I just don't know how it can be controlled.
In a free market high school kids could choose to go directly to a professional league or decide to go to college.
I'm with ya on being divided. What happens when a players shirks their commitment to team activities or worse, classroom and studies to go do an endorsement? Think it won't happen? Watch and see. I might just go back to paying attention to pro football. I do not like this trend in college football.
This is where I'm at too and is likely why the NCAA rules are as strict as they are. The existing rules facilitate controllership. The NCAA still has it's problems with controllership but at least the rules are designed to try to make it easier. With lawsuits chipping away at the NCAA they have to make some concessions and I fear those concessions will open the floodgates to all sorts of fraudulent behavior by many involved parties... agents, players, coaches, ADs, schools, recruiters, bag men, etc. On paper I completely agree that disallowing a player from monetizing their personal likeness doesn't make one lick of sense but in reality I have no idea how that can be permitted but the other more nefarious things can still be controlled. Something has to give and thanks to the courts the NCAA has to relent and I don't like where that may lead.
What happens now when a (non graduate) player enters the transfer portal? Don't you think that's a setback to his academics?
You don't think their decision to restrict eligibility was coordinated with the NCAA?
That player will see the pine. If he gets PO’d and hits the portal, you wish him luck and the next guy moves up.
Think about how difficult it is for regular college students to stay on track academically. It's more difficult when you add the rigors of D1 athletics. Now think about transferring after 2-3 years. Some credits might not transfer, the kid has to adjust to a new academic situation while also adjusting to a new coaching situation with different playbooks. Some will handle it but it's gotta be a setback for most.
With the lead person in this from Ohio State how can any of this be trusted to be administered fairly and justly. It will make Cardell Jones’ infamous words “I didn’t come here to go to school, I come here to play football” seem like a light shining into darkness. The NCAA is totally impotent to control the cheating and illegal activity this will generate.
Understand. I just can't see this going well. Some schools will try to maintain compliance but others across the NCAA, whom shall go unnamed, will go all out to exploit this and those attempting to keep it under control will fall behind. No program including PSU is pristine but I believe they have always done an outstanding job. This is going to be hard to keep under control.
Well said. This is bad but it couldn’t be stopped. Now it becomes: Can it be controlled? Surely the marketable players will have to have an agent. Players were barred from having an agent. Will that agent now be able to help them with loans based on their projected income streams? They couldn’t do it based on getting drafted but now there’s NIL income streams.
