"College Football Is On EBay" is NIL a bad thing?

[PCLoadLetter]

IIRC, Burrow graduated early from Ohio State and was at LSU as a grad student. Or he already had a degree and was taking sone token elective classes. He was there just for football, sure, but it wasn't the worst example of it.

I seem to remember a USC quarterback doing the same thing, but can't recall which one. Might have been Matt Leinart or Mark Sanchez.

I believe Leinart was essentially one credit away from graduating so his last year he just took ballroom dancing with his girlfriend.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I'm fully cognizant that there are legitimate arguments for the new frontier. I know student-athletes got the raw end of the deal for eternity.

And I still can't help thinking that when college programs don't maintain a multi-year identity, when there are new hired hands showing up every season -- and that's the way this appears to be headed -- the big loser is the fan.

Alums will always love the laundry. Would it be nice to have guys stay three or four years and chase school records and become connected with the school's history and lineage? Of course. Are the alums gonna care if a bunch of Joe Mercenaries lead the team to the promised land, however that's defined at whatever level the alma mater plays at? Absolutely not.

 

[outofplace]

IIRC, Burrow graduated early from Ohio State and was at LSU as a grad student. Or he already had a degree and was taking sone token elective classes. He was there just for football, sure, but it wasn't the worst example of it.

I seem to remember a USC quarterback doing the same thing, but can't recall which one. Might have been Matt Leinart or Mark Sanchez.

I don't think Burrow graduated from Ohio State early, but I think he was a grad student for the second of his two seasons at LSU.

 

[micropolitan guy]

A grip needs to be gotten on the transfers. If it's a move up, say from DII to FCS or FCS to FBS or even small FBS to Power 5, OK. Lateral moves, you get one. After that, you sit a year.
I broadcast a game this year pretty far down the pecking order where opposing team's starting QB was starting for his fourth school in four years.
This is true:
Midweek game prep looking at the two-deep.
Me: "Why does their starting QB's name sound familiar?"
Partner: "He started for us two years ago."

That is the rule now. You get a one-time, no-sit transfer. After that, you sit a year unless you get a waiver, or have graduated, unless you're going down a division.

 

[Batman]

I don't think Burrow graduated from Ohio State early, but I think he was a grad student for the second of his two seasons at LSU.

That sounds right. I knew there was a well documented (and valid) reason why he was only nominally a student during his Heisman run.

 

[Cosmo]

I mean, shirt, during the second semester of my senior year I barely went to class, save for the one class that was important to my major. Not out of laziness, but I was told basically that for getting a newspaper job, GPA was meaningless and everything was about building a clips portfolio and demonstrating that I could do the job right away was the most important thing. I still got my degree, but there was no difference for me between a 2.7 and 3.7, so I chose building real-world experience over chasing grades. This isn't exclusive to athletes.

 

[poindexter]

Maybe - just maybe, trying to shoehorn academics and going to classes into a world of near-world class athletics (world class in many non-football and basketball sports) is just a stupid idea.

 

[BTExpress]

Nobody ever hand-wrings about coaches.

Nobody. Ever.

 

[TigerVols]

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

NIL is horrible.

Best Christmas Video: Hoosier Anthony Leal Uses His NIL Money to Pay Off Sister's School Loans

 

[poindexter]

NIL is horrible.

Best Christmas Video: Hoosier Anthony Leal Uses His NIL Money to Pay Off Sister's School Loans

Yes, this really is a bad thing for college sports.
That money could have paid off a P5 conference head coach's buyout!

 

[poindexter]

I am not sure there is a clearer line of demarcation for "Are you a shirt head?" than answering affirmatively to the question "Is NIL bad?"