Simple fixes for the transfer portal

[zjcvols]

Even I agree the transfer portal is a little out of control, I’ve determined that I think there is a set of rules we can implement.

- You can only have 5 players transfer in that are immediately eligible.

- If you are a new coach, you are allowed to have 10 players transfer in that are immediately eligible.

- If you’re a player and your head coach is fired, you do not count against the 5 or 10 rule.

- FCS transfers do not count against the 5 or 10 rule

- Everyone gets 25 freshman or JUCO newcomers each year. 30 for new coaches. No carryover, no extra. 25 non transfer newcomers.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Even I agree the transfer portal is a little out of control, I’ve determined that I think there is a set of rules we can implement.

- You can only have 5 players transfer in that are immediately eligible.

- If you are a new coach, you are allowed to have 10 players transfer in that are immediately eligible.

- If you’re a player and your head coach is fired, you do not count against the 5 or 10 rule.

- FCS transfers do not count against the 5 or 10 rule

- Everyone gets 25 freshman or JUCO newcomers each year. 30 for new coaches. No carryover, no extra. 25 non transfer newcomers.

The 6th guy will sue to play immediately.

 

[Remy]

Leave it like it is or make it even more flexible for the players. I like the idea a new coach like Coach Prime can come in and dismiss almost the whole team and put a solid product on the field the first year. Any player that becomes unhappy, let them go elsewhere. It puts the emphasis on the institutions and coaching staffs to do better concerning players and removes programs that were doing a form of stock piling tslent like Bama was notoriously doing using blue shirts etc. There's very few kids going to sit down years at a school to play only a year or so when they can start elsewhere and play immediately.

 

[Go aeiou]

free country, so no limit.
Sadly most of the best players will end up at a handfull of schools.
OTOH, Colorado should have to honor schollys as long as athl did not quit, and is/was making progress towards a degree.

 

[jp1]

Leave it like it is or make it even more flexible for the players. I like the idea a new coach like Coach Prime can come in and dismiss almost the whole team and put a solid product on the field the first year. Any player that becomes unhappy, let them go elsewhere. It puts the emphasis on the institutions and coaching staffs to do better concerning players and removes programs that were doing a form of stock piling tslent like Bama was notoriously doing using blue shirts etc. There's very few kids going to sit down years at a school to play only a year or so when they can start elsewhere and play immediately.

Coach Sanders likely dismissed several kids that didn't necessarily want to leave. There are more options out there than the player wasn't happy so he left.

 

[butchna]

Too many working parts…won’t work.

 

[BlinghamptonVol]

free country, so no limit.
Sadly most of the best players will end up at a handfull of schools.
OTOH, Colorado should have to honor schollys as long as athl did not quit, and is/was making progress towards a degree.

I read that CU players dismissed from the team could remain at CU on scholarship as regular students if they chose to. I think 1 or 2 did that.

 

[CAVPUT]

No changes until we take at least half a dozen OL for next season. Gotta build a much stronger wall in front of Nico.

 

[stolitonic]

Wait, some of your "rules" don't make sense.

You're allowing unlimited players to transfer out/in if a coach is fired?

At the same time, you're allowing a school to have more players immediately eligible if they have a new coach?

No offense intended, but will that all not combine to just leave things as screwed up and destabilized as they are now?

Teams will be firing coaches who go 8-4 or something just to be able to basically revamp their team and try to do a Colorado overnight.

You also don't touch schools whose coaches bolt for other schools.

I would think that to make things more sane-a rule needs to be added that a HCs new school can accept NO transfers from his old school. What Lincoln Riley and Deion did last year really makes me sick honestly. Basically run away for more glory and strip their old schools of assets. No different than what Kiff tried to do here when he bolted for USC. Classless.

Also recommend that the "freebie" one time transfer can only be used during the first two calendar years after beginning enrollment. You made a mistake in believing in a coach who is a joker and find yourself stuck in a bad situation and know within 6 months you screwed up. OK, use your magic bullet-but choose wisely. Any player transferring at any point after two academic years gets to sit a year period. No more freebie transfers then.

Most-if not all brick and mortar colleges require you to take two academic years of credits to graduate with a degree. Only "schools" I know that are relaxed about that are the for profits of the world. No offense to anyone with a degree from one of those places but...............

In the end, players are going to be far better served by keeping the "student" a key component in the "student athlete" equation. If they are just transferring in for a year to play football with no hopes of getting a degree? Child please.

 

[OrangeEtBlanc]

I, personally, don’t see what’s wrong with the transfer portal or NIL. Regular students are able to transfer as they wish, regular students are able to profit from their own Name, Image, and Likeness if they can—why can’t student-athletes? The NCAA placed undue burden on student-athletes and both the transfer portal and NIL are rectifying that, as well as leveling the playing field from those who were best at doing things under the table. No longer can a coach stockpile talent while promising things to recruits he had no intention of fulfilling. The NCAA changed the rules on 2-time transfers, and I don’t even agree with that.

Does it hurt smaller programs? To an extent, but the only difference is that such “free agency” is now out in the open instead of more clandestine. It also allows smaller programs to attract good players from the top teams who are dissatisfied, as well, and grant immediate opportunity.

The transfer portal and NIL are good things, but the unionization and “employee” status would be disastrous, in my opinion. The TP & NIL help prevent that, at least for a while.