@@SCSAsJorts I don't mind the portal too much because even when guys like Quinshon Judkins or Caleb Downs transfer to powerhouse programs like Ohio St, it still doesn't make them this super team that people believe them be. If we ever get to that point where all the best players are doing that silly NBA stuff to form a 'super team' then I'll definitely have more issue with the portal. But usually it's always less than 50 high quality starters leaving power programs. My biggest issue is too many bowl games. And hopefully they don't expand this playoff any further. The 6 win rule came into effect when there was an 11 game schedule, so you HAD to have a winning record to be in a bowl game. Now, there are so many bowls that teams with losing records at 5-7 or 6-6 teams are needed to fill the bowls and we are not watching all of these bowl games in high numbers. I'd like to see 8 wins be the mark for bowl qualification. That'll make the game more competitive which will be best for the sport. Other than that, I think the fake NIL payments are more dangerous to the sport than the portal. True NIL should be allowed and players should be able to capitalize off their name, image, or likeness as much as possible. However, calling booster's collectives NIL payments should stop. That's just simply pay for play and everyone should call it that. The collectives and revenue sharing should be capped in my opinion but true NIL aka endorsement deals should not be capped.
As an Arkansas fan I have no interest in watching our bowl game. So many players have entered the transfer portal that what I will see is a shell of our mediocre team. I'm sure there are several such cases, and I ask myself what the goal of the season was. Because the team that will show up to the Liberty Bowl is not the team that made it to the Liberty Bowl.
@@SeanornottobeSean and the other problem is the schedule simple solution start the football season a month early. You and me should be on the board we can make college football watchable. Unlike the bald guy who complains and offers nothing and just complains.
NIL and the transfer portal have basically made college football no longer a college sport but a semi-pro game. It is now all about what college is going to guarantee the most money and prizes whether or not a player chooses that school. Saban saw this coming and, sadly, left college football.
The fact you think it wasn’t a semi pro game before just shows how ppl who they know stuff are just sheep’s taking their views from the millionaires making decisions
In regard to the portal in January. The title game needs to end by January 1st. They can bump up the season by a week or so to start the week or 2 before Labor Day. That way the portal can open the day afterwards and it gives kids enough time so they can still be enrolled for winter classes.
My team will never compete for a national title. I consider Mississippi State the developmental league in today’s football era. We sign a bunch of three stars train them up and the NIL managers go get them some money and off they go. Maybe we should have a developmental league with their own National Title game, hmmm? 🤔
@@evenodd3339 They need to disband the NCAA and create a new professional league with rules and regulations set. This is what we are now. We just have no power to do anything because the courts have ousted the NCAA.
Born in Oregon I've always thought it would be neat to see a team from the state win a NC. Really hope UO can do it this year, then I can just check out of CFB for good. The volume of commercials is probably the biggest detractor to me at this point. Cost to watch, let alone attend is another major factor. And mercenary coaches and players don't help.
NIL lets the rich schools buy the players they want, so the monied folks will fight hard to keep it unchanged. The college coaches need to rebel against the current formulation of the transfer portal because of the damage it does to their programs. Your example of the backup QB transfer of a team heading to the CFP is an excellent example of that damage.
The NFL would have this fixed in a couple of days....they'd never allow this kind of chaos to begin with, but if it ever creeped in, it would be fixed within hours.
Well the courts didn't come into the NFL and turn them upside down and force their hand into something they were not prepared for. And even now, if the NCAA does anything restrictive at all someone greedy lil POS is going to sue them and get their way. The NCAA was fine before, others made them change into this.
Realign the conferences to geographic location.why is a team in Dallas Texas in the ACC? Look at the map ,why is Oklahoma,Texas, Texas A&M,and Missouri in the SEC,and so on
I actually learned geography by watching college football and learning about the conferences. Well that's over. ACC stands for Atlantic Coast. SMU, Stanford, Cal, Pit, and Louisville do not.
The issue that everyone seems to be overlooking is that we are not talking about pro football, we are dealing with COLLEGE football. Football in this setting is secondary to the institutions of higher education that provide its platform. The COLLEGE semester ends in December and the spring semester begins in January. Any STUDENT that wishes to be able to attend MUST register, get accepted, and enroll prior to the COLLEGE'S enrollment deadline. This has NOTHING to do with football and EVERYTHING to do with COLLEGE. Football is a big moneymaker for many schools, but that comes in waaaay behind what the tuition costs brings in from students. As long as college athletes are students then the football programs will have to fall in line as despite the hubris they are NOT in the front of the pecking order.
What you're overlooking is college football IS pro football now. They didn't want to be. Which is exactly why the NCAA had all of those strict rules we used to gripe about. But then some greedy schmucks decided to take them to court and the courts forced the NCAA to become this. And now we are what we are.
This is no longer Name, Image, and Likeness. This is straight pay for play. There needs to be a cap and there needs to be stipulations or repercussions for overuse of the portal. Schools are getting clear competitive advantages.
