I hope you're right, but how long have we been working on playoffs. There are so many cats in this that it's going to be difficult to herd then into one cage everyone agrees on.
I totally agree. How is a coach going to get a player to listen to him when the player is making double what the coach is? The way things are going I could see players banding together and demanding a college hire a certain coach if they want them to sign with their school. It's crazy now and it's just getting started. The NCAA exists in name only!
Can't believe I am saying this but it was better when the NCAA were being assholes. I remember Dale Brown got a call from one of his players who's car broke down in the middle of the night. Dale jumped in his car and helped him out. By doing so he committed a violation. With that said it was better back then compared to what's fixin to happen.
I hope you are right, but I don't know why we should think controls are very near. Who is going to implement them; more importantly who is going to enforce them. It's much easier to establish rules and protocols up front than it is after something has started and everyone has been making it up as they go along. Who can tell the aggies to put their 30mil back in their wallet? What is needed is a strong entity with the ability to dictate how it's going to be. Ideally that would be the NCAA - and like @Kikicaca I can't believe I'm saying that. But they are just an empty suit at this point. As for as legislative bodies do you think the Texas legislature run by Horn/Aggie Republicans can get a set of rules aligned with the California legislature run by Democrats. And no way is Congress isn't going to touch this passionate issue in an election year. And if they do they'll fuck it up worse. So really what we're talking about is a need for the school at a conference level leadership getting together and agreeing on a process. But that's the same group of leaders that can't agree on a playoff formula. And the NIL/TPortal issue is going to be much more difficult because this isn't about splitting up a pie that's already defined. Its about telling wealthy dedicated fanatics that they have to stop doing things they're already doing to win the pie. These wealthy dedicated fanatics have more power over the schools, than the schools have over them. The fanatics would love nothing more than to telling a toothless NCAA and everybody else to go fuck yourself we're buying a title. I really really hope you are right and I'm wrong. But I'm pessimistic.
A&M, and Texas, aren't wrong here. And kluke tells you why they aren't wrong. All schools in Texas can follow this model of recruiting with the NIL because that's how the state wrote their laws regarding NIL. At this point state laws would have to be amended to all read the same. As @tigerpub concludes "it's all Saban's fault" he was at the forefront of cautioning that the NIL would not be equal for all schools and programs. Like several other subjects he cautioned "...the question is because it's not going to be equal, and everything that we've done in college athletics in the past has always been equal," Saban said. "Everybody's had equal scholarship, equal opportunity. Now that's probably not going to be the case.
This is the penultimate case of over-restriction leading to excess once the restriction is lifted. Instead of getting with the times and gradually decreasing regulation on NIL, it took a court case to end the restriction, which resulted in a complete lack of preparation for this environment. It’s Anarchy and it will take years to fix. The plus side is TAMU is playing with fire. Very high risk, high reward move just like O signing tons of high talent out of state recruits that later left.
I'm not to the point of saying anything good about the NCAA yet, but the way things are going I may have to bite my tongue and actually support the NCAA one day. But I'm not there yet!
