Sean’s full tweet:
If this is how we are going to do college football, then they should be able to cut players any time they want, attach buyout numbers to every player, and put a salary cap on the money available in the portal. Time to give these players a taste of reality. Also, need to tie academic progress and performance with their ability to get any money. We no longer have college sports!
I thought this was Titans & Cam Ward
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NCAAF category…read the fine print…
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I forgot Cam Ward is a CFL QB lol
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At this point I want to see college football crash & burn. Maybe something better will rise from the ashes.
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Here we go, alright NCAA athletes you want to hold out? Fair enough, teams are more than welcome to just cut you if they’d like-no need to honor a scholarship at this point
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So, I guess the negotiations didn’t go well for the QB.
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I mean, they could have seen it coming! It is right there in his name!
Iamaleava… I am a leava… I am a leaver!
I’ll show myself out now…
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College sports is a mess.
Good for Tennessee!
On his next team, Nico will be wanting to negotiate after any good game. We are now entering that phase.
There are a lot of changes that are needed, and my gut says the NCAA is going to look to re-add the 1 year transfer wait period, to stop guys from just walking out over NIL money and immediately going to a new school. It could be a type of hybrid rule, where you have a designated transfer date window that a player could leave a school and play the next season. Any transfers taking place outside of that window would then be subject to one year of sitting out. Clearly there is a lot of work that’s needed, because NIL with no boundaries is destroying college sports.
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The courts said they can’t restrict transfer ability of the student athletes. The only way I see this working (which the sport sorely needs) is if it’s included in a settlement reached by the NCAA and a players’ association that is yet to exist.
I wonder what he was asking for. $7m?
JT Toppin is supposedly getting $4m to play return to TTU. Good basketball player but not that good.
The whole system if not regulated will collapse on itself IMO.
Got it. One question if anyone knows. I read Tennessee had already renegotiated Nico’s NIL money after the season ended. Then Nico wanted to renegotiate again prior to the spring game. Did Tennessee already pay money after the first renegotiation? Could they try to get that money back since Nico never played?
I love it. Let chaos reign! Bring down the monster!
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IMO this can only really go 2 ways:
1:) in it’s current trajectory where it just becomes like European Soccer where if you don’t have the backing, nothing matters.
Or
2:) they can save the main two sports by having some kind of salary cap. I have in the past suggested a hybrid incorporating parts of MLB’s International free agent signing where you can move forward without limits for one year but then you have severe ramifications for the next. I might stretch that out to next two years for competitive balance sake. Basically a soft cap model like the NBA but the luxury tax is paid in loss of future NIL allotment.
If they want to do number 2 they need to move quickly. We are barreling towards the first.
Oh it’s the first. Of course it’s the first.
The second would be awesome. Well awesome given the possibilities. Think of it for teams like OKState. You could go cheap for two years. Save up your TV and booster dollars and go for the playoff once every three years.