1. Restrict transfers. You must stay for at least two years with your original school, and if you do transfer, you must sit a year. Exceptions can be made for hardship and/or coaching changes. 2. Make verbal and written commitments illegal. Sign or don’t sign. Once you sign, it is iron clad and only can be terminated if both parties agree. Any contact by another school with a signed athlete of another school is illegal and subject to automatic penalties. 3. Pay athletes directly through the NCAA and by grade. Pay is the same at every school. Freshman get paid the lowest and it increases each year. Graduate students would be the highest paid, for example. The amount an athlete gets paid is directly tied to the revenue that sport generates. 4. Detach NIL from schools. NIL should be illegal if it contains any provision (implied or specified) that requires a student to play for a particular school. NIL contracts above a certain threshold must follow an athlete if they transfer. No NIL contract can be discussed or signed prior to enrollment.
There is a lawsuit now that limiting transfers violates federal law. If it makes it to the supreme court the NCAA will lose.
Only real solution will likely be having to make the players employees of the schools. Players get some payment and restricted movement. If the big conferences don't get this solved in the next few years, its over. Apathy will set in for fans, and rarely do you return in any meaningful way once you stop the passion and realize there are better ways to spend our time, money and energy. I didn't miss a Falcons game all my life. NFL started going soft hits, not allowing defense to play, QB can't be touched and I slowly lost interest. Now I watch maybe a couple games a year if nothing else happening that Sunday.
I said something similar in point two, but have them getting paid by the NCAA instead. I think that having them being school employees would lead to more exploitation problems.
NCAA is far more gutless in that respect. Automatic ejection for targeting? Intent doesn't matter? Just helmet meets helmet and you're gone. That's 15yards in the NFL.
You should try RedZone. Eight straight hours of nothing but consequential plays. No commercials. No watching the refs "figure it out". None of that crap. Just football and more football.
I'm not trying to win anything. I'm just facing the facts. The sport has changed and it's not going back. So I'm just enjoying what we have.
I casually watch the No Fun League because it’s a vector for gambling, via sports betting and/or fantasy football. CFB is headed that direction. Yay.
For this one - which of the three boss? Hangin Guillotine or The "Rack"????????? hehehe - easy "The Rack", may he stretch in peace..........
Nice conversation pieces, murph. I like your ideas, but hesitate to think that they are realistic. My $.02 Agree, but it would be hard to go back to a more restrictive policy. Agree, but have no faith in the ncaa to enforce the no contact policy. Why would the ncaa give up its golden egg? I presume this would be from tv revenue? Not sure it would ever buy into such a model. I also think that Title I would prevent this, due to inequities in pay from the ncaa. Agree and like others, I don't understand how UAAs play into NIL. It should be between the endorsers and the athletes.
You've always supported this crap. "Oh, the poor kids". Whatever. Irony is this is actually going to be worse for them in the long run.
But he's right. Nothing you're suggesting has a chance in hell of getting past the courts. Say what you want about the NFL, but they have rules. Concrete rules. This is a shitshow and there's literally no way to get it back in the bottle or under any kind of control.
Anything is possible. We have a lot of dumb rules in place that shouldn’t exist, but they do. Is it likely? Perhaps not, but it’s not impossible. People thought we’d never have as many as 12 teams in a playoff. People never thought college athletes would be paid so much out in the open, but here we are. I’m not saying what I proposed would happen, I’m just saying what I think would work if it was passed.
Reduce the 85 scholarships for FBS down, 85+ rosters are ridiculous, it will also slow much of the jumping around, imho. FCS does just fine with 63. The league has a 55 man roster + a practice squad. Bring FBS down to no more than 70, that’s 3 deep at every single spot + 4 specialist. I would actually advocate for a bit less. The way it is now it’s a bunch of wasted resources and time.
