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NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 11, 2022, 5:48 PM
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NIL - Kids should be free to earn money off of NIL and other work while in school and playing football. It's the American Way. However, the NCAA, or at minimum a consortium of Power 5 conferences, can also set a limit as to what total amount can be earned by their student-athletes to allow that program to remain eligible to compete for championships. That would not go against any law or legal right that has been established. Kid can earn all he wants to, but if School A is at their limit then it's either not an option or some teammates need to restructure theirs to accommodate. All of this revenue will have to be reported to the IRS anyway, so it's not like it can't be shared with a school or its governing body. An NIL cap if you will.
Transfer Portal. I love it - find your bliss in life. However, there must be limits on eligibility to play following a transfer. If it occurs after only the first season on campus, when you discover the bill of goods you were sold isn't all that, or if you've earned your degree - you should be free to move about the country as you see fit. Everything else should require sitting a year and losing that eligibility. At that point, you haven't earned a degree, and you should know better. This makes it the most fair all around.
ACC Schedule. Divisions suck and strangle our national appeal with tired yearly match-ups and dumb names that make no sense unless you are an ACC homer. Any plan that dismantles those and doesn't up the number of league games past 8 is great for Clemson, the ACC, and yours truly. Variety is the spice of life.
Playoffs. Replace the conference championship games, which are a hodgepodge of sometimes meaningful and sometimes meaningless games, many of which are rematches in a game that already has too short a schedule, with a quarterfinal round of Power 5 regular season champs plus 3 at-larges. The max number of games remains at 15, teams can open up their OOC scheduling without fear of a loss knocking them out of a playoff (via a conference title), and the bowl system as we know it can remain intact as the entertaining year-end exhibition schedule that it has been for years.
Viva la football.
You're welcome.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 11, 2022, 5:55 PM
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College is college and it is not the NFL with salary caps. Lawyers would line up against your idea because as you say, this is America and even college athletes now have a right to earn money.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 11, 2022, 6:32 PM
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An NIL cap does not limit any individual from earning whatever he wants. It only limits a participating school from exceeding its NIL by taking them on. These NIL dollars are worthless without the school and its brand and its followers behind it. It's a two way street. Can't have one without the other. Ensuring that as many programs as possible can remain competitive and healthy is imperative to there being value to NIL. Everybody wins, and there's enough collective bargaining precedents in place for it to stand.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 12, 2022, 11:07 AM
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Your idea won't work because the school is not paying the NIL money. It is paid by the local car dealership, tattoo shop, restaurant, etc. You can't cap them as they are completely unrelated entities making individual business decisions.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 12, 2022, 11:37 AM
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Yes - the funds are coming from 'outside' the program. That still does not prevent the NCAA or a Power 5 consortium from setting an overall NIL limit that a program cannot exceed with its roster. All of this income must be reported to the IRS, thus it can sure be reported to each school which in turn shares its totals with the organizing and controlling body. Once a school nears or hits its limit, it cannot take on any additional players with NIL deals unless and until a player either departs or the collective amount is lessened. The laws being passed and the courts say an individual can earn anything he wants - the sky's the limit. They also say a school cannot ban a player from earning NIL dollars. This doesn't breach that either. What it would accomplish is that a school simply can't accept an incoming player if their particular NIL deal would push the program out of championship eligibility. Does any law or court judgement demand that a school must accept a particular player? They don't. And herein lies, as I see it, an opportunity to control the NIL landscape, and protect the goose, at the league/association level. The number would be sizeable, and developed in as fair a way as possible to reflect what could be available for these kids, but without an NCAA-wide or similar cap in place, it will kill the goose that's providing these golden eggs. That's how pro leagues have stayed competitive and in business, from the biggest market teams to the smallest. A fashion of this is required for college.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 12, 2022, 11:52 AM
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Yes, it absolutely does stop anyone from limiting it. It would be illegal. You would need a CBA to make this possible and I'd question if that would even be enough.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 12, 2022, 12:06 PM
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The ultimate decision would be up to each program. They can still field a team and play out a schedule, perhaps even play in a league title or bowl game. They just would not be eligible to compete for the championship, said championship belonging to the NCAA or Power 5 consortium or whatever that has agreed to an overall NIL cap to determine such eligibility. The ultimate choice would be the program's.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 11, 2022, 5:56 PM
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Forgot to say divisions are not why ACC football is bad and has no respect. Lack of talent beyond the top 2 or 3 teams is the reason.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 12, 2022, 11:01 AM
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you are saying the govt should set a cap on how much someone can earn? What about free market capitalisms?
Get outta here with that big govt hogwash you commie!
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 12, 2022, 12:18 PM
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Your reading comprehension has failed you. Sorry about that. On NIL I clearly stated that the institutions that these kids play for would collectively set a cap on what any one program can accommodate from outside IF THEY CHOSE TO COMPETE FOR A CHAMPIONSHIP. Any individual kid can earn whatever his heart desires, he just might not be able to attend a school that has reached an NIL limit, because they would be 'full' in a way, just like scholarship limits.
Save your reactionary dribble for someone else.
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Re: NIL. Transfer Portal. ACC Schedule. Playoffs.
May 12, 2022, 2:54 PM
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Relax, Francis.
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