College sports

[TnRiver46]

Big news here today, although the judge told the NCAA that’s exactly what would happen. They barked up the wrong tree for the 10,000th time and everyone has had enough. NCAA likely is toast. We just got done paying a 12 million dollar fine and being on probation for quite a while, then they decided our top notch QB shouldn’t have received a plane ride from California to Knoxville to visit the university. Bad choice 

This hilarious photo shop is our chancellor’s face on the left donde plowman, she’s a rockstar 

 

 

the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 (rare for them to all agree) in the Sherman case that set the precedent 

[TnRiver46]

[Choporoz]

I am unfamiliar with any details.  However, I doubt they save college football for me.  Today's portal situation has destroyed the game for me.  Impossible for me to get behind my team, nevermind follow any other teams, when I cannot foolow players from one year to the next.  I went to Wisconsin and I didn't like it when Russ came in for a year (taking some else's scholarship), even though he took us to a Rose Bowl.  The revolving door now makes my head spin.  Maybe one transfer in year one or two of eligibility...maybe I could get behind?

[TnRiver46]

it has nothing to do with transfers 
 

The details were, the NCAA chairman sat on live TV and said there were no rules concerning NIL for the players (nov 2023). Then they said TN broke some rules that didn’t exist recruiting their quarterback, mainly a plane ride from CA to Knoxville, guess he was supposed to take a greyhound. 
 

maybe 6-8 months ago the NCAA fined UT 12 million dollars after a separate 2 yr investigation. Basically the NCAA keeps  making up stuff regardless of anti trust laws and got taken to court and lost again. NCAA was also defeated 9-0 in the US Supreme Court, they are a joke. To put it in layman’s terms , they barked up the wrong tree again and got bit 

[gim]

The NCAA is in hot water for sure.

 

But I do agree with @Choporoz, the transfer portal is way too loose. It’s like free agency for college sports. Recruiting has become less important because of it too. Now you have to coddle players so they don’t leave via the portal, and you can build a solid team through the portal instead of recruits. They need to tighten it back up again.

 

To be clear, the portal is a separate issue from what @TnRiver46 has originally posted.

[Tennessee Boy]

I agree the NCAA is likely toast and that’s good.  It’s hard to imagine what the future will look like for college football.  It may get to the point where college football players make more than NFL players due to the NFL salary cap and the fact that NFL fans have no desire to supplement the income of NFL players.

[TnRiver46]

I’d guess they will start collectively bargaining if it does change 

[throttleplate]

how about college fishing teams, any them boys makin nil money?

[TnRiver46]

Not quite…… they don’t even get a scholarship at UT