NIL needs to be capped. Transfer Portal needs to be restricted. One free transfer and sit out a year if you want to transfer again. Opt-Outs of bowl games needs to be done away with. I'm done with College Football until changes are made. This is ridiculous.
the transfer at Penn state could haunt them if Drew gets hurt a freshman quarterback with no playing time in a big game wont work and thats my team and you are right Josh
NIL, the transfer portal and conference realignment has certainly "taken the shine off the apple" of college football. I may watch an occasional college football game if I don't have something else going on but, with only a few exceptions such as interservice military academy games, it's no longer "must see TV".
The assertion no one is considering not watching CFB at all is utter nonsense. Smaller colleges have been transformed into nothing more than feeder systems for big money programs, which is absolutely turning people away. Saying the product as a whole is in danger is an understatement.
Yep. I'm a fan of a big and successful program. But I'm scared of what could happen to the sport. I also went to a smaller school that I'm a fan of. They have no shot at all now. AND the money will stop flowing to them. I expect many of these programs to fall apart. I expect many of those fans to walk away. I've left other sports before like baseball due to the strikes in the 90s (fans throw dollar bills at them during games lol). Josh hit some big philosophical points in this video. People can walk away.
Transfer protal should be as follows one window opens at the end of Spring football. Only 1 free transfer a 2nd one with a one year penalty meaning sit for one year and no NIL. A 2nd or 3rd transfer will only be free if the coach was fired. This solves the portal issue and helps keep the portal in line with the summer programs for football.
Yeah, I think anti-competition legal issues, unless sign a contract or collective bargaining agreement. And a transfer window at end of season does make sense. If a player knows they're leaving, would be weird to hang around for several more months.
@jimsomerville3924 need to keep them enrolled and hopefully playing in the bowl game. they can transfer in the summer and still practice with new team for 2 months before season and school starts.
Sounds great. Too bad the NCAA won't be allowed to legally do this. The courts ruined that. They have to disband and create a new league with upfront rules.
Players leaving their teams in the middle of the playoffs is a huge problem. The winter transfer portal needs to be eliminated. Let players transfer in June.
If they're going to keep it at all, I agree with you completely. Having 2 unrestricted opportunities to leave during the course of a season, especially during the playoff, is ridiculous.
What’s unique about college football is the it is an opportunity for aging alumni to pretend that they’re still in college for 12 weekends in the fall. Very emotional and powerful.
The timing of all these things happening at once seems to do with the enrollment schedules of the majority of colleges. Oregon on quarter system which seems to fit better at least with transfer timing
Wait! What? Didn't Michigan go undefeated last year? Punch the winner of the SEC in the mouth? The beat up on the Pac 12 winner? Which one of the 4 teams that made the playoff last year would Florida State have beaten? That would be "zero" with the QB they had.
Players who enter the Portal and sign with a new team can still finish the year with their current team, but I haven't heard of any who choose to finish the season with their previous team. Saban said he asked the players, who enter the Portal and signed with another team, if they would finish the CFP with BAMA, but none of them elected to do so.
I use to watch a ton of college basketball, and over the past 4-5 years it was less and less, now it’s down to 0. Mostly because no one stays 4 years, and I don’t get to see players for my team get better and better each year.
Everyone hates the portal and NIL until their team makes the playoffs or wins a championship. I haven't a single person from the state of Indiana complain. Moreover, please understand that every team has built in fan base that have poured tens of thousands of dollars into their school and they want a winner yesterday. NIL is not a self created thing. People, really rich people, have driven this thing from the beginning. We don't know their names or reconzie their faces but it's always been them. Direct your anger accordingly. Show me a national champion and ask their fans how they feel about the portal and NIL.
I’m a HUGE Oregon Duck fan and I would acknowledge it’s out of control. But I’d also say we should acknowledge that a form of “NIL” has existed under the cover of darkness long before the authorized version: ESPECIALLY in the SEC! So, the problem is there is only one fix: a salary cap and a draft….
Facts! Anybody who has anything to do football and basketball over the last 50 years knows to be true. You ever wonder why schools in poorer or low population states have produced winners for so many years? @@marinz4life
Got to get some guardrails in place. For one, the Fall portal should probably close and the spring one be the only one. Just too much going on this time of year.
Quality of talent. Years of devotion to a team. Difference with those other leagues. Same as with college football. Literally family history in some cases with it. Football isn’t declining. If anything it’s expanding. Especially in college football.
Josh nails it. Transfer portal, N.I.L., conference expansion, etc. are ruining college football. Team loyalty is out the door. Agents, "journalists" & wannabes have taken over. Sad times indeed.
