There's your answer - instead of signing an LOI, recruits now sign enforceable NIL contracts at their chosen school with penalties limiting transfers!
Dang, FSU looks like their whole team is quitting on them
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...and precluding opt-outs. In the NFL, do players who are about to become free agents get to opt out of their present team's playoff games? We all know the answer to that one.
Sounds like you are promoting the inevitable consequence regarding the CFP, that has already taken place regarding the bowl season, and for which you have lost interest in. What happens when you lose interest in the CFP once there are "too many games that you can watch" during the CFP, and that "you see everyone" playing???
I really think your in the minority In this and viewership and interest proves it.
It's a moot point becAuse they aren't gonna beat UGA, but you don't think an AP poll #1 would matter?
Hell, Bama claims about 8 national championships that no one else thinks are legit. Tennessee also claims about 4 or 5 that are bogus.
Gamecock bowl opt out and portal transfer to FSU, Jahiem Bell opted out of the FSUs Bowl Game!
SHOCKING!!!
SHOCKING!!!
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There was the greatest generation that saved the world. Then there’s this generation.
It's ominous for the bowl system as it is. Contracts are now necessary. If these people want to be quasi pros, then they need to be obligated in the same ways the real pros are.
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There's a remedy, but it breaks new ground. Without the remedy, bowls might as well be discontinued.
Lower tier bowl games have been insignificant and have survived forever, I’m not sure the playoff is going to change that, they will still be telecast and the teams hardcore fans will still travel and most of their fans will at least tune in no matter what. I’m not sure opt-outs, nil or the portal will ever change that! The only thing I could see changing that situation is either the players or the fans boycotting, and one of those wouldn’t surprise me!
The attitude of these kids makes college football less appealing. Make them pay for their school classes if possible, the jerks.
Contracts. Bundle scholarships and NILs into packages and have all players sign contracts to perform. We've crossed into territory where this is not only feasible, but necessary. All of these players are older than 18. They don't need their parents to sign.
I think it has become a product of the playoffs and the portal/nil mentality. Players are thinking more in business terms and have more of a pro mindset than team pride. Training for the combine or pro day is more important than the exposure I get in a non playoff bowl. It will be kind of like Rodgers for the Jets. I will be able to play if we can make the playoffs It will get worse with the 12 team playoffs. No one is going to be interested in the other bowls unless your team is playing in them. I think power conference teams that don’t make the playoffs are going to suffer in exposure and recruiting.
That's right. Binding contracts is the only way to stop the "free agency" transfer frenzy!
They are professionals now - treat them accordingly!
They're going to get their transfers, I'm afraid, but at least while they're at a school, they perform.
Winning a national championship still means something. Plus the extreme exposure can mean a lot financially. Plus I would think the GMs would worry about someone that opt outs with a national championship on the line. Their agents will advise them to play. On the other side the teams that are not in the top four will have to play four games to win the championship and you would think most will be hard games. Teams without depth could get pretty beat up. Coaches stand to do well but the players are not getting any of the huge tv deals.
They don't want to be a part of the epic beat-down Georgia will lay on them.
They could. No different from the CFP committee selecting teams that they think are the best ones.
And the playoff is basically a simple tournament - the winner simply "won a tournament". They might not necessarily have the best team.
As long as the best team was in there and got to play for it, and no team was obviously unfit to be in it, I believe the committee would be home free. It's a little like The Final Four in one aspect: the best strength index team doesn't always win, but the team that hoists the trophy isn't begrudged.
When N.C. State beat Houston, people were generally giddy over it even though the best team didn't win. But the best team had its chance.
Looks like they agree with the selection committee. They know they can't compete without their QB.
Simply shocking that Bell would opt out (quit) on his coaches and teammates. Bowl games are losing their ‘luster’ more and more each season with opt outs and transfers. The Orange Bowl used to be a really big game each New Years….how long are fans going to spend into the $thousands to attend meaningless bowl games missing numerous key players???
I think the lower tier bowls are actually some of the most entertaining to watch. The 6-6/7-5 teams that don't go to bowls every season are much more excited about playing in a bowl than the teams that missed out on the playoff because of one loss.
I agree. Plus, it’s kind of fun to watch and think who might be available in the portal in a few weeks.
Bowls have been irrelevant for sometime. The portal has made them so irrelevant to the point most would just rather wait a few months and go to the spring game. Today is Christmas and I haven't watched a second of one yet. College fb has some serious problems going forward that will just exponentially get worse.
It's not so much a penalty, as that the contract will no longer be void, and one could be sued for breach of contract, should they decide to leave before the contractual time stated.
As long as a player is comfortable with those caveats then they are free to exercise their options
Better explanation than mine.
By penalties, I meant those set forth in the contractual obligations which one would hope would be painful enough to limit those willing to break a contract.
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Well, FSU lost the guy who was going to start the bowl at qb, and two more starting db's. The lost a couple DLinemen and a couple WR's too. I'm sure there's more, but that's just what I remember.
That team is going to get slaughtered in the bowl.
And I wager people ignore the opt outs and argue the game will prove FSU didn't belong.
That team is going to get slaughtered in the bowl.
And I wager people ignore the opt outs and argue the game will prove FSU didn't belong.
That's an interesting concept. I assume players do not have to sign legally binding NIL contracts as yet. If they were contractually bound to a school through a NIL contract, they couldn't jump ship or sit out a bowl game. Of course, this would open Pandora's box even wider. Lawyers would love it but we'd end up with even more chaos over who and how to enforce these contracts
FSU is a team built with transfers. I think massive opt outs will be the rule going forward for teams who bring in lots of transfers and don't make the playoff. Portal players have very little attachment to the team they are playing for.