Bama to Iowa back to Bama. I think he initially committed to Iowa and then decomitted to then commit to Bama to begin with. Again, I laugh at anyone who thinks Bama hasn't been buying players at unprecedented levels with the arrival of Saban. They aren't going to let Deboer go in to his tenure with a talent disadvantage that's for sure.
I still believe , if they fix this transfer chaos then NIL wouldn't be an issue. Kids could always get money from a school or booster but they likely were not going to another team the following offseason.... every off season like they are now or transfer twice in the same off season like kadyn proctor smh.
I'm pessimistic about how NIL will be applied overall. I think guys were getting money under the table before. NiL wil make it even easier for the usual suspects to "sweeten" legitimate deals the way they always have. With that said, fixing the portal issue will take away some leverage the players have and at least even the playing field a little bit. As you said, the combination of the two as they stand is the biggest problem.
That Iowa coach clip is hilarious. "Now we don't have to change our playbook." A Bama transfer is going to spill the beans on the Iowa offensive playbook? But he's not so now Iowa fans can get excited?? That's gold Jerry, Gold!
I think the transfer issue is done at this point. They started crawfishing last year when they were hit with the temporary injunction. At that point, they were still threatening to punish teams and players that broke the rules during the TRO, if the NCAA later won the lawsuit. Someone posted on the basketball board this week that they’ve now come out and said there’s no restrictions on transfers for the 24-25 season other than having to move during the transfer window. To me this shows that they’re giving up even though they haven’t actually lost the lawsuit yet. I don’t see how they’re going to let them do whatever they want for two years, then come back and reinstate the previous restrictions, which were already not very restrictive.
AI is going to be the piece that finally finishes us off. We were already down the road of misinformation with social media but AI is next level
I'm not even making this political. Sports AI has started a bunch of online arguments already. I think they are often funny but I have learned to vet anything and everything I come across online whether I agree with a sentiment or not. The kirk ferentz presser was funny to me but I imagine many people reflexively react to those things without checking to see if they're real because....well it looks damn real.