectly reasonable.
College athletes are on their way to having essentially more autonomy than professional athletes under contract have. This is gonna be a shit show
HARBAUGH is going to need to update his Transformation, not Transactional mantra ASAP. No one cares about academia. Stop living in the past.
That is the Michigan Difference is that for many things we live in the past, and BTW, let me tell you how many NC we won in the early 1900s!!!
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