Robby Ashford also went into the portal despite wanting to play in the bowl game. you have to get in early if you're not one of the top guys everyone wants. He's a great kid, has been a great teammate all around but there is only 1 QB on the field and you can't be mad at kids that want to play. Just because you're behind people doesn't make you bad or not good enough to start anywhere else. He'll be missed
NIL should be endorsement based and the portal should, first one is free after that you sit a season when transferring!! The best players are at their universities on scholarship so they play well, build thier brand and get endorsements!!! Also 100% end pay for play and pouching other teams players!! FIXED!!!
Bowl games are meaningless now. With NIL and transfer portal, a bunch of players won’t be playing for their teams. So Bowl games are like a spring game scrimmage.
@Kyleterp1 you are a negative Nelly and you would never be a part of my team Ask the players at Georgia Tech, Colorado, Syracuse Unlv, give a break No way these teams lose money
It’s just a matter of time before your average working man and woman college football fan begin to resent the players. Once that happens, it’s over. I wonder how long it will take?
I'm looking forward to a future documentary exploring the rise of organized crime in college athletics. The lack of regulations around athlete representation, especially by agents, creates a space for major issues. It's a topic that needs serious attention.
8:05 The mess was made by university presidents. They aren’t weak minded, they have had their mind on money and still do. CFB provides a lot of funding to universities and the presidents that can have realigned with other universities to create conferences that benefit them. It’s always been about money, not for the players, for the schools.
Some of us don’t have the patience for this mess to be fixed we will just find something else to fill our time on Saturdays in the fall myself I am buying myself a new race car and returning to drag racing I do Not even want to hear a word about CFB I am so disappointed in what has happened it makes me sick .😮
16 Teams. NO Byes! Bama would beat Boise State, Arizona State, and SMU 4 out of 5 games. How much better would this year playoff be adding Bama, Miami, Ole Miss, and South Carolina?
Transfer portal needs to be FIXED!! I have only missed around 10 WVU home games since 1986. I use to know all the players down to the two deep. The last two years I didn’t see the point with the portal. I don’t even follow recruiting anymore. Why bother.
It has single handily killed the Washington State program, largest reason dickert chose to leave, he has to rebuild a roster every season and simply too much stress for a coach to have to go through every season
You said get someone in the room that can say no. How bout they get some Head Coaches and put them on staff and run all this through them. Nick Saben and Mac Brown can put there foot down and say the month of December is stupid for a Head Coaches schedule.
The same people and committees that threw cinder block rule book at kids and leveled program heads alike over the most inconsequential of compensation (arbitrarily handled btw, no 2 cases ever got the same punishments for the exact same “”crimes””) got told what they were doing was unconstitutional and instead of being adults, they just turned the knob all the way to the other end out of spite and let NIL and the portal run the way it does either out of spite or incompetence.
Agree, except that the constitution didn’t have anything to do with the state laws and court decisions that put us in this spot. The court cases were based on the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Huge college football fan.. don’t even watch NFL… the portal and NIL have become out of control and have already ruined the game.. only going to get worse
I used to be a diehard college fan. Got a couple of bachelor degrees from LSU. Grew up on the New Orleans West Bank. Still bleed purple and gold, but I've stopped watching the rest of college football. I admire the hell out of Garrett Nussmeier for sticking with LSU. He sat the bench and waited. So I'll watch LSU. But forget the rest of college football. Heck, I even miss the Pac-12 and the Rose Bowl where it was the Big-10 against the Pac-12. Whoever was responsible for the dissolution of the Pac-12 should be ...
Do you know what the biggest threat to college football is people that have watched college football their whole life and love the fact that they were amateurs and now they’re all a bunch of pros and it looks like I’m gonna stop watching cause if I wanna watch pro pro football is on Sunday
I really honestly only watch my team and dont care about the others. I only have limited time and if I am going to watch professional athletes, I would rather watch the nfl.
It's the minor leagues without any structure or stability. Crazy how after one the most exciting seasons ever, many fans are losing passion due to transfer portal moves. I know I am.
All I know is college football this year has been a blast. And despite all your "get off my lawn" rhetoric, it is wildly popular. Every game down the stretch this year mattered. And we talked about it non-stop. But for God's sake, fix the damn transfer portal. I go to watch a Bowl game and all of the players I tuned in to watch are gone!! The Playoffs won't kill the Bowls. The portal WILL!!
There is really no debate and it's been apparent for quite awhile that NIL and the Portal are a huge problem. I'm not sure why anyone would think it was a question. Add to that schools indirectly contacting players about portal transfer before the portal opens and you have a total mess. Also lets not even get started on the haves have nots when it comes to revenue. Yea it is all a cancer that could kill the sport as we know it unless something is done soon.
NIL isn’t the issue imo. I could care less about how much the players make. If that’s what the university/staff decides their worth then so be it. It’s the endless amounts of players leaving at any given time. There is no accountability. That’s the issue imo
It kills me to say this but college footballs best days are behind it If the right changes won’t be made and we don’t get leadership who knows what they are doing then it’s only gonna get worse College football is in trouble
I love it. There has never been more parity in College Football than what we have now. It is the wild wild west, true, but you can't deny it's made the game infinitely more competitive across the board.
