What concerns me is what the
combination of the new transfer rule and the NIL could do to collegiate sports. One or the other in isolation aren't nearly as much a worry as how the two of them in tandem could affect athletics.
The link below describes how Texas A&M spent an unfathomable $30 Million or so to effectively buy the #1 recruiting class. The coaching staff allegedly identified players they wanted, relayed those to a "point donor", and then that person would work with others to sponsor the targeted players, to the tune of $30 Million for their roughly 30 recruits.
https://brobible.com/sports/article/texa...nil-money/
NIL is the new kid on the block, and something that will have to be dealt with from this point forward, as there's not even a need to do anything under the table anymore. The biggest and richest schools, with their legions of old school booster money, can now literally and legally buy the best players.
But the other new kid on the block, as you guys know, is the new transfer rule which says you're now immediately eligible to play for your next school after your first transfer. I actually liked that rule until this whole NIL thing came into the picture. But what we're seeing now is an atmosphere where guys are putting themselves into the portal to see who'll offer them more. Those two new rules in tandem could turn collegiate sports into the Wild West, where kids start seeing themselves as hired guns going to the highest bidders. OU's starting QB recently put himself into the portal to see if anyone might offer him enough to entice him to play somewhere else, knowing he'd be eligible to play immediately at the next school. He also said though that he could still stay with OU.
So as we see this play itself out, the NCAA will need to take a look some things. They'll need to look at whether they should cap the NIL. Depending on how many guys start transferring, they should also look at whether they may need to revoke the new transfer rule and go back to requiring guys to sit out a year on their first transfer also. If it's not in place yet, they should also look at making it a requirement that if you put yourself in the portal, you MUST then go to a different school, and not just put yourself out there for feelers as OU's QB apparently has.
At this point, between the portal and NIL, there's really not much of a difference anymore between the NCAA and a professional league. The funny thing of it is that you know a certain number of these high-priced kids (whether transfers, or whether straight out of high school) will end up being busts professionally, meaning they'll actually make more playing in college than in the professional ranks. The sad thing though is that NIL and the transfer portal in tandem could be the final nail in G5's coffin, meaning a permanent and fully transparent separation of P5 and G5 may now be on our doorstep, ringing the bell. We've gone from P5's having the money to pay for the best facilities and coaching staffs, to now even having the money to outright buy all the best players. It hadn't been a fair playing field for decades already, but at this point, the deck is now just so stacked that it's almost hopeless unless other changes are forthcoming.
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What are your thoughts on the TRANSFER PORTAL...
