2024/25 Portal Transfers

On3 wrote today that Texas has interest in Purdue S Dillon Thieneman.

He will see Ohio State and Oregon soon.

 
:yikes: If there is to be any pretense of sports played by college athletes to remain as being played by scholar athletes the NCAA or someone has to take control now.
There can't be players hopping around to 3 4 or 5 schools. When did playing sports at college level become a "career"? Letting agents be part of NIL and portaling probably so ruined it there may be no getting any control.
I'd like to see a follow up on these over a thousand so far portals.

IMO very sad.
 
Horn6721 said:
If there is to be any pretense of sports played by college athletes to remain as being played by scholar athletes the NCAA or someone has to take control now.
There can't be players hopping around to 3 4 or 5 schools. When did playing sports at college level become a "career"? Letting agents be part of NIL and portaling probably so ruined it there may be no getting any control.
I'd like to see a follow up on these over a thousand so far portals.
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Nailed it, 6721. I posted earlier in this thread, but to repeat my suggestions to put some control on the portal:
(1) Portal doesn't open until after the Championship series and all bowl games.
(2) A student athlete gets to portal once. If he graduates from college and still has athletic eligibility remaining, he can portal once more as a Grad Transfer.
IMO, those two simple steps would be a good start at getting some control on this portal mayhem.
 
HHD
Those common sense solutions that are fair to athletes but would dramatically reduce agents interests might be too logical and easy to implement for the NCAA
Wonder if there is pro agent money being thrown at the Nc2a?
 
I think a tougher question about coming up with limits to portal attempts is who enforces it? The NLRB has basically signaled that they're open to calling student athletes "employees" at this point, so depriving someone the ability to change "jobs" seems a little forced in the era of faux amateurism.

I honestly don't mind the whole "6 schools in 5 years" kind of thing.
1. If anyone else who isn't an athlete does it, it's not a problem.
2. Concerns about "owing" anything back to the school beyond the required practices and on-field success are clinging to a model that has already been determined to be unconstitutional.
3. The adults who will eventually hire these student athletes for jobs will be able to ask them "why the hell did you change schools 5 times?" so I don't think it erases any accountability.
4. It forces D1 coaches to face reality and acquire new student athletes in ways that probably should have been open to the athletes all along, so be proactive in marketing your school's appeal.
5. It allows the blue bloods to thrive, but also saves some room for schools like SMU to make waves.
 
Horn6721 said:
:yikes: If there is to be any pretense of sports played by college athletes to remain as being played by scholar athletes the NCAA or someone has to take control now.
There can't be players hopping around to 3 4 or 5 schools. When did playing sports at college level become a "career"? Letting agents be part of NIL and portaling probably so ruined it there may be no getting any control.
I'd like to see a follow up on these over a thousand so far portals.

IMO very sad.
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Agree. It will eventually take all of the color and uniqueness and tradition out of college football. It will create a 12 to 15 team oligarchy and it will be about as interesting as... the nfl. This is what big money and a lot of fans wanted, though.
 
Horns11 said:
I think a tougher question about coming up with limits to portal attempts is who enforces it? The NLRB has basically signaled that they're open to calling student athletes "employees" at this point, so depriving someone the ability to change "jobs" seems a little forced in the era of faux amateurism.

I honestly don't mind the whole "6 schools in 5 years" kind of thing.
1. If anyone else who isn't an athlete does it, it's not a problem.
2. Concerns about "owing" anything back to the school beyond the required practices and on-field success are clinging to a model that has already been determined to be unconstitutional.
3. The adults who will eventually hire these student athletes for jobs will be able to ask them "why the hell did you change schools 5 times?" so I don't think it erases any accountability.
4. It forces D1 coaches to face reality and acquire new student athletes in ways that probably should have been open to the athletes all along, so be proactive in marketing your school's appeal.
5. It allows the blue bloods to thrive, but also saves some room for schools like SMU to make waves.
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LOL. Smu.... like other schools its size, will mostly fade into mediocrity within 5 years.
 
Dionysus said:
OU seems to have a lot of guys transferring out
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Horns11 said:
I'm not saying they'll maintain their 2024 success, but I think other schools who understand NIL and the portal will be able to come out of nowhere and do it.
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Once in a blue moon. I'm concerned that an unregulated market will essentially result in a long-term royalty or oligarchy in college football - 12 to 15 teams with almost all of the good talent. Money now rules, it seems. Some schools might survive with occasional 3 stars or a few 4 stars who blossom late but they won't stick around. Within 10 years, we could have dominance every year by big money/huge fan base "helmet schools". Maybe I'll be wrong but I think we've opened the door to that possibility.
 
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