I've been a supporter of college players making a little something for the billions of dollars they bring to the universities. I did not want the NIL or the portal though. I think the student athletes should be given a lump sum after college, much like a trust that matures after a few years. That way, they get monetary thanks and if they don't succeed at the next level, it's a bit for them to start their lives after football. The NIL in combination with the portal will be the death of the sport that I have loved for life. I really hope I am wrong.
NIL can be solved by 1 contracts that become voided if A you transfer B get bad Grades C. Do something that violates team and University policies. You are being paid you should act like it. NIL should be lumped in with revenue sharing too.
NIL and the portal is not the problem. A lack of leadership is. Right now college football is run by unregulated free market capitalism - which is not a good thing. Regulated free market capitalism is preferable. College football need leadership (and probably a new umbrella organization) to establish boundaries and rules and bylaws which brings the anarchy and chaos under control.
Having the most qualified leaders serve themselves rather than the greater good is exactly why we have the disastrous circumstances we experience in college football and, if I may, the rest of the country and world. The most capable among us do not bear their appropriate portion of responsibility.
TOO MANY NFL Games, seem to have an invisible hand on the score. I won't watch that b.s., and if college switch's to that Blue Beer kick off the pro's use now, I'm going to hockey ! (SCO 🦆's) !
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I haven’t walked away, but the excitement it used to give me has lowered a bit.
What would you attribute that to
@@TheJasonJackson84imo definitely transfer portal I think just currently right now 2000 players have entered the portal
@@SCSAsJorts I don't mind the portal too much because even when guys like Quinshon Judkins or Caleb Downs transfer to powerhouse programs like Ohio St, it still doesn't make them this super team that people believe them be. If we ever get to that point where all the best players are doing that silly NBA stuff to form a 'super team' then I'll definitely have more issue with the portal. But usually it's always less than 50 high quality starters leaving power programs.
My biggest issue is too many bowl games. And hopefully they don't expand this playoff any further. The 6 win rule came into effect when there was an 11 game schedule, so you HAD to have a winning record to be in a bowl game. Now, there are so many bowls that teams with losing records at 5-7 or 6-6 teams are needed to fill the bowls and we are not watching all of these bowl games in high numbers. I'd like to see 8 wins be the mark for bowl qualification. That'll make the game more competitive which will be best for the sport.
Other than that, I think the fake NIL payments are more dangerous to the sport than the portal. True NIL should be allowed and players should be able to capitalize off their name, image, or likeness as much as possible. However, calling booster's collectives NIL payments should stop. That's just simply pay for play and everyone should call it that. The collectives and revenue sharing should be capped in my opinion but true NIL aka endorsement deals should not be capped.
We want players and coaches that are loyal to the team we love.
As an Arkansas fan I have no interest in watching our bowl game. So many players have entered the transfer portal that what I will see is a shell of our mediocre team. I'm sure there are several such cases, and I ask myself what the goal of the season was. Because the team that will show up to the Liberty Bowl is not the team that made it to the Liberty Bowl.
If Michigan was playing anyone other than bama, I would be there with you. Even still we’re the same as you, a shell of a mediocre team
The goal was for the individual...getting to the NFL or getting paid big money from another university. It's a sad situation indeed.
@@Mmmmmk247 Well both our teams won. Guess it's not all that bad haha.
Set a cap on NIL and cap the times a player can use the Transfer Portal.
So easy
@@SeanornottobeSean and the other problem is the schedule simple solution start the football season a month early. You and me should be on the board we can make college football watchable. Unlike the bald guy who complains and offers nothing and just complains.
Lawyer time
ITS ILLEGAL TO PUT A CAP ON NIL also pretty anti American and anti capitalist to want a cap as well
@@FLA813BMO stop yelling
NIL and the transfer portal have basically made college football no longer a college sport but a semi-pro game. It is now all about what college is going to guarantee the most money and prizes whether or not a player chooses that school. Saban saw this coming and, sadly, left college football.
It’s the AAA league of the NFL.
Yea because they shouldn't be paid millions like the coaches. Because of love the times the coaches went out there and played for the team.
@@ctclardy also love how you and the other dude complains and no solutions imagine that.
The fact you think it wasn’t a semi pro game before just shows how ppl who they know stuff are just sheep’s taking their views from the millionaires making decisions
@@bambapro8329it's 20 times worse now.
In regard to the portal in January. The title game needs to end by January 1st. They can bump up the season by a week or so to start the week or 2 before Labor Day. That way the portal can open the day afterwards and it gives kids enough time so they can still be enrolled for winter classes.
The transfer portal sucks . They should have to sign a contract just like nfl players. Players can't change teams every year.
