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Transfer Portal... again...
Dec 11, 2021, 10:24 PM
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So - Clemson has another player enter the transfer portal... I'm really starting to hate what the transfer portal is becoming and what it is ultimately doing to the student athletes and college athletics in general. Back in July of this year, Greg Sankey (SEC Commissioner) made a statement that over 13,000 student-athletes had entered the transfer portal, and over 11,000 of them still remained in it.
In other words - 84% of the student athletes that were giving up their college scholarships to enter the transfer portal were not being picked up by other schools and are now without a scholarship to further their education. I wonder how many of that 11,000 will be able to continue their education on their own dime. I wonder how many of them in a few years will look back at their decision to enter the transfer portal with regret.
A sports scholarship used to be looked at as a means of getting a free college education that many would not otherwise be able to obtain. A college degree was the ultimate goal for all but a few who would be among the 2% that ever make it to the professional level. But then college sports (namely football and basketball) started generating insane amounts of money and the education aspect of college athletics took a backseat to the TV deals, coaching contracts, and league payouts.
To make matters even worse, those that were getting drunk off the college sports money spigot refused to consider the student athletes position in all of it. As Politicians forced a reckoning, the NCAA essentially threw it's hands in the air and we now have the wild west of NIL and unfettered access to free agency through the transfer portal; all of which with no linkage to the educational aspects of obtaining a college degree.
So it is little wonder that a lot of today's scholarship athletes value playing time over keeping their current scholarships and earning a degree. The focus seems to be on everything but education when it comes to college athletics and without some serious debate and (dare I say it) regulation it is going to get much worse. It's the instant gratification world we live in but unfortunately for many in the transfer portal (if Sankey's numbers are accurate) most will not only end up without a degree but without getting paid as well....
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agreed.....but like it or not it's part of the game now.....
Dec 11, 2021, 10:26 PM
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Clemson (Dabo) needs to adapt or get left behind.
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Re: agreed.....but like it or not it's part of the game now.....
Dec 11, 2021, 11:00 PM
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Greed and not valuing a quality education. Just glad i grew up watching in a era that was not consumed with me me me
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Re: agreed.....but like it or not it's part of the game now.....
Dec 12, 2021, 5:32 AM
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I think Dabo is smarter than most when it comes to recruiting. You are hearing about all these players that find success, yeah ok it's 10 stories. There are over 1000+ out of those 10 that are working for a living, still looking for a schollie or have completely lost their opportunities.
Dabo is ahead of the curve I believe. I think he is telling HS recruits that he will build, develop and make sure you get a degree if you stay with Clemson. He has already forecasted that the current rate of transfer isn't sustainable, it is already costing HS recruits opportunities because teams like USF, UCF, Houston, Memphis, etc, which are decent teams cant recruit 4*-5* players so they milk the Portal. So that leaves 2-3* players not getting offers.
Dabo wants to build the best he can through recruiting HS, but he will take a player when it is an immediate need. These people that are jonesing for a portal player, you need to look at their success rates. I think UGA took three 5* players from 2020 portal and the only one that played came in with Gun charges from Clemson. I do not see Dabo taking anyone with pending gun charges, he isn't going to sell his sole for a win.
Let Dabo build it his way. He is a brilliant coach. He will get us back if he wants to work that hard again. My hope is he doesn't get burned out with the new landscape and just goes to pro's!
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Re: Transfer Portal... again...
Dec 11, 2021, 10:52 PM
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It definitely needs some oversight as well as NIL. Looks like the institutions and the conferences could come up with something. If nothing else take 5% of all the TV money and that goes towards paying for oversight. NCAA would no longer exist. Unless they would be dictated the oversight role. Otherwords, NCAA wouldn't dictate anything. They would enforce what the institutions voted on and adopted.
It wouldn't be easy but ultimately it's the only way to take care of the student atheletes and still have the integrity of the game. If not, the only thing you'll end up with is a farm system. That'd suck.
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Re: Transfer Portal... again...
Dec 11, 2021, 11:04 PM
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Just players who didn't live up to their expectations. They know they won't start at Clemson. It Will make room for others.
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Re: Transfer Portal... again...
Dec 11, 2021, 11:32 PM
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Tabby - I concur 100%.
I look at some ( dare I say as well - regulation ) of the transfer portal the same way I look at targeting!
The rule is actually set up - "to protect the tackler" from harm!
Think about that!
Making them miss a half is so they can reflect on how they could potentially give themselves or others a lifelong injury or paralysis.
So, to protect them, you initiate a targeting rule that comes with an ejection!
Apply the same principle to the portal - or rather make it how it was - a kid has to sit out a year unless they can prove some serious reason they need to transfer!
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Just freedom and capitalism
Dec 12, 2021, 12:16 AM
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First, I don’t disagree with anything in your post and gave it a TU,
Civilization is based on giving up some individual freedom for the benefit of the community, The community in turn provides a set of benefits to all the individuals. Unconstrained personal freedom can diminish the benefits a community provides _ either directly or indirectly. Organization’s function similarly. There are rules and requirements that individuals must abide by to allow the organization to provide a set of benefits. Moving the set point for allowable individual freedom changes the dynamics.
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Well, my Friend, you just excellently summed up
Dec 12, 2021, 5:17 AM
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why I detest the idiotic "rewriting" of the transfer rule.
I suspected from the beginning that the new version would prove to be one of the most inane decisions in the history of our sport. The second thing I despise is the NIL rule...an abomination in of itself.
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Re: Transfer Portal... again...
Dec 12, 2021, 6:28 AM
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With NIL at certain schools worth more than a scholarship itself things are certainly changing. There is just way too much money in college football for a scholarship to really mean anything for good players.
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Re: Transfer Portal... again...
Dec 12, 2021, 8:17 AM
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I agree with much of your post. However, I'm not sure what you mean by the NCCA "threw it's hands in the air." The NCCA had rules against players receiving compensation other than what was allowed in the scholarship. I may be mistaken, but I think NIL resulted from a court ruling. If that's the case, the NCCA can't do much but throw their hands in the air. As for the transfer portal, other than athletes, most of whom are probably convinced greatness awaits at the next school, I don't think anyone likes it. Coaches are just going to have to learn to manage it.
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