I will never understand why people are against players getting paid in college and the NFL.
Yes, 8-900 out of 1000 are never heard from in any meaningful football way. We as fans who follow the portal may know where a fair amount of the go. We never heard of the 550or most of the 450. We think we know of a lot because 100 players is a lot (maybe between 100 and 200 in a given year). It's relative, 200 is a small percentage of the guys who enter.
This is absolutely correct. Huge number weren't or should not ha e been on scholarship.
Math isn't my strong suit, but Isn't 90 of 1000 actually 9 percent, not .09 percent? Still a low number.
I play horses, okay? It's a sport dominated by decimals and fractions. For example:
I assumed you knew what you meant. I read it differently but figured you knew. Without the word percent it was correct so I read it that way.
It is still in place
No issue with being paid. But the current just “up and leave” system is unsustainable and ruining the game. Put em under 2-4 year contracts just like the NFL.
I’m not talking about portal entries. I’m talking about players who you want to process but won’t or don’t want to enter the portal.
Their scholarships will be honored
Who are the players that you want to process that meet the following criteria?
Congress said that can't happen so definitely not going back to that.
They can’t be on athletic scholarships then. So they do fall under the B1G’s rules. I know there’s a ton of non-athletic academic scholarships available but not all of the kids you want to process are going to qualify for those IF they want to stay at a B1G school. I don’t know that many kids are willing to stick out when they’re told they’ll either only get scout team reps or won’t even suit for practice but I sure as hell wouldn’t voluntarily give up a free major college degree to transfer to Doane so I could play.
why not?
There have been suggestions of those kinds of guys in earlier threads. I don’t keep track of the progress of scout team guys and I have no idea who Rhule might want to process. I’m just curious how a B1G team would be able to do it given the rule. You know the situation is possible to arise when you’re talking about bringing in 20 freshmen and 15 transfers.
Seems unlikely but you may be right. Just curiosity on my part.
Agree Unless the HC or your position coach moves on or gets fired. They have given the players to much power. You can’t let the prisoners run the prison as an example.
If you are referring to starters going into the portal there are a number of factors, but without a doubt the biggest one is the NIL system. It is essentially forcing guys to enter the portal to get paid more. If you don't declare, say you want to stay, why would a collective go out of their way to give you a bump in pay? They may throw a little more your way, but no one is going to give more than they think they need to when there are plenty of other players they want to allocate funds to.
The reason all of the old rules failed is because they were illegal under basic American concepts of labor and anti-trust laws. It's amazing it lasted as long as it did. There's no way for Congress to legislate a fix for this situation. Players, schools and conferences will have to agree to a set of rules and until they do its going to be the wild west.
I still fail to see how they are workers that would fall under labor or anti-trust laws. They're representatives of an athletic team under purview of a university, and that's all they are. They never were laborers that would fall under these laws. What's next, high school athletes? Junior high? Peewee league? Where does it stop?
That may not be completely settled, but the NCAA has lost every time any version of that argument has been litigated. How can they not be employees? The schools make huge money, they profit off the athletes' work, the "compensation" (scholarships) is not equitable under the circumstances (billions being made), and the supervisors (coaches) determine exactly how and when the athletes perform their work. You can look at a zebra and say it's a giraffe, but it's still a zebra. I could be wrong, maybe Congress can legislate around this somehow, but it doesn't seem possible to me.
You were implying that the portal entries were the fault of Nebraska leadership. I would say that Nebraska is getting portal entries for similar reasons as everyone else. Kids expecting more money, more playing time or kids being chased off.
Nothing an athlete does falls under the purview of being an employee imo. I conducted research at the University and was given grant funding, even had relatively standard, full time hours, and yet I was never considered an employee of the university. Student-athletes have even less of a case.
Kong loves to spin everything into the idea something is very unusual going on
Hate to say it but none of these kids know what a Corvette is. More plausible if you say…