College football is definitely in danger
No, it’s not lol. All time profit, all time talent, all time freedom for players. Bask in it and enjoy it
@josecruz-torres1181 none of those things mean that the sport is healthy
@@BrianGlaze cope. we even got cfb 25 so whatever you say buddy
@@josecruz-torres1181 you're being weirdly combative for a relatively non combative post
@@josecruz-torres1181all making it go to shit. Nothing interesting about it.
My team will never compete for a national title. I consider Mississippi State the developmental league in today’s football era. We sign a bunch of three stars train them up and the NIL managers go get them some money and off they go. Maybe we should have a developmental league with their own National Title game, hmmm? 🤔
Exactly. How long will fans like you stick around?
Transfer Portal open while football is still being played is a complete joke. The playoff teams get punished in recruiting for being good.
Point nailed there... taking away the adhesive.... its not watching ball at the highest level, its something else. Great point and so true.
The nil/transfer 🐎💩 is ridiculous. Guys signing, then 2 weeks later wanting to leave. It’s a shit show.
It's funny as s*** until it happens to your team.
They need to bring out the nil contracts
@@go.gators “my team” hasn’t been affected. But Oregon has.
@@evenodd3339 yeah, this hiding of contracts is 🐎💩. They wanna be treated like pros and get paid? Then treat them like pros.
@@evenodd3339 They need to disband the NCAA and create a new professional league with rules and regulations set. This is what we are now. We just have no power to do anything because the courts have ousted the NCAA.
Born in Oregon I've always thought it would be neat to see a team from the state win a NC. Really hope UO can do it this year, then I can just check out of CFB for good. The volume of commercials is probably the biggest detractor to me at this point. Cost to watch, let alone attend is another major factor. And mercenary coaches and players don't help.
There are so many commercials it’s insane. Like they don’t stop. The worst thing about America
NIL lets the rich schools buy the players they want, so the monied folks will fight hard to keep it unchanged. The college coaches need to rebel against the current formulation of the transfer portal because of the damage it does to their programs. Your example of the backup QB transfer of a team heading to the CFP is an excellent example of that damage.
The NFL would have this fixed in a couple of days....they'd never allow this kind of chaos to begin with, but if it ever creeped in, it would be fixed within hours.
The NFL has a vested interest in creating parity. College football has no such illusion.
Well the courts didn't come into the NFL and turn them upside down and force their hand into something they were not prepared for. And even now, if the NCAA does anything restrictive at all someone greedy lil POS is going to sue them and get their way. The NCAA was fine before, others made them change into this.
Realign the conferences to geographic location.why is a team in Dallas Texas in the ACC? Look at the map ,why is Oklahoma,Texas, Texas A&M,and Missouri in the SEC,and so on
Oh yeah and put Notre Dame in a conference….it’s not about education it’s all about money…NIL…transfer portal…oh well rant over …
I actually learned geography by watching college football and learning about the conferences. Well that's over. ACC stands for Atlantic Coast. SMU, Stanford, Cal, Pit, and Louisville do not.
@@Getoutmyway-pr6djWe are all getting an education.
Culturally Texas fits in the SEC. Mizzou.... Not so much.
@EXOmakemeHorololo Facts. Isn't Missouri more like the Midwest?
The issue that everyone seems to be overlooking is that we are not talking about pro football, we are dealing with COLLEGE football. Football in this setting is secondary to the institutions of higher education that provide its platform. The COLLEGE semester ends in December and the spring semester begins in January. Any STUDENT that wishes to be able to attend MUST register, get accepted, and enroll prior to the COLLEGE'S enrollment deadline. This has NOTHING to do with football and EVERYTHING to do with COLLEGE. Football is a big moneymaker for many schools, but that comes in waaaay behind what the tuition costs brings in from students. As long as college athletes are students then the football programs will have to fall in line as despite the hubris they are NOT in the front of the pecking order.
What you're overlooking is college football IS pro football now. They didn't want to be. Which is exactly why the NCAA had all of those strict rules we used to gripe about. But then some greedy schmucks decided to take them to court and the courts forced the NCAA to become this. And now we are what we are.
This is no longer Name, Image, and Likeness. This is straight pay for play. There needs to be a cap and there needs to be stipulations or repercussions for overuse of the portal. Schools are getting clear competitive advantages.
I’m going to say I agree with you before the idiots who say “YoU tHiNk It WaSn’T pAy FoR pLaY bEfOrE???”
NIL needs to be capped. Transfer Portal needs to be restricted. One free transfer and sit out a year if you want to transfer again. Opt-Outs of bowl games needs to be done away with. I'm done with College Football until changes are made. This is ridiculous.
the transfer at Penn state could haunt them if Drew gets hurt a freshman quarterback with no playing time in a big game wont work and thats my team and you are right Josh
Penn State is an unbelievable 1-25 against AP Top 5 opponents since 2000. I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
11:14 As a Tennessee fan from Johnson City I feel very seen right now
I see you!!
