College Football is a mess
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You fail to understand that the buyout remains an impediment for the free movement of a coach.
Baseball and hockey do it.
Colleges are primarily for education, so there's that.....
Where it is going to be especially good is college BB. There are going to be far fewer 1 and dones, and while the blue bloods always have the edge, no longer will 4-5 of the top 25 kids sign with Duke or Kentucky year after year. Because those schools will now bring in experienced guys from the portal so kids will go elsewhere. Big spenders in the SEC are really going to benefit. But these guys and we see it now especially with low post guys who have been devalued by the NBA, it makes sense to stay in school for 4-5 years of payout. Or kids going to Europe or the D League, now will stay in college, because what also doesn't seem to matter much is eligibility.
A&M just paid $77 million to fire their coach. I fail to see these buyouts as impediments to the top 25 programs.
LOL. Impediments can be overcome. Otherwise they would be called something else like "impossibles". It is still an impediment.
I've explained it several times. You're becoming just like Souf in your lack of comprehension.
I never went to Pitt unless you count one marketing course that I cross registered. Technically that loosely makes me a Pitt alum (one who attended, per the dictionary), but try telling that to the alumni association. So no, I didn’t go to Pitt but I am a Pitt fan.
As I was driving to church this morning, I thought of something that maybe even you can grasp.
Is Sidney Crosby a free agent?
Of course not. Because he has a contract with the Penguins. But he could go to another team as long as his contract terms are met and the other team agrees to compensation agreeable to the Penguins.
That is exactly like college FB coaches. They have a contract with their school. They can go to another school as long as the contract terms are met and the other school agrees to the compensation (generally in the contract).
Neither Crosby nor the coach incurs a cost in the move, a point you continually raise. But neither are free agents due to the contractual impediments.
Right.
College sports are at their best when:
1. Your superstars are staying for as long as possible.
2. You have a greater assortment of legit national title contenders each year, even if you have some consistent contenders.
NIL is giving us that.
I think the problem a lot of people have with NIL isn’t that it isn’t helping the sport, but that it’s not helping *my* team. What do I care if it weakens Alabama and turns Ole Miss into a national title contender? I don’t cheer for the Rebels. What do I care if Missouri is now getting 5* recruits, I don’t cheer for Missouri.
I promise you, if baseball and hockey had a choice, they'd choose to eliminate their minor leagues and save millions of dollars. In the case of MLB, it's over $1 billion per year. That's $33 mil per year per team the owners would get to keep.
In 2020, MLB tried to shrink minor league baseball by 25% to save them some buck. They were sued and had to settle out of court, fearing that a court challenge to their antitrust exemption could be catastrophic.
What if Pitt eventually drops to a lower level? Say they decide they don't want to pay the players? Are you still watching Pitt games or watching the games of those that decide to pay players and be at the highest level?
An NFL farm system would allow teams to select players that have been at least playing when injuries necessitate replacing rostered players. Currently the league is essentially bringing players in off the street.
I won't watch Pitt unless they play at a level that allows them to play in the championship tourney. I will continue to watch FBS football if the players remain students, even if paid by the school.
They aren’t that big or deep and they’re merely practicing. And NFL teams really don’t practice that much.
How many players is on an NFL’s practice squad? What do they do on the practice squad? The Steelers signed guys who were sitting at home and now they’re playing. What other professional league does that?
Hell-
Kansas paid Charlie Weis and Les Myles millions to not coach
It’s not just top programs
