(03-14-2024 12:19 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

The NCAA has become a joke. The only place where you’ll find as many spineless people is in Washington D.C.

Absolutely ridiculous.

At the very least the NCAA needs to require transfers to sign a letter of commitment when they announce their decision to transfer to a specific school so coaches know who they have on next year’s roster. Now a commitment doesn’t mean anything until the kid shows up in August.

Yet if we take a transfer in we are forced to honor that scholarship going forward. Completely ridiculous. If players can leave without penalty we should be able to cut them without penalty

I really hate the direction college sports has been and is heading. Guess I'll just focus on the NFL.

Wild, wild west. College athletics is becoming dead to me.

This was basically done after the court ruling in WV a few months back.

From this ESPN article:

Previously, the NCAA's one-time transfer rule allowed athletes to play immediately at the first school they transferred to but they then had to sit out a year if they transferred again -- or apply to the NCAA for a waiver to compete immediately.

In December, the NCAA proposed this policy in reaction to a West Virginia judge's ruling intended to stop the organization from enforcing its bylaw barring athletes from transferring multiple times and playing right way. The NCAA agreed to terms on a preliminary injunction that runs through at least the end of the academic year.

In January, the U.S. Department of Justice joined the lawsuit against the NCAA's transfer rules, a suit that argues that the limitations on transfers violate antitrust law.

According to the amended complaint for injunctive relief, filed in January, the NCAA's transfer bylaw "unjustifiably restrains the ability of these college athletes to engage in the market for their labor as NCAA Division I college athletes."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...ligibility

(04-17-2024 04:13 PM)BlueRaiderDave Wrote:  Wild, wild west. College athletics is becoming dead to me.

The Power Greed conferences are already there for me.

The NCAA is doing all it can to spread it to the rest of FBS and beyond.

I mean, I understand player freedom. They should have the right to transfer just like regular students have the right to transfer.

The difference is, on the academic side, the competitive schools look at things like transfer rates. If an engineering student tests off the charts, but has transferred every semester he's been in college, he's NOT going to be accepted into MIT.

There are no such repercussions in collegiate athletics anymore. And that means there are no controls.

(04-18-2024 11:31 AM)whupemall Wrote:  

(04-17-2024 04:13 PM)BlueRaiderDave Wrote:  Wild, wild west. College athletics is becoming dead to me.

The Power Greed conferences are already there for me.

The NCAA is doing all it can to spread it to the rest of FBS and beyond.

I mean, I understand player freedom. They should have the right to transfer just like regular students have the right to transfer.

The difference is, on the academic side, the competitive schools look at things like transfer rates. If an engineering student tests off the charts, but has transferred every semester he's been in college, he's NOT going to be accepted into MIT.

There are no such repercussions in collegiate athletics anymore. And that means there are no controls.

And Clemson doesn't like taking in transfers when they were a top football program. Any school can choose not to recruit kids with multiple transfers. Why do we need all the schools making rules together to restrict players? That's messed up imo.

Ruining college athletics, one decision at a time.

(03-15-2024 09:34 PM)topper1296 Wrote:  I really hate the direction college sports has been and is heading. Guess I'll just focus on the NFL.

100% this. It’s why I had always liked college over Pros but at least now professional sports have contracts and free agency. This 80%+ roster turnover every single year WILL kill off hardcore college athletics.