NIL, the transfer portal and conference realignment has certainly "taken the shine off the apple" of college football. I may watch an occasional college football game if I don't have something else going on but, with only a few exceptions such as interservice military academy games, it's no longer "must see TV".
It was never a shiny apple it was a polished turd that the masses was happy consuming blindly
It's time. Make Saban commissioner.
The assertion no one is considering not watching CFB at all is utter nonsense. Smaller colleges have been transformed into nothing more than feeder systems for big money programs, which is absolutely turning people away. Saying the product as a whole is in danger is an understatement.
Yep. I'm a fan of a big and successful program. But I'm scared of what could happen to the sport. I also went to a smaller school that I'm a fan of. They have no shot at all now. AND the money will stop flowing to them. I expect many of these programs to fall apart. I expect many of those fans to walk away. I've left other sports before like baseball due to the strikes in the 90s (fans throw dollar bills at them during games lol). Josh hit some big philosophical points in this video. People can walk away.
Transfer protal should be as follows one window opens at the end of Spring football. Only 1 free transfer a 2nd one with a one year penalty meaning sit for one year and no NIL. A 2nd or 3rd transfer will only be free if the coach was fired. This solves the portal issue and helps keep the portal in line with the summer programs for football.
That creates another lawsuit the ncaa will very much lose.
May 20th to July 1st
Yeah, I think anti-competition legal issues, unless sign a contract or collective bargaining agreement. And a transfer window at end of season does make sense. If a player knows they're leaving, would be weird to hang around for several more months.
@jimsomerville3924 need to keep them enrolled and hopefully playing in the bowl game. they can transfer in the summer and still practice with new team for 2 months before season and school starts.
Sounds great. Too bad the NCAA won't be allowed to legally do this. The courts ruined that. They have to disband and create a new league with upfront rules.
Nobody would watch professional sports either if players could just jump from team to team every year. Guardrails are needed.
Players leaving their teams in the middle of the playoffs is a huge problem. The winter transfer portal needs to be eliminated. Let players transfer in June.
If they're going to keep it at all, I agree with you completely. Having 2 unrestricted opportunities to leave during the course of a season, especially during the playoff, is ridiculous.
What’s unique about college football is the it is an opportunity for aging alumni to pretend that they’re still in college for 12 weekends in the fall. Very emotional and powerful.
There is that. But there's also LOTS of non alumni that are fans too.
Set a cap on Coaches Salaries an how an how Coach can up jump an Leave a Team. For a job that pays more.
As a Texas fan this was brought up last year by us last season with Malik. It needs to be fixed quick
Spot on commentary!!
Thanks for the Johnson City shout out!
The timing of all these things happening at once seems to do with the enrollment schedules of the majority of colleges. Oregon on quarter system which seems to fit better at least with transfer timing
Josh. I watched no college football this year after last years playoff debacle. So we are out there.
Wait! What? Didn't Michigan go undefeated last year?
Punch the winner of the SEC in the mouth?
The beat up on the Pac 12 winner?
Which one of the 4 teams that made the playoff last year would Florida State have beaten?
That would be "zero" with the QB they had.
Players who enter the Portal and sign with a new team can still finish the year with their current team, but I haven't heard of any who choose to finish the season with their previous team.
Saban said he asked the players, who enter the Portal and signed with another team, if they would finish the CFP with BAMA, but none of them elected to do so.
I use to watch a ton of college basketball, and over the past 4-5 years it was less and less, now it’s down to 0. Mostly because no one stays 4 years, and I don’t get to see players for my team get better and better each year.
I'm a new fan of the show. Great articulation on this issue. Hopefully, we can get coach Saban's hands on the wheel to stop the freefall.
Everyone hates the portal and NIL until their team makes the playoffs or wins a championship. I haven't a single person from the state of Indiana complain. Moreover, please understand that every team has built in fan base that have poured tens of thousands of dollars into their school and they want a winner yesterday. NIL is not a self created thing. People, really rich people, have driven this thing from the beginning. We don't know their names or reconzie their faces but it's always been them. Direct your anger accordingly. Show me a national champion and ask their fans how they feel about the portal and NIL.
I’m a HUGE Oregon Duck fan and I would acknowledge it’s out of control. But I’d also say we should acknowledge that a form of “NIL” has existed under the cover of darkness long before the authorized version: ESPECIALLY in the SEC! So, the problem is there is only one fix: a salary cap and a draft….
Penn State is in the playoffs and this video talks about Penn State complaining about the portal.
Facts! Anybody who has anything to do football and basketball over the last 50 years knows to be true. You ever wonder why schools in poorer or low population states have produced winners for so many years? @@marinz4life
My team is in the playoffs and hugely successful. I HATE NIL and Portal. Especially the portal and unlimited transfers.
Got to get some guardrails in place. For one, the Fall portal should probably close and the spring one be the only one. Just too much going on this time of year.
