I’m willing to try anything at this point. If CFB continues on the current path, I’m out. And soon.
Expansion to 12 teams in the playoff may end the conference expansion. What’s the $$$ for a playoff spot??? That could lead to independents lol
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I’m willing to try anything at this point. If CFB continues on the current path, I’m out. And soon.
It's become like the NFL, your recruits are like draft picks, and the portal is like paying for and picking up proven free agents. What college football doesn't have is compensation for loss of free agents, or players through the portal, which is something they need to look into. They are going to have to put a cap on the number of portal players you pick up, and you get more portal options as you lose players, which is the hard part, because many players going to the portal end up at lesser schools. So they will have to grade portal players, which means none of the cap stuff will happen. Hanging onto your good players becomes critical to success in the future.
Except that the 85 needs to be 70.They need to move to an “open 85” and let teams fill their rosters with whoever they want. You cannot graduate a big senior class, then have a dozen kids leave in the portal, only to restock with 25 kids and be well under capacity. You will get crushed and it will take years to get back to 85 scholarship players.
The talented kids will get NIL $ and exposure. The less talented kids will find themselves in a circus of transferring, recruiting and moving around the country trying to find the right spot.
Except that the 85 needs to be 70.
If they move to an open roster system, I think they need to restrict the portal. Otherwise you'll have the Alabamas that just build their roster every year by stealing the best players from other teams. Blue bloods won't even have freshman players, they'll make them try out with other teams before they snag them through the portal. On the plus side for the players, at least that way they get to play, instead of sitting on the bench at 'Bama. On the downside for everyone else...you watch a kid develop into a player and a leader, someone you can build a team around...and then he's gone for someone else to build a team around.
As for 'free agent compensation' in college, my radical, never will be implemented idea: If team 1 poaches a kid from team 2 through the portal, team 1 has to pay for the scholarship of the new player team 2 replaces the transfer player with, until the transfer player exhausts his eligibility. Effectively, taking a player through the portal costs 2 roster spots. That'll cut down on the willingness of teams to sign huge portal classes, without actually putting a quantified restriction in place.
I like that idea too...except I'd hate to get locked in on a freshman that can't make the transition. Maybe use the freshman year as an evaluation period, and sign new multi-year LOIs following spring ball?Imo, 70 is the way to go.
As for Bama, disagree. They have first pick of the best HS talent & $ to keep them there. Unless the kid is a super star why would they shop the portal that hard?
The $ makes sense for schools with $$$. If they are one player away from bigger bowl $ or more ticket sales, why wouldnt they pay off the other school’s scholarship? Cost of doing business.
If school’s were smart they’d figure out a way to make LOI’s multi year deals.
I like that idea too...except I'd hate to get locked in on a freshman that can't make the transition. Maybe use the freshman year as an evaluation period, and sign new multi-year LOIs following spring ball?