Transfer portal getting nuts

[MuchoDogYears]

Ok then they won’t be enrolled students. They’ll be university employees. However it’s done, it won’t involve taking classes.

And for those forward-looking types…in a few years when the transition is made to athletes being University employees instead of enrolled students there’ll no longer be a limit on how many years an employee can play on a university team.

The only league that’ll be left standing, unscathed, at the end of the college sport apocalypse will be the Ivy League. The conference whom started the whole notion of college sports in the first place.

 

[Waquoit]

A mid major last won a title in 2003

Before that was 1962

UNLV 90?

 

[upstater]

Ok then they won’t be enrolled students. They’ll be university employees. However it’s done, it won’t involve taking classes.

I mean, why not just make them team employees.

 

[LIuconn]

Oakland went 1-1 in the tournament. Not a run.
My point is a mid major program can't cultivate a team over the course of a couple years anymore. Their top players will get poached

 

[AdamaNation]

This isn't sustainable long term.

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I see it like kids going to community college to get a scholarship and credits to a bigger school. Pharmaceutical students and engineers do it but athletes can’t???

 

[MuchoDogYears]

Read this morning of a portal signing at Arkansas for 1.2M.

The player had put has name into the NBA draft but then decided to stay in college because the 1.2M he’s getting is double the NBA minimum.

Tipping point?

 

[Palatine]

Slightly off point but it applies.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

How about colleges offering students an athletic scholarship. That's right, a free ride to a college education - and you get to play on the school's team. What a novel concept.

 

[bendm]

Read this morning of a portal signing at Arkansas for 1.2M.

The player had put has name into the NBA draft but then decided to stay in college because the 1.2M he’s getting is double the NBA minimum.

Tipping point?

Must be johnnell Davis

 

[Huskyforlife]

Read this morning of a portal signing at Arkansas for 1.2M.

The player had put has name into the NBA draft but then decided to stay in college because the 1.2M he’s getting is double the NBA minimum.

Tipping point?

I think this is amazing for non NBA prospects. If you’re not worth 1.2 mil to the NBA, why shouldn’t someone in college be able to pay you it?

 

[FearThePups]

I think this is amazing for non NBA prospects. If you’re not worth 1.2 mil to the NBA, why shouldn’t someone in college be able to pay you it?

I don’t have a problem with college kids getting paid but there has to be a salary cap for each Division 1 program. Each school can elect to pay one guy it all and give the others nothing or divvy it up between the 13 man roster. If we want some sort of equality in the sport, the Uber rich schools shouldn’t hold all the cards. Even with a set salary cap compromise, many schools will not be able to compete for the best players, so there’s that.

 

[speckle]

I don’t have a problem with college kids getting paid but there has to be a salary cap for each Division 1 program. Each school can elect to pay one guy it all and give the others nothing or divvy it up between the 13 man roster. If we want some sort of equality in the sport, the Uber rich schools shouldn’t hold all the cards. Even with a set salary cap compromise, many schools will not be able to compete for the best players, so there’s that.

Every athlete already has an implicit earnings cap in their 4 years of eligibility. Schools, coaches, conferences, etc do not. Athletes literally just got a seat at the table that they themselves built. We shouldn't be looking for ways to reduce their compensation, but rather generate new revenue, such as direct fan support of athletes outside the perimeters of NIL.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

And for the record - I'm fine with it. Kids should get paid.

Yes. They should receive tuition, room and board. Worth over $200 plus k. Not a bad pay day.

 

[McLovin]

I think booster funded NIL super collectives that are overpaying for portal recruits will not be sustainable when these donors begin to realize they are getting a pretty poor ROI. Once the money stops flowing as freely, I think the transfer portal will cool off.

 

[AdamaNation]

A lot of these guys aren't going to get scholarship offers again. They're going to feel pretty silly.

No. But there is clearly a minor league and major league which stinks. When will UNC start financing NC A&T it Elon it High Point to prep players for the big show?

 

[TouchdownHusky]

And for the record - I'm fine with it. Kids should get paid.

Yes. They should receive tuition, room and board. Worth over $200 plus k. Not a bad pay day

 

[temery]

You can't have a degree program though without a field, and there is no field in sports currently, and none will pop up overnight. You'll actually need some body of work, whether in books, exercise, training, something, anything, that would constitute a field. And the person offering these classes would have to have a degree in an adjacent field, or none of it happens at all. In other words, they can't give out degrees if there isn't a person with a degree to give them out. So, someone in an adjacent field would have to create an interdisciplinary program. I can only think of the literature of sports, or something to do with exercise science, the history of sports, sports and sociology, sports administration, these kind of things.

