Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)
- By Zurp
- College Football
- 4555 Replies
speaking of missing the mark....what is different about these kids and any other tax paying citizen? Anyone can leave for more money anytime they want to. This is America.
You down for having your profession regulated like that? By a governing body you have no say in?
I think the argument is with having the kids sign contracts. Sign a 2-year or 3-year or 4-year contract. There... now you're stuck in this contract, unless we release you. And the road should run both ways. You signed me to a 3-year contract. You can't release me until it's up, unless I agree to part ways.
I'm no lawyer, so I don't know what clauses need to go into those contracts.
I mean, Joey Joe Joe can't just leave the Miami Dolphins any time he wants - he needs to play out his contract. I know the Dolphins can cut Joey Joe Joe, so he was smart and made a certain amount of his contract "guaranteed".
I think the difference between NCAA and NFL is that the NCAA pretends to include higher education as the reason the kids are there. "This school doesn't have what I really want to study, so I'd like to transfer to another school." And who am I to tell him that he can't transfer schools? Sure, his contract might say he has 2 more years to play football for the first school, but he's already transferred out. He can't go to play football for one school and go play college in another school. So contracts probably can't work for college athletes.
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