NCAA’s transfer portal has become big, fat joke

Chump change to Texans

 

Today Dec 5th maybe the biggest day in college football,players enter into transfer portal. Hard for me to believe college football has come to this.

 

Its awful….

 

Did you hear Deion tell the Colorado players to pack and go lol. Not sure how to take it really, but at least they know where they stand.

 

Who knows what is truth anymore..but last week a guest on Cowherd said a HS QB was asking 10 million in NIL to commit. Who knows if that's a year or 4 or???. But if a HS kid is asking that what can an established college guy command? Not for or against..just seeing a market development that will be interesting to watch

 

I did not here this, I am not a Dion fan, but if you look at Colorado's record for the last
10 years there really not setting the world on fire. So he is correct in weeding out the players that are taking up space

 

At around $6M a year, Deion had better make a miraculous turnaround. It could happen, but I'll believe it when I see it.

 

I read once where the highest paid public employee in each state is a sports coach

 

Reminds me of Pop Warner football and high school coaches with kids on teams. I think when Rivers left the Colts, he took a football head coach at a high school school where he son will be eventually going.

 

You probably heard right. I am not sure but here in Pa James Franklin and Pat Narduzzi have pretty
high salaries for state employee's.

 

I just did a search and it must have been ESPN where I saw it. It's a year old and James Franklin was the highest paid in PA. Football and basketball coaches dominated per article.

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/s...d-college-football-college-basketball-coaches

 

I believe this is an old estimate for Franklin, PSU extended him I believe last summer going to about 8 million/yr.

 

For a seasonal job...plus the perks... from 2019

 

There's pros/cons to the transfer portal. I'm critical of Pat Narduzzi a lot but the portal has been his ace to restock the Panthers. It's getting to the point that recruiting the portal game is more important than recruiting HS SRs for some programs. As with anything that's new, the portal and NIL will correct itself in time. I see people's arguments against both, and can find common ground. But at the same time, I see positives in the portal. It gives some kids a chance to come home if they're homesick; it gives others a chance to get playing time; and it gives some a fresh start. Yes it's chaotic today, but will it be chaotic 10/15 years from now? Maybe it will; maybe it wBoth,

NIL is something that should've been a thing 40 years ago.

 

I agree on NIL for college. It is way past due.

I just saw that the TSSAA here in Tennessee approved NIL for high school athletes by a vote of 12-0. The kids can't represent a school and can't be in uniform. There are now about 20 states that allow high school kids to get paid.

Not sure how I feel about NIL for HS yet.

 

Pa did this yesterday, a local kid with a bright future just signed with a Paving co. from Wexford. I only point this out
because quite a few Steelers live in the Wexford area.

 

I'll be honest, I struggle with it because high school kids should be there to learn first and foremost and with NIL, they'll be pimped out to the highest bidder and living with extended family members like "aunts" and "uncles" in order to be zoned for specific schools. I'm not too naive to think is doesn't happen today but I think it's hard enough for HS administrators today as it is. Now this is just another pile of sh!t that they are going to have to deal with.

 

Personally. I'd be more than happy if our development of pro talent evolved into a system similar to what they do in Europe. HS and CFB have been corrupt for some time. I don't think school boards should override a AD for a HC, for example.