Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

[scarletngray]

I hate what CFB has become. Trying to adjust my perspective but I truly wonder if I'll even watch it 5 years from now. I watch very little NFL and this is just becoming a smaller version with seemingly less restrictions thanks to the NCAA.

 

[buckeyemania11]

I hate what CFB has become. Trying to adjust my perspective but I truly wonder if I'll even watch it 5 years from now. I watch very little NFL and this is just becoming a smaller version with seemingly less restrictions thanks to the NCAA.

It's a more chaotic version of the NFL basically, at least in the NFL players are locked into multiple year contracts for the most part. It's a just a wild free for all every offseason in college football now.

 

[buckeyemania11]

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

It's a more chaotic version of the NFL basically, at least in the NFL players are locked into multiple year contracts for the most part. It's a just a wild free for all every offseason in college football now.

and a salary cap

 

[Jaxbuck]

We use the NFL as the comparison because it's the same sport but what this is most like, to me, is early days MLB.

There were no restrictions on spending/talent acquisition. It was the wild west.

Ironically enough, it was the owners who got together and said, "look, we are wasting money by competing like this. Let's agree to some rules..."

then players eventually unionized and could bargain a contract

then you had a workable professional sports model (with no salary cap, granted)

Some one with a vested financial interest has to "own" the teams and employ the players. Then you can have order from chaos.

 

[zbuck]

We use the NFL as the comparison because it's the same sport but what this is most like, to me, is early days MLB.

There were no restrictions on spending/talent acquisition. It was the wild west.

Ironically enough, it was the owners who got together and said, "look, we are wasting money by competing like this. Let's agree to some rules..."

then players eventually unionized and could bargain a contract

then you had a workable professional sports model (with no salary cap, granted)

Some one with a vested financial interest has to "own" the teams and employ the players. Then you can have order from chaos.

Can we dig Steinbrenner up and make him in charge of Ohio State NIL ?

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Every time I open this thread.

 

[pnuts34]

 

[Onebuckfan]

I’m trusting the staff on the portal.. they got two AA last year. If they do that again all is well.

 

[brodybuck21]

TT is on a roll in the portal. Supposedly they have a couple alumni billionaires throwing some cash around

 

[buckeyemania11]

I’m trusting the staff on the portal.. they got two AA last year. If they do that again all is well.

The throw money at everyone and hope it sticks strategy is fun but I think the wait and get guys who are actually fits strategy might pay off better.

 

[Captain Buckeye]

We're really gonna have 30-year-old men playing college football, huh? The lack of leadership permeating throughout this sport is fucking embarrassing

Sport is absolutely unrecognizable from what it was in even 2019.

Makes zero sense to not count JUCO. Is it college or not? Because it is…

At this point just have all the major colleges join the NFL for fucks sake. Then have the JUCOs be what we are to the NFL when we join the NFL.

 

[pnuts34]

 

[pnuts34]

Sport is absolutely unrecognizable from what it was in even 2019.

Makes zero sense to not count JUCO. Is it college or not? Because it is…

At this point just have all the major colleges join the NFL for fucks sake. Then have the JUCOs be what we are to the NFL when we join the NFL.

Did you not think that players almost always went to the highest bidder? You can’t think that every player who went to OSU just went there because they dreamed of being a Buckeye… The only difference now is that there’s an open market to transfer. Kids have been getting paid since the sport was pretty much invented. Any dominant team in the past, there’s next to no way they did it without inducement. The Program came out in the early 90s, Eric Dickerson took the Trans Am in like 1988, and there are countless stories of players being paid, but fans didn’t care when it was just rumors. But when it goes above board people want to clutch their pearls like Clarett was the only player on the NC team to get a new car and money, or that all Troy Smith got was a new suit and a meal paid for. Come on now,this have been going on FOREVER
The JUCO rule makes no sense other than the NCAA screwing up and then over correcting to the point where they open yet another loop hole.

 

[osuvictory1]

Another thought on the portal as it relates to OSU. There may be better options for OSU after the playoffs are finished. More options will be available after the playoffs that OSU may be waiting for.