OT: Transfer Portal

[onemizzou]

We are truly in an unprecedented time. Kids are transferring to maximize their college earning potential. If they are not getting playing time, they leave to find a spot they can be on field to showcase their talents and open them up for a future payday. Others are just moving from A to B for a higher paycheck. As Saban mentioned last week, we will get to a point where you rebuild rosters annually. His analogy was like the NFL only having 1 year contracts. This is what college has become. ESPN estimated that only 20% of college football players are actually picking a school based on the education. So of the 60 man roster, only 12 are there because that school is the one that offers them the education they desire. Let that sink in for a moment.

You have the situation sussed correctly. This is an unsustainable business model. NCAA must take corrective measures preferablfy sooner than later.

One big measure Id love to see the NCAA take is allowing schools to offer NIL or Scholarships, but not both.

If a player accepts the scholarship he reaps all the benefits of a student athlete at that university. If they choose to accept NIL money at any point they pay for everything listed below.

However, if a guy takes NIL money he’s excluded from scholarships and pays his own tuition, room and board, meal plan, pays for travel expenses (flight, meals, hotel) and pays a training/nutrition staff, assistant, and uniform fee.

Make NIL hurt, and maybe you’ll rein it in. Because if a guy is getting $500k and has to pay a $65,000 out of state tuition and other miscellaneous expenses that normal collegians pay, maybe he’ll consider the scholarship route.


I’d also cut the number of scholarships at a school to around 50. That’s enough to fill a depth chart with players who want to be there. This frees up university money for non athlete students who need really need it.

There is a model that is being talked about (and some being trialed), where schools simply sell off the athletic department and there is a clean divorce between school and athletics. The Big10 have discussed it and instead wanted to just sell the rights to their athletic programs to private equity, but sill maintain some level of control. They found a lower tier PE firm willing to do it, but larger PE firms will want control. Michigan and USC blocked it because they know they are one of the few Big10 schools that have the funds needed in the short term and do not need to sell out their future to PE. Utah made the move on a temporary basis and they maintained control but again a lower tier PE (see below). We are in an era that is not sustainable and even major conferences like Big10 realize it and know they have a 1-3yr window to get help. Only 40% of college sports operated in the black in 2023 and this is before allowing them to spend $20M on players. Many schools know this is a figure they can not support long term.

This is funny because I said a couple years ago when NIL came about that the athletic departments would eventually separate from the universities and basically be owned by apparel and sports drink companies. This is only slightly different from that but along the same lines.

[mdkieffer]

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I just wonder what Mizzou could’ve done with that money that they sank into the far end zone. New computers? Better academic professors/offerings? What could they have done with it that’s better than what they did with it

You do understand, don't you, that contributions to the Athletic Department are unrelated to the costs of supporting the University's academic mission?

My argument is that if mid major schools like Mizzou didn’t fund a football program that they can’t afford to compete in in this new age of football, perhaps those donations would’ve went somewhere more beneficial than the south end one

Mizzou is a mid major school? I learn something every day.

[Rollin' on the River]

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I just wonder what Mizzou could’ve done with that money that they sank into the far end zone. New computers? Better academic professors/offerings? What could they have done with it that’s better than what they did with it

You do understand, don't you, that contributions to the Athletic Department are unrelated to the costs of supporting the University's academic mission?

My argument is that if mid major schools like Mizzou didn’t fund a football program that they can’t afford to compete in in this new age of football, perhaps those donations would’ve went somewhere more beneficial than the south end one

Mizzou is a mid major school? I learn something every day.

I mean you don’t seriously consider them in the upper echelon of Championship schools do you?

[winonsports]

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I just wonder what Mizzou could’ve done with that money that they sank into the far end zone. New computers? Better academic professors/offerings? What could they have done with it that’s better than what they did with it

You do understand, don't you, that contributions to the Athletic Department are unrelated to the costs of supporting the University's academic mission?

He doesn't want to understand.

He wants to attack Mizzou