The “unintended consequences” of this proposal are ENORMOUS. Don’t ask me to list them, but they range from a vast reduction in the number of scholarship athletes (because many lower-level programs just can’t compete anymore) to a gradual loss of local programs because the quality just isn’t there.
To me an interesting dynamic is the masses are tuning out of pro-sports and college sports are suffering attendance issues and the millennials have already shown they are less interested in sports overall and absolutely pro-sports.
Pair with that soaring college education costs, coach salaries, cost of attendance, etc.
So in the middle of this we decide to make college operate more like the pro leagues people are tuning out of and strip yet one more piece away from what made college sports interesting.
I’m not talking about rules the NCAA will be enforcing, I’m talking about the legislation that was passed in CA and FL. Does anyone know if any guidelines or regulations were part of these bills aimed at protecting the players?
The reason everyone breaks the NCAA rules is because getting caught means the worst you’ll get is NCAA purgatory for a couple years. If states pass NIL laws, they have the ability to put up guardrails, that if ignored, would bring criminal charges.
The problem with the state laws is they are all different. Needs to be one set of rules that are the same for all NCAA members. I don’t think this is something the federal government should be wasting resources or taxpayer dollars on but some are already talking about Congress taking on the issue. Not sure how you could get every state to adopt the same law but would think that would be the only way it could work.
Until this becomes a problem for us I am not going to spend too much time worrying about it. I can’t change it, and I don’t want to miss a minute of good Niner sports now, because I have been waiting 15 years to get back here. Maybe this will be the mid-major version of one-and-done players. The P5 figured out how to cope with that, and maybe we will too.
The NCAA is a bunch of bumbling fools not capable of protecting the game, but we can’t change that either.
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THIS!!!
Add to that, I will be 80 in April and I’d like to watch some more 49er success before I’m gone. Now THERE’S some existential s**t for you.
The ESPN article was great, capturing lots of opinions from those on both sides of the argument. The SMU coach had the best response because he spoke to what’s right by the players, but also how it can and would go very wrong for the G5. His last point about desperate coaches going to great lengths recruiting off other campuses over the summer was especially candid.
HOAs and poachers of all kinds are spawn of the devil and should be eliminated.
That ESPN article is a good one. I guess this is going to happen, and it is going to be a cluster-**** for everyone.
Coaches will alway be recruiting, which is going to increase costs, so they will need to increase their recruiting budgets, and that money needs to come from donors. However, if this leads to a drop in fan interest there will be less money to support this. Schools already on the financial edge–ECU, Appy, Southen Miss, Marshall–will be at an even bigger disadvantage against bigger budget schools like ODU and North Texas that probably can take advantage of the disparity caused by the churn.
With the threat that every player is more likely to leave–good ones to bigger named schools, and role players to schools where they can start and star–coaches need to always have players lined up to replace everyone. This recruiting will lead to opportunities for coaches to overrecruit everyone. Loyalty must go out the window because the new rules will not allow you to play the game that way and win. Players that start for Charlotte may transfer and come off the bench for NCSU, and a player on Charlotte’s bench may not get a chance to move to that starting job because the coach has “promised” it to the high scorer from Winthrop he has coming in.
I wonder if Sanchez can teach the pack line knowing that his roster is going to be fluid from year to year? Will successfull teams start to look more like AAU, run and gun, no defense teams? Will fans stick with this?
The biggest question to me in all of this is if the fans leave, does that kill the golden goose that is NCAA sports? For me, it is a maybe. As a lifelong basketball fanatic I watch zero NBA games. I hope college ball doesn’t become like that. I am concerned.
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It will absolutely kill the golden goose. If this goes down I am almost positive my interest goes from being die hard to casual and my donations will go to nearly zero.
At the end of the day sports is a side show and thats it. My life doesnt need it or require. Rather painlessly I have removed nearly all prosports from my life and can do the same with college if need be.
Truth. I used to be a huge hockey and baseball fan. I haven’t watched a hockey game in 20 years, and only watch baseball if I’m in the stadium. I don’t miss either of them. Turning point for me was the strikes/lockouts in the 90s. It just wasn’t the same after that - too hard to keep track of who was playing where. You were rooting for a uniform and the owners at that point, not the players.
I’ve also been able to painlessly eliminate most college sports, save the Niners. I don’t sit down on Saturdays and watch games from noon to 11 pm like I used to, and I don’t watch basketball unless it’s the Niners or an occasional Villanova game (my brother and his wife both went there, and live there).
These days weekends are soccer in the morning with breakfast, F1 race on some Sundays, then outside or off to kid activities or whatever.
There are a lot of different ways to spend time these days, and doing anything to allow a fan a glimpse of life without whatever it is you are pushing can be really detrimental. It’s tough to get fans back once you lose them. Look no further than the empty seats in Halton as proof.
For those giving up college sports in the near future, F1 offers a great alternative since races are usually over by 10 am on Sundays!
The new transfer rule will damage everybody IMO . Everyone involvedShould step back and see the bigger picture. Being a conservative I do believe in a free market but we’re not selling widgets but a different animal called entertainment that happens to be competition. Currently all 350 Division I teams have a shot at the national title. Win your conference tournament then six games in the NCAA and You’re national champs. If the P5 teams can buy and poach players that have been developed by hard working mid major or lower coaches , competition will be killed thus interest in March madness will never be the same. Why is March madness one of the most watched sporting event every year.? No event encompasses such a large fan base, if not a team then a conference. Go ahead and pass These new rules . College sports as we know it will never be the same .
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I wonder if the measuring stick for coaching success will be how many kids did you have transfer to the P5?
When there’s only5 to10 power teams vying for the championship how interested are the other 95% of fans who once truly were fanatical about the tournament going to be ? Tv ratings down, poorer attendance bottom line money drys up. Top coaches, administrators, NCAA, politicians, better think long and hard before passing sweeping changes.
I keep trying to think of different ways to explain why I think this is a bad idea besides the obvious it will F-up college sports argument. Can’t argue that student athletes will benefit from being able to get what they want sooner. Who doesn’t want to get what they want as soon as possible. I just don’t think the current situation is that bad for the student athlete. In most situations if a coach leaves, an athlete has family issues or has been mistreated the NCAA already grants a waiver. And even if they don’t the athlete can practice with the team & basically gets an extra year of all expenses paid college. Many who redshirt take advantage of it & end up with graduate degrees. What bothers me is that the benefit of the athlete getting what they want immediately doesn’t seem to be great enough to risk the possible death of G5/mid-major college football & basketball. I am & never have been a college athlete so obviously I don’t see things from their point of view. But as a father I do know that young people sometimes make bad decisions when things get tough & they usually take the short term easy road no matter if it’s best for them in the long run. So maybe making it easier for them to make a knee jerk decision is not necessarily a good thing. Having to sit a year forces them or should force them to think a little harder before they make that decision. So this rule change may benefit college athletes in the short term but could ruin it for future athletes who may not have the opportunity to play college sports if they don’t exist. If nothing else the quality of play will suffer at the G5 level from a lack of team building & continuity much like P5 basketball has suffered from all of the 1 & done players.
Hey if this happens just saves me a a crap load of money and frees up a lot of time. I’m all in on the Niners until it becomes obvious that the new systems has ruined the experience then I’ll be nothing more than a casual supporter.
Over the next 2 weeks 300+ D1 teams play for a final4 appearance and national title. Continuous games, all televised the first week with rabid fans is the most popular sporting event every year. Don’t fix what isn’t broke.