2024 college football offseason thread

NCAA, Power 5 agree to let schools pay players

 

Which does nothing to shield them from antitrust suits from future athletes who will call that de facto salary cap a constraint of trade that has not been collectively bargained.

 

I will be really interested is seeing the unintended consequences of all this.

 

Well, UAB has a collective that can be negotiated with, so it has a running start. Not enough NIL money to matter, but at least a negotiating base exists.

 

Oh, I do.

 

I wonder if we’ll start to see “transfers” like we do in the European soccer leagues. Monmouth has a really good football player. They sell the rights to him to Ohio State for $500k. I suppose the transfer portal means something like this wouldn’t happen. But it’d be a way to reward the smaller D-1 schools when they inevitably get fleeced by the P4.

 

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/co...12-high-revenue-payouts-sank-fy23-1234780252/

The former commissioner of the Pac-12, who presided over its dismantling - received a $500,000 "bonus" for some reason. Sounds like a newspaper CEO.

 

Only thing I see from this is the Two-Ay caved to forestall the inevitable.

 

I think it will be tumultuous but not horrible. Given how awful the previous systems have been I don't see how it could be worse.

I think about the a stumpy offensive guard who was the star player in my high school. He went to a Power Five school and was probably the best offensive lineman on a team that finished in the Top 20 by the end of his redshirt junior year. He then had a problem with the coaching staff and left the team. He was to short for the NFL and had exhausted his eligibility because of the requirement to sit out for a year after a transfer. His scholarship was also pulled. I think I next saw him from a distance delivering FedEx a couple of years later.

In the new system the kid, as a starting guard on a good team, would be able to transfer for his last year and make six figures. I think the new world is a better place.

 

I think this could hurt the transfer portal jumping, if leagues/colleges can sign players to multi-year contracts.