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Who are we going to sign in free agency?
That's pretty much the local take here in Columbus--and they had one coming and one going that way.That really is where this is headed to.
Get down on your knees and praise the Lord,
Money. Not game.I can’t imagine the pressure that will be put on coaches to try to maintain a roster. Recruiting used to be just for incoming freshman (and coaches). Now you are constantly recruiting players with even a year of eligibility left. Players will sign with the top teams, then filter down once they lose the starting position. It’s already happening to some degree but this opens the floodgates. I’m torn on whether this is good for the game.
If nothing else, it just goes to show that the NCAA doesn’t give a rat’s a$$ about academics. It’s all about the game.
I can’t imagine the pressure that will be put on coaches to try to maintain a roster. Recruiting used to be just for incoming freshman (and coaches). Now you are constantly recruiting players with even a year of eligibility left. Players will sign with the top teams, then filter down once they lose the starting position. It’s already happening to some degree but this opens the floodgates. I’m torn on whether this is good for the game.
If nothing else, it just goes to show that the NCAA doesn’t give a rat’s a$$ about academics. It’s all about the game.
So this goes back to if the coaches and AD's don't want this (which i can see no reason why they would) then this is being driven by NCAA bureaucrats. And the NCAA driving this is because it makes the NCAA money. .
Straight cash Homey!When these players transfer, do they have to return the booster money? How does that work?
Tate was granted the waiver because, OSU didnt recruit him to stay! So OSU doesnt kiss his ass he gets to leave??? Its a brave new world....
It’s important to know that Tate Martell’s attorney, the Phoenix-based Travis Leach, does not believe his client’s waiver will open the floodgates to full-on college football free agency. Of course, if a broken Humpty Dumpty was discovered splayed on the ground and you happened to be a lawyer, it’d be your job to assure the townspeople those are not your client’s fingerprints on his back.
Still, Leach believes there are specifics to this case that will keep the floodgates closed. Specifically, that Ohio State made no effort to keep Martell after Justin Fields arrived in early January.
“This was a fact and circumstances case,” Leach told the Miami Herald. “I don’t think this is something you will see a wholesale change to the way people look at [NCAA transfer cases]. It was a unique situation.”
Additionally, a Miami source told the Herald that Ohio State made no effort to keep Martell once he notified Buckeyes coaches of his desire to live.
Of course, that may not make Martell’s case that unique. According to a January Associated Press study, 50 of the 63 applicants (79 percent) have been granted waivers since the Division I Council passed its new guidelines last April.
Perhaps you, beloved reader, are ready for that. The bulk of coaches most certainly are not, and the Powers That Be writing the rules of the NCAA don’t appear to be either, given the Valentine’s Day announcement that the organization would take another look at latching the door they opened last April.
The concept of amateur based college sports is dead, at least for revenue generating sports. You can’t have a multi billion dollar industry that operates the way the NCAA does. They want it both ways, taking the TV money and keeping the figment of amateurism. But you can’t have both, not with the amount of money involved.
Time to admit it and either move on or live with semi-pro sports. Too bad. Another enjoyable institution ruined.