The Future of NIL and College Sports

[@jwb1227]

College sports fans will not stand for College football becoming more like the professional NFL. The whole reason why college football is better than the NFL is because it is COLLEGE football. The unregulated NIL will ruin college ball if this is not reigned in with some sort of limiting guide rails to regulate NIL inflation (which is happening already) and players to become committed to a school for a limited time in return for NIL packages. Currently, the players can transfer in and out of different schools like they are at a shopping mall, going in and out of different stores. This is already becoming ridiculous.

[@soldierofgodrick2445]

The constant transfers arent the worst thing for parity IMO. There's a reason UGA and UA weren't absolute juggernauts again, and there were several teams with a legit shot to win it all. Freedom of movement makes it harder to stuff NFL talent 4 or 5 deep on the depth chart year after year

[@batmandeltaforce]

Yep, purdy sure I am done with college football...

[@jwb1227]

@@soldierofgodrick2445 Not against freedom of movement at all. All I am saying is put some guard rails around the *Wild Wild West* situation around the transfer process. NCAA really screwed up the whole College Ball by opening up the flood gate without some thinking behind it. What do I mean? For example, put some rigor around the TIMING of when transfer portal window opens and closes throughout the year. No one wants bunch of players opting out and transferring out 2 weeks before bowl games. Also, the word *commitment* should be re-looked at. What is the meaning behind a player being committed to a school when he can just up and leave like the wind. There should be some sort of *give and take* when a school makes a recruiting happen and the player accepts or commits. There should be some sort of skin in the game - otherwise another school just has to drop a bag of money and poaches a player. MICHIGAN is not immune either. Now that Michigan achieved succes in winning a hard won Natty, there will be schools poaching Wolverine players from the shadows...

[@areguapiri]

Pay the players with "revenues".

[@jwb1227]

@@areguapiri Paying players to stop them from transferring out?? That will not work because there will always be another school willing to pay more. This leads to inflation in paying players. Not sustainable. The solution is allowing only 1 transfer per player for his college career. Each player can transfer 1 time in his college career. That will make decision of transfer more important so players won't change schools so much.

[@WispFigment]

Honestly, you may as well separate them from the college and form the equivalent of an NFL G league and give them labor rights and maybe offer grants for education opportunities instead of requiring them to go to school at all. There is no reason these sports should be propping up universities with shrinking tuitions Also, on a separate note about viewership, it will be interesting to see what happens with viewership as the population is going to decrease (if trends are correct, of course)

[@bd2378]

If NIL isn't regulated, a select few teams will (large, wealthy alumni) will be buying championships. Downs flipping from UGA to OSU felt like a precursor of what's to come. The reported difference in NIL was 500k versus $1.3-1.7 mil. Professional teams have salary caps; I don't see how NCAA could even suggest parity in their product without some form of regulation.

[@batmandeltaforce]

Yep, it is the beginning of the end for me. I do not watch the NFL because of the centralization of corruption. This is probably the point at which I quit watching college football. I already quit the NFL. There is still high school:) College football if dying.

[@michaelbee2165]

Besides a player committing to a certain school for X number of years and playing in bowl games, NIL contracts also need to be incentive and performance based. It's becoming apparent they are just getting the money regarless of how well or poorly they play. Some of these guys just go through the motions without much effort.

[@enderwiggins8483]

The fans have leverage over the owners and players, I quit NFL when they did the neeling and will never come back. Real close to giving up on the college game too.

[@areguapiri]

National Anthem be damned!

[@BenC-77]

Title IX....it's going to create a problem when women's cricket gets on ESPN crying about how unfair it is that CFB makes more $$...dumpster fire that destroys Collegiate Athletics

[@jmiller9972]

Rip the band aid off and make them employees already

[@JamesBond-zd5jx]

The courts, by not allowing reasonable enforcement of the rules, are greatly to blame for the crapshow that is now CFB. Should have never gotten rid of the “transfer and sit a year” requirement. The dude at the beginning NAILS IT. This can’t come soon enough.

[@areguapiri]

...lol...😂

[@jwb1227]

To the guest with Coach Ryan Day wanna be beard - you don't know what you are talking about when comparing NFL to college ball. No real college football fan wants their school football program to become like NFL teams. We don't want parity like in the NFL. That is the whole point of college football. What you are talking about is creating an NFL league by using college football teams with NFL style structure and rigors. There will be no school retaining their school culture if that happens. There are guys like this who are waiting in the bushes to make millions off of college players by advocating for college teams to become just another NFL league team. I will stop watching college football if that happens because that is the same reason why I don't watch NFL games any more.

[@indigomarine91]

Top schools are going to be "bidding" for these kids and the kids will take the highest dollar. The bottom schools will suffer and the weathly schools with get the tip top players. It will become unbalanced here in the next 2 or 3 years. Its starting this off season from the most players entering the portal at %10 then EVER before

[@shoob7979]

Employment Status should be and inevitably WILL BE the future of CFB which just typing that feels I need a hot shower scrubbing unfortunately !! When it does I say to the recruits that an education/room & board/food & beverages etc. is no longer afforded to them upon signing with that university and since there's an income provided that the amenities even though they're sorta frivolous but the other students/staff not playing aren't giving these items free of charge so ya know EQUITY/EQUALITY or whatever nonsense that's being claimed nonstop. O/U 4.5 months after last game played by someone moaning it's UNFAIR and they're OWED $$ after they left campus without a degree, likely physical damage of some kind and certainly NO guarantees to play at next level!!! SO at that point we'll have a professional and minor league teams in the sport of football. History, Tradition and Ultimately the connection and Love of CFB WILL rapidly deteriate and something else in our nostalgic memories. Hope it's better than that but people suck ESPECIALLY without Leadership which is so effing hard to find in CFB

[@stevenselleck5460]

College football’s ruined. It’s now pro sports. All the passion/craziness is gone just like the nfl

[@edwardjones282]

Its been pro sports for a while. They were just getting free labor.

[@TylerEubank]

Separate football from the rest of college sports

[@Swerve-Online]

Sounds like wishful thinking. I dont see how you make them employees with destroying 99% of college sports. For every LSU, there are 8 other small schools that can not afford benefits and insurance that would go along with employment and the lifelong payments for injuries for every althelet that doesn't go pro in every sport.

[@austinh681]

Separate college sports from college. Lets stop the pretending already.