The transfer portal window is insane
Quality of talent. Years of devotion to a team. Difference with those other leagues. Same as with college football. Literally family history in some cases with it. Football isn’t declining. If anything it’s expanding. Especially in college football.
Josh nails it. Transfer portal, N.I.L., conference expansion, etc. are ruining college football. Team loyalty is out the door. Agents, "journalists" & wannabes have taken over. Sad times indeed.
Robby Ashford also went into the portal despite wanting to play in the bowl game. you have to get in early if you're not one of the top guys everyone wants. He's a great kid, has been a great teammate all around but there is only 1 QB on the field and you can't be mad at kids that want to play. Just because you're behind people doesn't make you bad or not good enough to start anywhere else. He'll be missed
Nick Saban is the answer to reel college football back in
NIL should be endorsement based and the portal should, first one is free after that you sit a season when transferring!! The best players are at their universities on scholarship so they play well, build thier brand and get endorsements!!! Also 100% end pay for play and pouching other teams players!! FIXED!!!
Bowl games are meaningless now. With NIL and transfer portal, a bunch of players won’t be playing for their teams. So Bowl games are like a spring game scrimmage.
15 days of extra practice most beneficial plus added revenue
Bowls are very Relevant
Most teams lose money doing bowl games. The playoff made them essentially meaningless. When players and coaches leave before the season ends.
@Kyleterp1 you are a negative Nelly and you would never be a part of my team
Ask the players at Georgia Tech, Colorado, Syracuse Unlv, give a break
No way these teams lose money
It’s just a matter of time before your average working man and woman college football fan begin to resent the players. Once that happens, it’s over. I wonder how long it will take?
You nailed it. That's the part people aren't talking about aloud. Josh got very close in this video, but he kept it vague and rhetorical.
Please talk about the JUCO law that just passed! Wild!!!!
I'm looking forward to a future documentary exploring the rise of organized crime in college athletics. The lack of regulations around athlete representation, especially by agents, creates a space for major issues. It's a topic that needs serious attention.
8:05 The mess was made by university presidents. They aren’t weak minded, they have had their mind on money and still do. CFB provides a lot of funding to universities and the presidents that can have realigned with other universities to create conferences that benefit them. It’s always been about money, not for the players, for the schools.
National signing day should be placed in the bye weekend between the conference championship games and the start of the playoffs.
They should be able to sign as soon as they’re offered.
Some of us don’t have the patience for this mess to be fixed we will just find something else to fill our time on Saturdays in the fall myself I am buying myself a new race car and returning to drag racing I do Not even want to hear a word about CFB I am so disappointed in what has happened it makes me sick .😮
Dallas wilson heading to Gators.. wow.. gators have a juggernaut of a receiving core for next year.. I think Florida now in top 5 recruiting class
How about going back to making players sit out a year, or as a minimum, making them sit out the first 6 games of the year?
Interested in what your Calendar would be.
16 Teams. NO Byes!
Bama would beat Boise State, Arizona State, and SMU 4 out of 5 games.
How much better would this year playoff be adding Bama, Miami, Ole Miss, and South Carolina?
No automatic bids!
Transfer portal needs to be FIXED!! I have only missed around 10 WVU home games since 1986. I use to know all the players down to the two deep. The last two years I didn’t see the point with the portal. I don’t even follow recruiting anymore. Why bother.
It has single handily killed the Washington State program, largest reason dickert chose to leave, he has to rebuild a roster every season and simply too much stress for a coach to have to go through every season
Almost sounded like you were talking about our government there at the end lol.
You said get someone in the room that can say no. How bout they get some Head Coaches and put them on staff and run all this through them. Nick Saben and Mac Brown can put there foot down and say the month of December is stupid for a Head Coaches schedule.
The same people and committees that threw cinder block rule book at kids and leveled program heads alike over the most inconsequential of compensation (arbitrarily handled btw, no 2 cases ever got the same punishments for the exact same “”crimes””) got told what they were doing was unconstitutional and instead of being adults, they just turned the knob all the way to the other end out of spite and let NIL and the portal run the way it does either out of spite or incompetence.
Agree, except that the constitution didn’t have anything to do with the state laws and court decisions that put us in this spot. The court cases were based on the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Tar and feather Jimmy Sexton as a good first start to fix coaching contracts.
Huge college football fan.. don’t even watch NFL… the portal and NIL have become out of control and have already ruined the game.. only going to get worse
Yearly Free agency is bad
Used to watch college football and went to a big ten school. It’s pure garbage these days
I have one simple question regarding the transfer portal and NIL: Who TF is in CHARGE???
I used to be a diehard college fan. Got a couple of bachelor degrees from LSU. Grew up on the New Orleans West Bank. Still bleed purple and gold, but I've stopped watching the rest of college football. I admire the hell out of Garrett Nussmeier for sticking with LSU. He sat the bench and waited. So I'll watch LSU. But forget the rest of college football.
