I'm no lawyer, but couldn't a change to the letter of intent an athlete signs take care of any legal challenges by requiring the athlete to remain as a part of the team until the season including bowl games over. It used to be the standard that transferring would require sitting out for a period of time.
Yes, and again, outside of a few games nobody really cared about results unless you were a fan of those teams in whatever bowl you want to insert. Now, I know there are those who will watch any football game and find joy but for the vast majority that isn’t the case. The older I have gotten the more I have noticed this. Again, the playoff will help because guys will not sit those out, but the number of other games will contract in the years ahead.
Several states have already filed lawsuits challenging the NCAA policy of requiring players to sit out a year after their second transfer. And they're probably going to win. Any attempt to strip eligibility away from players because they didn't stick around for a bowl game is going to meet similar legal challenges.
There isn’t a coach out there that will want a player or several players taking reps or being in meetings/practices who have no interest in being there.
I almost wrote this same point but then I thought about it and decided not to. I think i. most cases that’s probably correct. But there are probably cases where a coach would want the current starter to play even if he knows he intends to transfer.
I know you weren’t asking me, but I’m so old I was at the frigid Gator Bowl in 1983. I thought the cold would be advantage Iowa and Florida would suffer but did not work out.
The Bowls were huge back then. Meant way more than they seem to now. They were appointment TV.
Its hard to get excited about bowl season when they have so many bowls that 5 win teams are participating.
They have it great or nobody would aspire to play D1. They HAD it pretty damn awesome before this Wild West crap began.
Coldest game, by far, I have ever attended. Long delay leaving because an old Hawk fan collapsed and died from a heart attack outside our bus. 😔
I’d have told Day to pound sand. Haha if he was running me off there’s no way I’d play for him.
I just liked watching college football. More bowls the better I used to think.
I really started losing interest in cfb in the last 5-8 years. Been mainky watching Iowa during that time and that is getting hard to watch. And Iowas grind it out wins against bad teams are only a small portion of why its getting hard to watch. The frequent commercial breaks are making the product worse. At a game, nothing seems to drain the energy of a crowd going crazy than a red hat stopping play for commercials.
Thank goodness you arrived to unnecessarily inject politics into the thread. You're a special one.
There also wasn’t as much competition for eyeballs either - basic cable, no internet. Between Thansksgiving and New Years Day, if you liked sports, you watched college football because that was about all you had to watch.
I doubt that will help much. If a guy has already decided he intends to transfer then forcing him to wait a few weeks to declare isn’t going to be enough incentive to stay and participate in the bowl game.
I wonder if there is a way that the NCAA and/or the bowls could provide insurance policies for players who project in the draft. Going back to the days of Chuck Long, players who chose to continue playing in college have purchased insurance policies in case they suffer a serious injury.
I’m not sure if that would be legal. Then again, there’s not much left that isn’t legal anymore. Except football players betting on women’s basketball games, apparently.
There will always be postseason football. There is huge money in that. But the bowl system that we have known for decades is circling the drain. The Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl were total disasters.
I think you’re generally right.
In combination with bowls paying NIL and winner's share I think it would impact the decision of many. I believe school's can already pay for insurance policies but that's not much of an incentive - you get paid only if you have a career impacting injury. There's nothing illegal about private entities paying college players now. That's what NIL is all about.
The issue with the portal date is the players still need to hit the enrollment period at the school, typically December 10-January 10.
Why? I mean, I understand the motivation for it but it's not mandatory that someone transfers at semester break. And there's no reason someone can't announce on Jan 1 and enroll Jan 10.
As I’ve already stated several times, if a player has made up his mind on December 1 that he wants to transfer then making him wait a month before entering the portal isn’t going to compel him to stay for the bowl game.
You have no idea how it would affect decisions. Particularly in combination with NIL and winner payment from the bowls.
1000% this. Been that way for years now.
Especially when you wield it on social media, to the surprise of your employer, in response to a perceived slight.
I haven’t really looked at it, but I imagine if they win a case striking down an NCAA policy requiring a year after the second transfer, such a rule would survive at the conference or school level. The problem would then be if all of the conferences or schools got together and agreed (colluded) to effectively impose the NCAA-level rule.
Pretreat sure Hawkeye Elvis is a suicide survivor. He has a tat to remind him of that. His dad left the family early on.
