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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

Jaxbuck
Bestbuck36 said:
Totally agree with your points and appreciate the dumbing down for an old pecked wood, like me. :cool:

The biggest question for me is where does the 'Letter of Intent' come into play? Does that not constitute a work contract between the athlete and the institution when they sign it?
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I am not a lawyer and have never seen an actual LOI agreement for college football but they are not the same thing as an employment agreement in the real world.

LOI in CFB means I agree to come play football for you in return for a scholarship. It binds both sides to do whatever is in the agreement. That’s why guys have to be”released” from them.

As @Trevi said above, and I mentioned in one of my anti common sense posts, these have been 1 year deals between player and school for the majority of CFB history. It was just the other way around so now that the schools and their lobby are trying to do what’s best for the sport-they don’t mention that so much.

This is the modern coal mine owners working together to buy politicians and control the cost of labor so they can keep control of the tv money. They know that only 20-30 teams are big enough brands to survive in a world of year to year free agent bidding wars and that even then , those teams cannot carry the expense of the 30 some odd teams at the university that don’t make money.

This is the fight for how it’s going to go forward. Old owners find a way to still control it or it totally blows up and changes (imo).
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RB Legend Bey (Official Thread)

Herb Kirkstreit
Legend is an early favorite for the Newcomer of the Year Herbie. He was developed at Tennessee into the player he is today, before transferring to Ohio State. Tennessee plays in the SEC, where it just means more. So in the end, this is really similar to the Caleb Downs and Justin Fields situations.
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RB Legend Bey (Official Thread)

RugbyBuck
My favorite play from 2024 was bringing Jeremiah in motion like he was going to take a toss sweep, dragging the defense with him which left the space he'd left wide open, and having him shift back, take a pass, and waltz in. I'm sure there's a designation for that play that's above my pay grade, but my point is that we could, assuming that Legend is as advertised, set that play up earlier in the year by running him, as I'm sure we will, on jet sweeps.
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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

Trevi
Bestbuck36 said:
Totally agree with your points and appreciate the dumbing down for an old pecked wood, like me. :cool:

The biggest question for me is where does the 'Letter of Intent' come into play? Does that not constitute a work contract between the athlete and the institution when they sign it?
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I believe at one time in the not too distant past the schools only admitted to one year at a time to the athletic scholarship. The BIG 10 committed to all four year scholarships in 2014. The remaining Power 5 conferences followed that in around 2015. As I recall, Nick for one was pretty infamous for not renewing scholarships to players that were not performing up to expectations.
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TN RB David Gabriel Georges (Tennessee Verbal)

Bestbuck36
Buckeye86 said:
Would it be negative recruiting to point out that DGG’s huge deal with Tennessee directly reduces their ability to surround him with quality players?

Point to the recruiting class he’s in, point to the current players on the team. Ohio State invests across its roster to compete for national championships. Tennessee sells out for a handful of players each year and crosses their fingers that will be enough as they hope for the best with the rest of their roster.

Would it be negative recruiting to point to the strength and conditioning results in college and projecting through to the NFL? Ohio Stater literally has more than twice as many players in the NFL right now (80-39).

Would it be negative recruiting to point out that Tennessee’s head coach will likely get fired with another year or two of highly likely mediocre results?

Outside of the money in question, choosing Ohio State is the easiest decision in the world. Can Tennessee throw enough money at the family to make them look past everything else? I guess we’ll see.

Also, interesting timing on this announcement considering that an Adidas deal at Tennessee is reportedly a big part of the financial discussion.

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Doing God's work sir! Carry on accordingly
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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

Bestbuck36
Jaxbuck said:
yes CBA = Collective Bargaining Agreement It gives the worker a voice in what rights they give away in return for whatever benefits they bargain for. To have one, they must be an employee and a union member as I understand basic labor law.

People wanting to restrict movement of college football players as the market stands right now are advocating disregarding basic concepts of labor law.

Put the word "coal miner" in for college football player.
-A group of mine owners gets together and decides that paying so much for labor is bad for business
-They buy some politicians
-The politicians come up with a scheme, in the best interest of the miners themselves of course, to restrict movement/income.

That's collusion and that's been settled since the late 19th century. You can't do this shit to people.

It makes zero difference what the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL or whoever else do. They have the employee/employer structure, unions and a CBA. College football does not. The players are just individual contributors, like coal miner, that get to choose which mine they work for and are free to change mines as often as they please if the money is better at another mine.
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Totally agree with your points and appreciate the dumbing down for an old pecker wood, like me. :cool:

The biggest question for me is where does the 'Letter of Intent' come into play? Does that not constitute a work contract between the athlete and the institution when they sign it?
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RB Lamar "Bo" Jackson (All B1G)

calibuck
Don't have any problem with the projection, but cannot really see three Buckeyes splitting votes, with one of them being Heisman winner. Most teams bemoan having two players in the running, let alone three. Don't get me wrong, would love to see it, but the law of large numbers kinda implies that won't happen. Especially with last year Heisman finalist, and the 'best player' in college football. That's pretty tall cotton....
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How's the weather?

calibuck
It's called 'lack of water'. Back then, plenty of snow, which was stored in the Sierra Mountains. When warm weather came, snows melted and ergo the rivers ran high. Able to be stored, and used. Not so much today. The 5 is full of dried up trees, stone fruit, nuts whatever, because the farms west of the 99 don't have enough water allocation. It was very pretty, once upon a time. California would rather spend tens of billions on a train from Bakersfield to Merced (ps, not a single rail of track laid to date), instead of dams to hold that water for sustained release. And older timers than I have told tales of boats that sailed down the middle of the state from San Francisco, on the waterways.
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