If you could get rid of transfer portal or NIL, which would you pick?

Under its current setup, I would get rid of the transfer portal because allowing players to transfer and play immediately means the big boys will continue to pluck the best players from other teams, which creates a huge imbalance. It also ruins opportunities for HS players to go to bigger schools, because their spot is being given to a transfer. On the flip side, smaller teams are now able to land highly ranked players they otherwise would have never had the chance to do, but most of these players have yet to prove they can play at the college level and have very little college game experience.

In regards to NIL, players have been getting paid for years and will always get paid one way or another. Although I never expected NIL to get so out of control, I would still rather see Alabama or Georgia throw a lot money in landing an unproven HS player versus cherry picking other teams and landing proven players that will only help their teams even further.

How do you feel?

 

Neither.
I like both.
I woke up in America this morning. I fundamentally believe in both FREEDOM and the right for anyone to earn a living off of their talents.
NCAA athletics - up until recently - allowed neither. It locked athletes into a single choice for 4 years (a decision made before most of these kids could vote or get drafted) and exposed them to injuries that could immediately end their athletic careers and any potential for them to earn any money at all from their talents without allowing them to earn a single dime for themselves. At the same time the "fruits of their labor" brought millions upon millions of dollars for the school they were basically enslaved to.

 

Each one individually change the power balance in college football. NIL for instance, Ain't no way A&M gets a #1 recruiting class without the money to spend. University of Texas will rise up from the mire of mediocrity with their buying power. NIL isn't about schools supporting student athletes like it should be. It is about boosters buying commitments so they can have bragging rights in the boardroom on Monday morning.

Transfer portal is worse in my opinion. Yeah we root for a school and the jersey but I like knowing that guy is going to be here for at least 3 years. I get to see him develop. the emotional attachment is weakened.

 

You make some good points and I can't say I totally disagree. I think the thing that bothers me the most about NIL, transfer portal and these enormous coaching contracts being given out is that college football, realistically speaking, has nothing to do with college anymore and that's a shame. At this point, college football is all about winning and making lots of money and academics and school pride are a thing of the past. The bible states that money is the root of all evil and nowhere is that more true than in college football today!

 

Setting aside the price of contracts and ticket prices, it's been like that for decades already. Frankly, until someone gives me evidence that modern era NCAA DIV I football was some idyllic, rah-rah, win it for the Gipper thing at some point in the past and that it was not a business back in the day then I call bullshit. You don't think Bear Bryant didn't buy players and break recruiting rules?

Since 2000, overall graduation rates for FBS football players have increased from a 63% overall graduation rate to an 81% overall graduation rate. So, in terms of academics, that is a significant improvement. There is a gap that needs to be closed between the graduation rates of white football players (90% in 2021) and black football players (77% in 2021). However since 2000, graduation rates for black FBS football players has risen 23% whereas graduation rates for white FBS football players has only risen 14% over that same time period.

Do you really think players in the late 1970's through the advent of NIL really played for school pride, or did they play for that bag of cash they found in the apartment they moved into their freshman year? The great thing about NIL is that it is more "above board" and transparent than it was prior to NIL. (Though I'm sure the bag-O-cash will still be a thing moving forward.)

 

NIL without the transfer rule could be positive. Even though we needed the transfer rule this year I would rather not have it.

 

Transfer portal in its current way.

go back to you transfer you sit a year.