Transfer portal getting nuts

[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

 

[Fan1978]

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

Why? Free market will take care of itself

 

[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.