Secrets of the college football transfer portal: ‘There’s definitely tampering going on’ (The Athletic)

[Exit 4]

Do you think it should be on the student to reach out to explore their market value or is it ok for an outside source to reach out to them to open their eyes to their market value?

I don’t think the distinction matters- both are happening

 

[TheDrifter75]

Yes, both are happening. You had made the statement that kids should be allowed to explore their market value. My question was, in your opinion, do you think that should only be on the student or should sources outside their current schools interest make first contact to explore their market value?

 

[Kolumbo]

The thing about the above scenario is that the 200k is not to lure the athlete to the P5, it would have happened most likely without the money. The 200k is just to keep another P5 out of the picture. Good kids were already favoring the big time P5 schools as it is and there are only a certain amount of spots, so its not like this is a major talent drain on the G5, they weren't exactly getting the same talent already.

It does create an opportunity for lower tiered schools to poach from bigger programs though, which was a much harder sell before. Alabama and Georgia and all the other big time schools were getting the good players before, its not like they can suck up more of them, there is no room, but now this makes a smaller school with deep pocket donors a player in the game, which may end up expanding the football talent spectrum across more teams and potentially making it more difficult for one or two top teams to stack all of the talent.

This is a great point. I wonder who makes out better. Lousy P5 programs who can afford to buy players from better programs (it always seemed to me the Kansases had to try very hard to be bad at football) or G5 programs who can offer playing time.
Whatever the situation, the timing is ripe for UCONN with Mora and his experience to take full advantage of transfers. Do it.

 

[Patman]

Attempts for central regulation on NIL is a dangerous political game for the NCAA....Washington is not going to like it....And moreover the NCAA cannot get its member Universities to agree on much.

agreed, every attempt would have been a loser, and end up back where we are right now.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[billybud]

The Transfer Portal is like a card game...maybe Canasta.

You discard a card to be able to pick another from the deck...and someone else may take your discard.

Both of you are attempting to build a winning hand.

Alabama has been discarding for years...some call it "processing"....talking to players about their odds of playing, encouraging or even arranging a transfer out, having a medical disqual which maintains a guy's scholarship while not counting it against cap.

The Portal just cleans this up some....