I've started leaning that direction. It's capitalism reality learned early. Maybe some will become known for doing good things.
@hoosier-clarion Coaching probably got easier at schools like IU. You don't really need to pound the pavement I'd imagine. A simple text: $2.2 mil get it done? Welcome aboard!!! Looking forward to meeting you! Whereas G levels must be hell along with P4 short on resources
@hoosier-clarion Coaching probably got easier at schools like IU. You don't really need to pound the pavement I'd imagine. A simple text: $2.2 mil get it done? Welcome aboard!!! Looking forward to meeting you! Whereas G levels must be hell along with P4 short on resources
It's the high school kids that are getting the short end of the deal. It's amazing how the portal has changed recruiting at the highest levels and how that's flowed downward through the ranks of the lower level programs.
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@hooky 100 percent re high school kids. Maybe the way this ultimately shakes out is the G and poor P4 end up a farm system for the P4 with money. High school kids get recruited by the MAC, play two years, with everyone's goal of getting offered their junior year an NIL opp at a P4. Who knows. What I do know is that some of the non revenue sports are looking at implementing age limits. 5 to play 4 etc. That would change things too if it found its way to football and basketball
@hooky 100 percent re high school kids. Maybe the way this ultimately shakes out is the G and poor P4 end up a farm system for the P4 with money. High school kids get recruited by the MAC, play two years, with everyone's goal of getting offered their junior year an NIL opp at a P4. Who knows. What I do know is that some of the non revenue sports are looking at implementing age limits. 5 to play 4 etc. That would change things too if it found its way to football and basketball
5 to play 4 made so much sense and then the Covid exception grant blew that up with all the special one offs making it even worse. I don't have an issue with someone's age, but at some point they have to limit the number of years you can be on a roster, deny the ability to play if you've previously accepted money to play professionally, and stop the unlimited transfers.
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@hooky Agreed. Or allow one free transfer then you go back to the old days and sit for a year.
I still keep remembering that the courts struck down transfer regulations that didn't apply to the rest of the student body, say a music student. So it seems like it takes an act of congress.
Seems like also could solve it with the players being employees. Then collective bargaining might set the rules. But the schools don't want that.
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