Tyler Baron has entered the portal

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Not sure how long schools can deal with this. Its a rotating door portals, it's really ridiculous. No reason to keep up with recruiting or anything. You just go to the game and sees who's playing that week
 
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Daniel_Lincolns_Foot said:
2 sacks and 4 tackles for loss in SEC play. Fine season. Certainly not great by any means.

Point is, he’s not some game changer that is worth throwing a bigger bag at.
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You’re off the mark. He is good enough to be doubled by most of our competitors, and still managed 27 pressures. He’s a high caliber SEC DL. He will be missed. Rodney has some principles about compensation for his players and he doesn’t like certain players being rewarded more than others. Last year when Baron wanted to look, Garner told him best wishes. He came back. This year, my guess is that the grass will be greener and he’ll get paid. He also may go pro or may come back. His draft grade is right on the edge of go/stay.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
What started the issue was schools signing huge media contracts and NCAA football becoming a nationwide entity. That paved the way for the video games to even begin to make money.

And who sued to get those rights? Those "entitled" schools sued the NCAA and then big money came into the sport.

But sure, it was the players, not the schools.

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1984 Supreme Court verdict 'released the tiger' in college athletics

Two key figures in the 1984 Supreme Court verdict, Chuck Neinas and Andrew Coats, reflect on how it "released the tiger" in college sports.
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First you blame the game, then the schools. I guess anything to keep from admitting the truth, and pushing your agenda
 
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Butch s said:
First you blame the game, then the schools. I guess anything to keep from admitting the truth, and pushing your agenda
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You brought up the video game, not me. The truth is the schools were greedy and wanted big TV money.

With that money, the game became a huge business and success demanded better players, which the schools paid for via boosters for decades prior to NIL.

It WAS the money that corrupted the sport but it was the schools who were and still are greedy and created the current mess.
 
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JRich said:
Probably tired of being held on every play in this league.
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Baron really needed to move on from that rip move. He was never going to get a flag trying that technique. Unless he could get past his man, the only thing it did was give OL a free pass on keeping the hold on him.
 
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Somebody has gotten Baron’s attention. Welcome to College Football 2024. It really is all about the $$$ and tampering now. Loyalty has gone the way of the Dodo Bird. This is just like the NFL. You won’t know what your roster is going to look like until the week before the first game. Might as well forget watching players for four years. Don’t know how coaches can function now when you have to recruit high schoolers, portal transfers and re-recruit existing players to stay. It is absolutely off the rails.

Bowl games? Might as well forget those. We may be down to the scout team by the time the Citrus Bowl rolls around. Unless they change their mind, we lost two defensive starters today. Said it last year and I’ll say it again. Bowl games are a nice diversion but the results mean little to nothing anymore.
 
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DaddyChad said:
Going to waste my time explaining this only to have people complain anyways. Some of these upperclassmen see these freshman coming in and making stellar money via NIL. They want their fair compensation as well and honestly that’s somewhat understandable.

It’s like if you’ve been at a job for a while, you’re doing a great job and bc of it your company is successful. Well the new hire that you’re training makes more money than you do. Would you be a little salty about that? Same deal with these kids.
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And their less productive peers entering the free market (portal) and making a nice pay day.
 
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Wonder if he is testing the waters to what NIL deals are out there before making a decision to go pro? Seems weird given he was virtually guaranteed a starting spot here. He's probably a 3rd round pick at best this year. So maybe he was looking for 3rd round pick money to come back.
 
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GAVol said:
I really do get people not liking it. It’s a huge change in who has the cards. But you’d better embrace the chaos because it’s definitely not going away.
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Most already know what the drill is. If there are no limits though, it truly now is another version of the NFL. It is what it is I guess.
 
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Carp said:
Wonder if he is testing the waters to what NIL deals are out there before making a decision to go pro? Seems weird given he was virtually guaranteed a starting spot here. He's probably a 3rd round pick at best this year. So maybe he was looking for 3rd round pick money to come back.
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$$$’s Carp. More $$$’s
 
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VOLfrombama said:
They had to make some room with all the COVID seniors coming back. They will only take 3-4 from the portal at most so they can keep that number at 82.

I'm not saying they told Baron to walk, but most of the folks that left were likely told they would be losing snaps
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Don’t think they told Baron to walk and we shall see who we get. We lost a 5 star tackle to friggin Colorado and a blow hard coach. That’s the one that really hurt. Can you say Colorado??
 
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Score50 said:
Don’t think they told Baron to walk and we shall see who we get. We lost a 5 star tackle to friggin Colorado and a blow hard coach. That’s the one that really hurt. Can you say Colorado??
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He’s definitely my 2nd least favorite coach on the planet
 
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Welcome to the new age. I hope some of you jerks on Twitter don't go running your mouth. Let him negotiate for more money and if we hit the mark, good for him and us.

This is college football. Starting QBs at P5 programs are entering the portal. It has little to do with Tennessee and everything to do with getting your worth.
 
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Delmar said:
Most already know what the drill is. If there are no limits though, it truly now is another version of the NFL. It is what it is I guess.
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It is what it is made into. It is never random. Somebody is driving this car that is about to crash. It isn't stationary.
 
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