Overlooked in all this: Carson Beck is in his sixth year of college football. He’s been in 2 nc games, four ccgs, had 47 starts, is 6’3”, weighs in at 220 something, and can run the ball.

wonderful as he is, this is still just Sayin’s second year, his first CCG and his first start in a CFP game, he’s barely 6’ and I’m guessing weighs about 180. Yet to show an inclination to run with the ball.

thats a lot of advantage to Beck and Miami.

Captain Buckeye said:

One things for sure… I thought teams like OSU, Michigan, Alabama, Texas, etc would thrive in the portal.

Who knew it’d be Texas Tech, Oregon, Indiana, and Miami.

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Eh. Let’s let it play out.

Downs, Sayin, Judkins , Howard etc. it’s not like we haven’t done well.

One things for sure… I thought teams like OSU, Michigan, Alabama, Texas, etc would thrive in the portal.

Who knew it’d be Texas Tech, Oregon, Indiana, and Miami.

Jaxbuck said:

With tsun child labor preferably

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I know Chaz use to play at Penn State but come on guys

dragurd said:

Well we can't have theoir QB's tossing coal it'll never go in the burner. Maybe make it their olines day job

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Tsun child labor powering my data center

Jaxbuck said:

I think we are starting to see it.

Problem is the market place. If you’re the place that wants to lock people down 130 some odd other places will say “ we don’t do that here. Come on down”

It’s got to happen at some point but it’s not something you want to be first with

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Yeah I thought of that too. Damn what a broken system because you’re right how do you not look like the asshole program sticking it to kids?

I suppose you just lean into it. IMO, you don’t sign any more 5 star kids. You take 25-30 kids every year that are seen as “projects” out of high school. This way you’ll get a year to see which 15 are serious ball players. Then with the attrition you go out and portal productive experienced kids.

Then rinse repeat.

I would never pay for a HS top recruit unless they’re a sure fire can’t miss. RB, WR, and secondary players maybe but either LOS or LB or QB you need developed players.

This needs to become the NFL soon. There should be 1-4 year deals and that should be enforceable.

dragurd said:

Question is will courts let them enforce contracts or just continue the free for all

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It will depend on the quality of each contract.

I think the issue will be the same as any civil suit. It can drag out for a couple of years and will just end up in a settlement.

Money may change hands but you can’t make them stay if they don’t want to.

Captain Buckeye said:

These collectives need to start having kids sign contracts then and take them to court if they bail. The kids having all the say in how things go is ridiculous. These schools need to start enforcing or it’ll continue.

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Question is will courts let them enforce contracts or just continue the free for all

Captain Buckeye said:

These collectives need to start having kids sign contracts then and take them to court if they bail. The kids having all the say in how things go is ridiculous. These schools need to start enforcing or it’ll continue.

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I think we are starting to see it.

Problem is the market place. If you’re the place that wants to lock people down 130 some odd other places will say “ we don’t do that here. Come on down”

It’s got to happen at some point but it’s not something you want to be first with

Life has a rough ass way of giving feedback on bad choices.

Let’s see how this goes for him.

Jaxbuck said:

You can put clawbacks in a contract but the ship has sailed on forcing kids to stay. SCOTUS said so.

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These collectives need to start having kids sign contracts then and take them to court if they bail. The kids having all the say in how things go is ridiculous. These schools need to start enforcing or it’ll continue.