Heck, I even miss the Pac-12 and the Rose Bowl where it was the Big-10 against the Pac-12. Whoever was responsible for the dissolution of the Pac-12 should be ...
Do you know what the biggest threat to college football is people that have watched college football their whole life and love the fact that they were amateurs and now they’re all a bunch of pros and it looks like I’m gonna stop watching cause if I wanna watch pro pro football is on Sunday
I've been turned off for several years, what's happening is not nil, their straight up paying players to play
Bowl games are more interesting nowadays. All the whinny 4 and 5 stars have left and you get to watch 3 stars and walkons that actually want to play.
Someone came and stole a freshman cb from Wisconsin.❤
Eliminate the transfer portal. Reform the playoff. Keep NIL. Problems solved.
I really honestly only watch my team and dont care about the others. I only have limited time and if I am going to watch professional athletes, I would rather watch the nfl.
A good example of what he’s talking about, is the NBA. They’re on a generational downfall right now
They don't try to correct it, they look to tweak it just enough. It's all about rating and money, and y'all refuse to see it.
LMFAO "We're nowhere near that point"? Cope harder... I'm here to watch it die.
The money lust is killing the game.
Who are those people who have made the Bad Decisions ?
Name names ...
And who are the Leaders who can make the right decisions going forward ?
Done!! ✌️
All professional sports with large guaranteed earnings will contract in the near future.
Change the portal to once a year May 20th to July 1st
College ball isnt even fun anymore. Not worth watching or paying for.
It's the minor leagues without any structure or stability. Crazy how after one the most exciting seasons ever, many fans are losing passion due to transfer portal moves. I know I am.
All I know is college football this year has been a blast. And despite all your "get off my lawn" rhetoric, it is wildly popular. Every game down the stretch this year mattered. And we talked about it non-stop.
But for God's sake, fix the damn transfer portal. I go to watch a Bowl game and all of the players I tuned in to watch are gone!! The Playoffs won't kill the Bowls. The portal WILL!!
Until the college players become employees with a union, this is what we are left with.
There is really no debate and it's been apparent for quite awhile that NIL and the Portal are a huge problem. I'm not sure why anyone would think it was a question. Add to that schools indirectly contacting players about portal transfer before the portal opens and you have a total mess. Also lets not even get started on the haves have nots when it comes to revenue. Yea it is all a cancer that could kill the sport as we know it unless something is done soon.
The way the playoffs are now will never make everyone happy. When humans have a hand in it there will be mistakes O-H
JP in the PJ
EMPLOYEES .. That’s how this Ends. The “bankers” are Not gonna share their 💰
Honestly NIL is only bad if hurts your team and good if it helps your team
NIL isn’t the issue imo. I could care less about how much the players make. If that’s what the university/staff decides their worth then so be it. It’s the endless amounts of players leaving at any given time. There is no accountability. That’s the issue imo
"STUDENT" athlete should mean something.
What should it mean
Nil definitely needs a cap. Or coaches need to get better at playing moneyball and not spending millions on a single player.
It kills me to say this but college footballs best days are behind it
If the right changes won’t be made and we don’t get leadership who knows what they are doing then it’s only gonna get worse
College football is in trouble
I love it. There has never been more parity in College Football than what we have now. It is the wild wild west, true, but you can't deny it's made the game infinitely more competitive across the board.
Made it much worse from a quality standpoint
Cap on NIL. Transfer portal in February. Make refereeing more standardized
I've been a supporter of college players making a little something for the billions of dollars they bring to the universities. I did not want the NIL or the portal though. I think the student athletes should be given a lump sum after college, much like a trust that matures after a few years. That way, they get monetary thanks and if they don't succeed at the next level, it's a bit for them to start their lives after football. The NIL in combination with the portal will be the death of the sport that I have loved for life. I really hope I am wrong.
NIL can be solved by 1 contracts that become voided if A you transfer B get bad Grades C. Do something that violates team and University policies. You are being paid you should act like it. NIL should be lumped in with revenue sharing too.
Illegal to do so, as NIL can’t be (on paper) pay for play.
NIL and the portal is not the problem. A lack of leadership is. Right now college football is run by unregulated free market capitalism - which is not a good thing. Regulated free market capitalism is preferable. College football need leadership (and probably a new umbrella organization) to establish boundaries and rules and bylaws which brings the anarchy and chaos under control.
Having the most qualified leaders serve themselves rather than the greater good is exactly why we have the disastrous circumstances we experience in college football and, if I may, the rest of the country and world. The most capable among us do not bear their appropriate portion of responsibility.
TOO MANY NFL Games, seem to have an invisible hand on the score. I won't watch that b.s., and if college switch's to that Blue Beer kick off the pro's use now, I'm going to hockey ! (SCO 🦆's) !
Stop calling it collage football, collage has nothing to do with it, players never see inside of classroom