When it comes to imagining playing a sport, though, I'm stumped in trying to find an adjacent field. What would it be? Maybe something like Dance & Sport? But dance requires all sorts of study which just recreates the same problem I'm mentioning above.

That's Springfield College's niche.

 

[UCONNFAN179]

I don’t have a problem with college kids getting paid but there has to be a salary cap for each Division 1 program. Each school can elect to pay one guy it all and give the others nothing or divvy it up between the 13 man roster. If we want some sort of equality in the sport, the Uber rich schools shouldn’t hold all the cards. Even with a set salary cap compromise, many schools will not be able to compete for the best players, so there’s that.

Just make a rule that a program can take no more than 2 transfers per year...something like that

 

[upstater]

Why? Free market will take care of itself

Clearly isn't a free market

 

[Hey Adrien!]

 

[StllH8L8ner]

 

[HooperScooper]

Nothing that we all don't realize, but an article from Peach Jam with interviews with coaches about how recruiting high school kids is not what it used to be. Most coaches are filling their rosters with transfers.

"None of us are really recruiting transfers," the coach said. "We're buying transfers."

Which has made this year's Peach Jam a little unusual in the sense that literally every day of the event in past years you would read reports about this player getting a Kentucky offer or that player getting a UCLA offer. It was offers on top of offers on top of offers. But now there's way less of that. Because Peach Jam is no longer the place most high-major coaches come to build future teams as much as it's the place they come to see a bunch of 17 year-olds who probably can't help them now but just might in three or four years after a couple of productive seasons at the collegiate level leads to them entering the transfer portal.

NIL and relaxed transfer rules have changed recruiting at 'the most stress-free Peach Jam in history'

There isn't as much pressure on coaches to recruit players in high school and that's changed the intensity of Peach Jam

www.cbssports.com

 

[cohenzone]

This is how the power conferences push out the mid-majors without publicly stating such … athletic/recruiting budgets are already tight at many schools, now they’re being used to farm for the big boys.

That might be exactly what we are seeing with some of the hs commits to our football program.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Clearly isn't a free market

Or maybe it's the freest of markets.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Kansas makes a late offseason add:



Coit is a 5'11 volume scoring combo guard from NIU. Averaged nearly 21 ppg w/ a 50 2P%, 33.7 3P% (nearly 10 3PAs per game!) and a 88.5 FT%. 3 assists per game too.

Kansas now deep with guards with DaJuan Harris returning for his fifth year at point and the transfer additions of Rylan Griffin (Alabama), Shakeel Moore (Miss. State), Zeke Mayo (South Dakota St.) and now Coit.

 

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Kansas makes a late offseason add:



Coit is a 5'11 volume scoring combo guard from NIU. Averaged nearly 21 ppg w/ a 50 2P%, 33.7 3P% (nearly 10 3PAs per game!) and a 88.5 FT%. 3 assists per game too.

Kansas now deep with guards with DaJuan Harris returning for his fifth year at point and the transfer additions of Rylan Griffin (Alabama), Shakeel Moore (Miss. State), Zeke Mayo (South Dakota St.) and now Coit.

Kansas putting together quite the AAU squad.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Kansas makes a late offseason add:



Coit is a 5'11 volume scoring combo guard from NIU. Averaged nearly 21 ppg w/ a 50 2P%, 33.7 3P% (nearly 10 3PAs per game!) and a 88.5 FT%. 3 assists per game too.

Kansas now deep with guards with DaJuan Harris returning for his fifth year at point and the transfer additions of Rylan Griffin (Alabama), Shakeel Moore (Miss. State), Zeke Mayo (South Dakota St.) and now Coit.

It seems like us and Kansas are gonna be the two totem programs at the top of the sport for a while. Haven't seen something like that since Uconn-Tenn women's rivalry.

 

[uconnfan68]

Or maybe it's the freest of markets.

Or a monopoly.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Or a monopoly.

Defintion of a monopoly: "A monopoly is a market structure that consists of a single seller or producer and no close substitutes."

 

[bendm]

Kansas makes a late offseason add:



Coit is a 5'11 volume scoring combo guard from NIU. Averaged nearly 21 ppg w/ a 50 2P%, 33.7 3P% (nearly 10 3PAs per game!) and a 88.5 FT%. 3 assists per game too.

Kansas now deep with guards with DaJuan Harris returning for his fifth year at point and the transfer additions of Rylan Griffin (Alabama), Shakeel Moore (Miss. State), Zeke Mayo (South Dakota St.) and now Coit.

KU and Bama are preseason 1a and 1b