I'm with you 100%!!!
They’re not employees Wink wink
Thank you
Maybe the system needs to be reversed. All players are placed in the portal when they sign and then we have a withdrawal deadline, renewed annually. Somewhat kidding. There are ways to fix this and sort of return to the idea that college football is still amateur and schools have actual programs instead of just handing out uniforms with the school name on it to whomever shows up from one year to the next. Get rid of the one free transfer except when the coach who recruited a player is gone for whatever reason.
Us Uconn diehards will always be there, but I think the myth that fickle CT fans will show out for Uconn FB games vs just any opponent, for a W, doesn't carry water. Most Uconn fans are CT sports fans in general, not Uconn Alum and a "major part" of those in attendance, At least in what I've seen in the 30 years plus as a season tix holder/ donor/ attending tailgates and hosting lots of friends. Not to mention the Uconn students no shows after the NC St and Duke games. ( Charlton it's the offense !)
Yeah, and that is weak. Just come out and say he did not like the no conference schedule and leave it at that.
Transfers are highly regulated in the pros, so the idea that the NCAA cannot do the same is false.
The pro game has an antitrust exception, the NCAA doesn't. The pro game has contract and revenue share, the NCAA doesn't.
The contract and revenue share is coming, like it or not. A bill was just introduced today to allow athlete unionization. And the pro exemption is anti-trust related.
Not necessarily. NFL athletes are unionized. Unions can bargain away all sorts of rights, including the right to be protected by antitrust laws, on behalf of their members.
He basically reiterated what Mora said. The Big12 snub was a nutkick.
There is hope for world peace. The BY, might be a stretch.
It hurt more this time just because UConn was almost guaranteed to get in until the Big 10 came and took Washington and Oregon leaving Arizona, ASU and Utah prime for picking by the Big 12.
Technically they cannot but coaches can make it very difficult for you to keep it. For example, team meetings are mandatory and if you are 1 minute late a coach can close the door and claim you missed the meeting. They then cite you for violating team rules. Multiple violations no matter how minor are then used as justification for removal from the team. Players know when they are being pushed out even without it being said. If they survive all of that, at their end of the year meeting they are told, “no matter what you ever do, you will never play here so maybe you should hop in the portal and we will help you find another spot”. The coaches rarely help but the kid is better off leaving rather than risking being kicked off the team with a “violation of team rules” stigma. If the team kicks the kid off of the team for poor performance they have to honor the academic portion of the scholarship and they do not want to spend money on a kid not playing football.
Baker is pushing and feels like Congress will grant the NCAA an exemption as well. Don't have the link to the Yahoo article but I just read it last night. He thinks it will end all these lawsuits. Aka, allows them to block out whoever they want
It is true you cannot "cancel" or "pull" a scholarship during the year, but most scholarships renew on a yearly basis (very rare for more than that). They are one year contracts. The Coach simply has to not renew the scholarship for poor performance. There is no song and dance involved in that. The students only appeal option is to convince the University to give them a scholarship because of the circumstances, but the athletic department is not involved in that and the scholarship would not be for playing on the team anymore.
