Kiffin: The Portal has turned college football players into mercenaries

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Voltopia said:
He's not wrong about kids not wanting to go to Ole Miss. He's also not wrong about the direction of college football.

I thought Jayson Swain had a pretty reasonable response to Kiffin's comments on their radio show. It was more or less "we know, Lane." He explained that everyone knew what Kiffin was talking about, but wasn't something new and unless Kiffin had some idea of how to fix it, he didn't see the point of him bringing it up like he did at SEC Media Days.
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Swain's take was stupid. Kiffin is not supposed to bring up the topic that's the elephant in the room? Out-of-control commericialism cum conference expansion that just led to the implosion of a proud more than 100-year old conference? The basic demise of all the conferences? Player bribery under the guise of NIL? The chaotic, anything goes transfer portal? The whole sport is being turned on its head and Swain suggests that it shouldn't be talked about? Completely stupid. Swain's comment is really indicative of what lame a$$ses all the college football radio guys are---all the pundits who follow college football. They're not smart enough to think about, or care about, the larger ramifications of all of this nonsense. They just want to be Joe Sixpack and watch football: "Hey, everybody, two weeks before the start of the season. I'm excited. Who do we think will be in the playoffs?" Please....
 
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onevol74 said:
This exactly!!!
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Kiffin and the coaches ARE employees. They're in the real world. They're entitled to be mercenaries, if they wish. The players are not. They're students---or supposed to be. That's a major distinction lost on many who've forgotten the "college"/"student" part of college football and student-athlete. Maybe because so many of the fans didn't go to college.
 
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turbovol said:
Kiffin and the coaches ARE employees. They're in the real world. They're entitled to be mercenaries, if they wish. The players are not. They're students---or supposed to be. That's a major distinction lost on many who've forgotten the "college"/"student" part of college football and student-athlete. Maybe because so many of the fans didn't go to college.
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Please. Anybody paying attention the last two years knows that the players are now mercenaries and nothing more.The term “student-athlete” for football and men’s basketball has gone the way of the dodo and it ain’t coming back. I don’t care for the situation but it is what it is. Anybody that thinks otherwise is woefully naive. The sooner you come to terms with it, the better off you’ll be.
 
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turbovol said:
Swain's take was stupid. Kiffin is not supposed to bring up the topic that's the elephant in the room? Out-of-control commericialism cum conference expansion that just led to the implosion of a proud more than 100-year old conference? The basic demise of all the conferences? Player bribery under the guise of NIL? The chaotic, anything goes transfer portal? The whole sport is being turned on its head and Swain suggests that it shouldn't be talked about? Completely stupid. Swain's comment is really indicative of what lame a$$ses all the college football radio guys are---all the pundits who follow college football. They're not smart enough to think about, or care about, the larger ramifications of all of this nonsense. They just want to be Joe Sixpack and watch football: "Hey, everybody, two weeks before the start of the season. I'm excited. Who do we think will be in the playoffs?" Please....
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Yeah!!! And what's up with this emphasis on the forward pass? General Neyland liked to run almost exclusively and he was successful!!!!

When are we going back to just running?
 
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Here's a theory someone just dropped. Kiffin is intentionally making a recruiting appeal to mercenaries who want money but don't care about Ole Miss or team culture to play for him at Ole Miss.

In other words, he's not criticizing, he's advertising. 😂
 
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Does Ole Miss compete well in the NIL arms race? If not, his statement makes perfect sense.

And saying a scholarship is adequate compensation for a NFL calibre player, is basically "capitalism is the way to go for universities and conferences, but not players."
That attitude is in the dustbin of history. Move on. CFB already has.
The side deals are now done in public. It is better than before. Recruiting was never as clean as most imagine it was.
Orange. said:
Here's a theory someone just dropped. Kiffin is intentionally making a recruiting appeal to mercenaries who want money but don't care about Ole Miss or team culture to play for him at Ole Miss.

In other words, he's not criticizing, he's advertising. 😂
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stolitonic said:
I would hope that by this point, even the Kiff fanboys have accepted that we are in much better shape with Heupel and Co than we would have ever seen with Lane and his traveling circus.

While Heupel is not the most exciting guy in the world as a public speaker, he's calm/professional and seems to have mastered at least conversational English. That alone puts him above our last guy lol.
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Frankly, I absolutely love that Heupel isn’t the media hound Saban, Kiffin & Jimbo are. They talk all the time about **** they know little about
 
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turbovol said:
Kiffin and the coaches ARE employees. They're in the real world. They're entitled to be mercenaries, if they wish. The players are not. They're students---or supposed to be. That's a major distinction lost on many who've forgotten the "college"/"student" part of college football and student-athlete. Maybe because so many of the fans didn't go to college.
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ugh, college kids change their major and universities a lot too. especially if one is offering financial incentives.

again, NIL is making the student athletes more like other students than they were before.
 
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turbovol said:
Kiffin and the coaches ARE employees. They're in the real world. They're entitled to be mercenaries, if they wish. The players are not. They're students---or supposed to be. That's a major distinction lost on many who've forgotten the "college"/"student" part of college football and student-athlete. Maybe because so many of the fans didn't go to college.
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Are you suggesting the athletes are the problem?

If not, please clarify.
 
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