As expanded College Football Playoff arrives, the sport's chaotic realities are on full display: 'It is absolute bedlam' (Yahoo)

[Patman]

So college sports is basically over. No collective group is ever going to allow for the limitations on eligibility.

 

[uconnfan68]

And his point? They’re just minor leagues for the NFL. Plenty of older guys in baseball minor leagues.

 

[huskymedic]

Coaches agree college football’s calendar is broken. How to fix it? They offered a few solutions

College football coaches came up with five solutions to fix the sport's "broken" calendar.

www.nytimes.com

Hall pass <<

-> “We always want a villain in a story, but at this moment, I don’t know if the villain here is the NCAA,” said that personnel director, who has been granted anonymity because he was not cleared by his school to comment. “A lot of people want to think there is an easy fix to this but there actually is no easy solution.” <-

-> After talking to the personnel directors, The Athletic decided to survey 31 FBS coaches, including 16 head coaches, for not only their assessment of the situation but what solutions they had in the wake of the Pribula news. They spoke anonymously as they were not granted permission to go on the record by their programs:

Solution 1: Move the calendar up​

Solution 2: Examine the unlimited transfer rule​

Solution 3: Shorten the transfer window …​

Solution 4: … Or nix the winter window altogether​

Solution 5: Do what the NFL does (bye-bye, spring ball) <-​

More in link ^

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[ScottVib]

Solution 5 in combination with making a single portal season during the spring semester is the solution.

 

[giddyup]

Requires Congress to pass laws that reestablish amateurism and a level competitive playing field. This garbage has to stop. It’s ruining the college sports.

 

[SubbaBub]

I really don't understand why the portal can't just be pushed back? I understand it coincides with the end of fall semester, but most schools don't start up again until after MLK day. Is the CFP playoff still going to be going on then? Even if it was, by paying players we've already admitted they're not regular students aymore. Why can't athletes just have the portal dates that coincide best? Who cares if a kid misses the first couple weeks of school

Classes.start mid Jan, there is only so much NIL money and roster space to go around. .moving the portal doesn't solve the problem than 95% of the portal entries will have a month's head start on finding a new home. If you are a QB transferring to start, the windows is even narrower. You need to find a team with an opening that plays the right system for your game and is going to pay enough and presumably at a school you'd like to attend because most are going to sniff the NFL, that's why they aren't going to wait their turn only to be recruited over by their current team hitting the portal.

There is really no way to fix this without transfers losing a year of eligibility.

 

[UCFBfan]

So wait, the NCAA is already a Minor League for the NFL. JUCO will now be the minors for NCAA? So let's see, JUCO is Double A, NCAA is Triple A, and the NFL is The Show. Nailed it!

 

[huskymedic]

Likely just a matter of time but at this point in time the ruling only applies to Pavia…

That time has come > open the floodgates (gonna be interesting to see how it impacts other sports i.e baseball):

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Patman]

5 today... 6 tomorrow. It's all a clown show

 

[How Sway?!]

Just make an age limit of 24 and it solves your problems.