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rocktopper16 said:
We didn’t lose him. He’s not officially in the portal. He wants a restructured contract going forward. He requested papers, that’s all.

It’s a huge problem for every school having to recruit players you already recruited or developing players just for them to transfer.
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I hate all this but can you blame MM?
He's about the last man standing in the wr room.
Sounds like he's got the upper hand.
 
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DonDiego said:
Got it... adapt or die...thanks Brad. I too watched Moneyball. On the other hand, I expect some changes and controls will come about. Society can operate in chaos for only so long.
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Control, limits and tampering rules will have to be a part of this. If not, it’s nothing more than the Wild West where the gun slingers have the cash.
 
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barknoxbrawler said:
Control, limits and tampering rules will have to be a part of this. If not, it’s nothing more than the Wild West where the gun slingers have the cash.
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Tampering is going to be very hard to prove, as I'm sure communication between the players and other interested parties are several layers deep. That's why regulations won't really fix this because no matter what rules are put in place, programs are very good at finding ways to circumvent them.

The only way to "fix" this is to completely burn the current system to the ground and do the following...

1. Appoint a CF commissioner.

2. Drop the academic facade and declare players no longer as "student" athletes but contract employees of the university.

3. Decree that all players have 5 years to play 4 and players must sign 4 year contracts, with the university having the option to pick up a 5th. This will eliminate the transfer portal nonsense. If players want to leave for the NFL after 3 years, the team that signs them has to agree to pick up the tab for their 4th year. If they refuse, the player must either return for their 4th season, or sit out.

4. Eliminate early signing day and restore it back to early February, like it was before.

5. Enforce a spending hard cap among all universities for NIL.

6. Each program can have a total of 85 players on the team, 70 on the official roster and 15 on the practice squad. This is plenty! If the NFL can function with a 53 man roster and 17 on their practice squad, college teams can function at 70/15.
 
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Not going to pay much attention to recruiting and class rankings moving forward because it really doesn’t matter much does it? The class you bring in will probably look a lot different every year with the revolving door of the portal. Why get excited about a 5* player that might not see the field much then get lured away with a big paycheck from another school. And we will do the same with other players in the portal.
 
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Personally, I’m a bit torn on this topic.

The reasons why players should be able to make money off themselves are well documented. This transfer business is a bit more complicated.

On one hand, the fact that coaches can up and leave whenever they want, running out on contracts via buyouts for “better deals” supports players being able to do the same. Remember when Lane Kiffin left for his “dream job?” Remember when only an inability to get the right $ amount agreed upon kept Rick Barnes from leaving for UCLA? Now, players can look for something better or follow the coach that recruited them in the first place.

On the other hand, all this “negotiating a new deal” stuff kinda reminds me of the mess that the NBA has become. In the NBA, it has become so player-centric that teams are just about meaningless anymore. There are no big, ugly rivalries anymore like those heated Bulls-Knicks or Celtics- Lakers match-ups from the 80s, 90s, early 2000s. All anyone who still watches the League cares about are individual players. The NBA has become a display window for a bunch of narcissistic B.S. It’s made me completely lose interest in the League.

The backbreaker for me was when Kyrie Irvin said in the press that it didn’t matter who the Brooklyn Nets hired as their GM (or coach) because he and KD were the real GMs of the Brooklyn Nets — The clear message being that the star players would call the shots. And the Brooklyn Nets “super team” fell apart in dramatic fashion not long after that. There was a time when the team front offices had too much power over the players. Now it’s too far in the other direction.

College Football’s strength has always been the fans’ devotion to their team (school). Does this get to the point where that starts to die a bit? The mercenary mentality could lead to that . . . College basketball negotiated a little of this type of thing with “one and done” players, I think, as the programs tried to figure out a balance between developing players and partaking of the flashy talent that was bound for the pros after one year. It seems like (maybe) there’s some lesson(s) to be learned in there somewhere.

In any case, this is the reality in which we currently live as fans. Tennessee has adapted pretty well up to this point, so I’ll remain optimistic. Our AD is pretty good and forward-looking. I hope that college football as a whole can find a way to do so without losing what made it so great in the first place.
 
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I feel like the issue is the University of Tennessee. They are not forking up the $$$ and the coaching on offense sucked this year with the very poor play calling. I was at a party last night and everyone was talking about it. Why no quick slant and out passes?

If we don't get a new Offensive Corner and pay out in NIL, we are going back to our 2010-2020 run.

I am sick of the University of Tennessee constantly letting the fans down with its idiocy. They need to be more like the school in Athens or Tuscaloosa.
 
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ATLVols said:
Wow! Hopefully we can work something out with him.

On another note: The portal has a few elite WRs but lots of mid range guys. Zachariah Branch and Concepcion from NC State would be great.

I really like WR Kojo Antwi as well from Ohio State. He was a top 200 athlete out of HS but has been buried on their talented depth chart. I worked with his Georgia HS team some and saw that he is special with the ball in his hands.
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Doesn’t matter if we can’t get the ball to them.
 
#45
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I don’t think the portal is closed for Tennessee. The portal closed December 28, but those players whose teams played in the playoff or bowls get an additional five days. So it may not close for UT players until January 2
 
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I’m stumped. He was very underutilized, but with all of our receivers jumping ship all I could think was how happy he probably was that he was about to be next man up. He’s essentially guaranteed to be one of the go to men now and he does this? I think CJH has a problem that we don’t know about behind the scenes. We are never prepared, players never look like they want to be on the field, now all of this. Something smells fishy.
 
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wesleydmartin said:
Assimilate, evolve or go the way of the dodo bird friend...this ain't going anywhere...
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I think it is going somewhere and that is the formation of one Super Conference of 30 to 50 teams with the remainder of colleges reverting to the prior model of a free education for athletic participation. I just can’t see the majority of schools continually paying these astronomical sums of money year after year to purchase a team.
 
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