Desperate times

[VolGirl81]

 

[LittleVol]

Coastal Carolina?

 

[GAVol]

I don’t know how smaller schools like that keep anybody. Here locally, the Mercer QB won the Jerry Rice Award and 6 weeks later he signed with Oregon State.

 

[VolGirl81]

Yep, its Coastal and there are plenty who have responded

 

[Jax_Vol]

I once scored four touchdowns in a single game for good ole Polk High

 

[utvols74]

Football will be emphasized at some schools (with large/med NIL budgets) and deemphasized at others (small to no NIL). The large schools will become the feeder schools for the NFL. Seldom will you see a B Favre (from So Miss) or Ben Roethlisberger (from Miami of Ohio) as players like these will have likely been "poached" by large NIL budgeted schools prior to graduating from those "small" schools.

 

[HeuperDrive]

I don’t know how smaller schools like that keep anybody. Here locally, the Mercer QB won the Jerry Rice Award and 6 weeks later he signed with Oregon State.

The current system is just not sustainable for the low tier G5, imo. Programs like Coastal will most likely be glorified feeder teams for the P5 in a few years. They lack the money and resources to keep up with even top tier G5s like Boise State, and even Boise State has a fraction of the resources the majority of the P5 has.

 

[stolitonic]

I once scored four touchdowns in a single game for good ole Polk High

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Old Al and his arch nemesis "Spare Tire" Dixon did indeed wage some mighty battles.

 

[YankeeVol]

I don’t know how smaller schools like that keep anybody. Here locally, the Mercer QB won the Jerry Rice Award and 6 weeks later he signed with Oregon State.

I don't know how Austin Peay kept our QB another year (was a Miss St. transfer).

 

[YankeeVol]

 

[Firebirdparts]

Back in 82, I could throw a football a quarter mile.

 

[miket4god]

Back in 82, I could throw a football a quarter mile.

WOW. You must have played against TJ Finley. He's been around that long.

 

[Flamparadiddle]

This is just sad. The powers that be that have let this happen are despicable for sitting back with their "oh well" attitude. I agree that the old world transfer rules were too stringent. I agree that players need to be paid for their likeness when schools make money off of them. I do not think kicking down the guardrails to our current way of doing things is healthy though.

 

[LouderVol]

This is just sad. The powers that be that have let this happen are despicable for sitting back with their "oh well" attitude. I agree that the old world transfer rules were too stringent. I agree that players need to be paid for their likeness when schools make money off of them. I do not think kicking down the guardrails to our current way of doing things is healthy though.

the whole system was against it and refused to budge for so long, that once the cracks formed there was no stopping the changes.

they could have been making incremental changes, and it probably never would have made the SC to force the issue.

 

[MHS Rebel]

Maryville has a rising senior who may be amenable to graduating early.

If you can't trust GMac, then I just don't know. He's been in the system two years. Go to GNC and buy him some "weight-on" supplements. Do like Barney Fife and put a heavy chain around his neck.

 

[S.C. OrangeMan]

This is just sad. The powers that be that have let this happen are despicable for sitting back with their "oh well" attitude. I agree that the old world transfer rules were too stringent. I agree that players need to be paid for their likeness when schools make money off of them. I do not think kicking down the guardrails to our current way of doing things is healthy though.

Unless the NCAA gets an a antitrust exemption, it's how things will be from now on.

The NCAA did this to themselves by violating federal laws and being so arrogant that their only plan was to always get away with it.

 

[BruisedOrange]

The current system is just not sustainable for the low tier G5, imo. Programs like Coastal will most likely be glorified feeder teams for the P5 in a few years. They lack the money and resources to keep up with even top tier G5s like Boise State, and even Boise State has a fraction of the resources the majority of the P5 has.

In fact, the market for a college education is not sustainable, and, ironically, that may fix the football problem.

Most college degrees today are neither necessary for a good paying job, nor are many jobs capable of paying off a 4-year college investment. With AI positioned to eliminate most of the available white collar jobs (many HR departments have ceased hiring already in anticipation of AI covering those responsibilities) a few brick & mortar colleges may continue as specialists for a few students rather than part of a broad, generic education.

The sustainable football programs may even out as their hosting colleges and universities fold or diminish, and look for private equity to feast on the campus land grab.