Good attempt to control this merry go round that has become the transfer portal. The big problem is that the NCAA no longer has any teeth with which to bite the offenders with. All anyone will have to do is sue them and the courts will allow it. Short of an exception granted by Congress, which currently seems unlikely, the NCAA probably can't prohibit this kind of stuff anymore.

“The Council agreed that athletics reasons (lack of playing time, position presence) and academic preferences should not warrant waiver relief.”

What does “academic preference” mean.

I realize the two aren't mutually exclusive, but IMO establishing some guidelines (and enforcement) around NIL should be a much higher priority than restricting transfers.

NCAA is useless.

NIL and the portal damage to college football is just beginning. These measures should have been implemented with far more planning, everybody just jumped in the deep end.

WXAPP wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:32 am

NCAA is useless.

The NCAA is the kind of parents who says “don’t make me count to 3,” but never gets past 2 and a half.

Michigan and Harbaugh can easily tell them to get bent over the recent infections. What could they possibly do? Ohio State would scoff at what got Tressel fired all those years ago if it happened today.

fjblair wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:41 am

These measures should have been implemented with far more planning, everybody just jumped in the deep end.

Handled a lot like something else that comes to mind.

The NCAA never had any teeth. Everyone just agreed that they had power to legislate things. Now that everyone has decided they don't, there's nothing the NCAA can. Especially when it comes to football, because the NCAA isn't even involved in the playoff. That's why it's called "The College Football Playoff" and not "The NCAA College Football Championship."

Wild wild west..... free for all ....total chaos!

fjblair wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:41 am

NIL and the portal damage to college football is just beginning. These measures should have been implemented with far more planning, everybody just jumped in the deep end.

"College football" is essentially dead. This is a semi-pro type sport of its own. The colleges are just the "corporation" who oversees and benefits from the CFB product. Players aren't "student athletes", they are athletes that are students. Athletic Scjolarships need to go away, kids can get paid through NIL/school in some form and then they should pay their tuition like everyone else. Apply for academic scholarships if needed.

So many of us predicted this over the years leading to the NIL. It is what it is but let's not try to maintain the idea of "student athletes" in football. That ship has sailed

One guardrail needed is transfer anywhere, except within conference. They can pick from hundreds of schools, but within conference is ridiculous. They have insider knowledge of the program, the coaches, the playbook. Undermines competition. Rivalries.

The good G5's will basically be like a Triple A baseball team feeding P5's as needed.

fjblair wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:41 am

NIL and the portal damage to college football is just beginning. These measures should have been implemented with far more planning, everybody just jumped in the deep end.

A great reason to have a collective bargaining agreement between athletes and the NCAA schools where some deliberation and back and forth could have happened to come to an agreement that have given some justice to the students and set some limits on NIL and transfer options.

The introduction of the Portal is like a lot of "new" stuff/laws/regulations that are introduced, it may sound like a good idea at first but it is not always easy to see how it will be used and abused. The Portal was trying to solve another problem, lack of fairness to players but it created a monster.

So the spirit of the portal is not necessarily bad. A player decides to move on from their current school and they need a mechanism to connect to possible suiters. What would be the logical guidelines/controls that should be put into place to make it work properly and not be the wild wild west? I would like to hear from some of you that have given it some serious thought. For example, when can a student enter, what does that mean from a scholarship perspective, etc. etc.

I don't think the portal by itself is much of an issue. The perceived problems have more to do with its coupling with NIL. Since the NCAA was ordered by the Supreme Court to allow NIL, its initiation is a trial by fire.