The Rest of College Football

[THE_WIZARD_]

HE'S ON STRIKE!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!!111111

[Mike]

The NCAA needs to clean this shit up....starting with appointing a Commish for the sport...

Technically, P4 football needs to ditch the NCAA all together and THEN appoint a Commish to clean this shit up.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Correct. The NCAA is trying to be "The Commish" and they are an absolute joke at it. A breakaway would be the way to go. The institutions are fearful though of athletes becoming actual "employees" from a legal standpoint though.

[Mike]

From The Athletic:

Sluka’s name, image and likeness representative, Marcus Cromartie, told ESPN that Sluka was “verbally promised” at least $100,000 by an assistant coach before committing to the school this offseason, but has only received a $3,000 relocation stipend.

Sluka’s father, Bob, told The Athletic that the money was negotiated with two agents on the phone in February.

“We did not ask for anything extra,” Bob Sluka said. “Essentially they refused, (coach) Barry Odom refused to give us the money. We tried everything. We’d take payments. Anything. And they just kept deferring it and deferring it, and to this day, we do not know why.”

I'll tell you why, Mr. Sluka. Nobody in Vegas was interested in ponying up $100,000 for the transfer from Holy Cross. Sounds like the coaches fucked up though if they, if fact, made assertions that he'd receive $100K for his commitment. Fucking amateur hour. Where's Jerry Tarkanian when you need him!

[THE_WIZARD_]

Tark's squads had a higher payroll than the Lakers...

[Mike]

One of the comments on that article: "UNLV couldn't get him into the Differential Equations course he needed for his degree." Haha.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Degree. Heh.

[Da Geezer]

Technically, P4 football needs to ditch the NCAA all together and THEN appoint a Commish to clean this shit up.

Agreed. And, like it or not, part of the fix has to be the transfer portal. This weekend, specifically listen to the history of any player they focus on. In almost every case they have transferred. It is way out of hand.

And how do you stop Texas or Ohio from paying players millions? Salary cap? How could that be enforced?

[lineygoblue]

Technically, P4 football needs to ditch the NCAA all together and THEN appoint a Commish to clean this shit up.

I think this is a great idea. The sooner that the NCAA loses control of P4 football, the better. Jim Harbaugh was right, like him or not.

In the meantime they need to stop unlimited access to the portal. IMO it should be that when you sign a LOI, you are committed to play for that team for at least 2 years. If you decide to sit out, that's on you. You get nothing. No NIL, no nothing as long as you are taking yourself out. Then after 2 seasons, you can portal ONE time for the remainder of your college career. The fifth year senior transfer should remain intact.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Sounds like NFL free agency. Hmmm.

[lineygoblue]

Sounds like NFL free agency. Hmmm.

Yeah, that's fair.

The LOI has to be able to mean something for the school, as well as the player. The school needs to know that once a kid has signed, he's with them for a time they can count on. But this would also give the player an option to portal out after two seasons, and maybe even make himself available to the NFL draft.

Something has to be done. There has to be boundaries for both the players and the schools. And a truly independent commission regulating all this.

[THE_WIZARD_]

You are talking about a contract...which does that make the player an employee? Does employment law start coming into play with this? Right now what you have in "name" is NIL...name image and likeness not "pay for play" (but of course that is what it defacto is). The schools of course have reservations about making these kids "employees" for a number of reasons. Will be interesting how that shakes out. The portal can be fixed very easily...just limit each player to one portal move during their career. But the courts could say if they are "employees" how can you restrict an worker like this.

I think we need to find Marty and get his investigator buddy to enlighten us.

[AlabamAlum]

Thursday-Friday Games:

I like Army, Washington, and Miami vs the spread.

[THE_WIZARD_]

I'd like you to STFU.

[Mike]

Ahhhh, Washington at Rutgers on a Friday night. For all the Michigan - USC games we get to enjoy, we have to suffer one of these indignities. I think it's a good trade-off, though.