Jordan Ross Hits Portal

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DaddyChad said:
Idk. Guys are getting paid for sure. Values have doubled or even tripled on some positions. Teams are desperate and will over pay for mediocrity imo

Btw sorry for being a dick earlier, this whole crap of entire rosters portaling just annoys me. Sours the entire experience of college football
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Thank you. I’m sorry for participating in that also.

I agree with you. It’s supposed to be light hearted and fun. College football is how I stay connected with people. It’s mostly what I talk about with my dad, father in law, cousins, and friends when we’re not trying to talk about serious things.

At some point it has to conclude with “we’ve already paid for this”. The athletes have to be accountable for their agreements.
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
Wait a minute, I stopped reading at the kids don't deserve to be paid. Why shouldn't the kids be paid? I've taught my kids that their time and skills are valuable. They should be compensated for those things, correct? I am positive that you're a good employee, and that you add value to your job. Would you work at a company for 4 years where they only gave you a stipend, food and housing. The stipend amount is small. The person training you though, gets millions of dollars whether they're good at what they do or not. They can also decide to leave and go to another company for more money, but you're stuck there. You can leave but you can't showcase your skills for a year, which is keeping you from getting a job that pays. Then the company makes millions off of your work as you suffer injury, endure disrespect from random people you don't know, but you're held to a higher standard, so you can't respond. If you're lucky, at the end of your time as an unpaid crash test dummy, you are able to go and make big bucks to be a crash test dummy. If you aren't lucky, you go off into the real world, broken and battered, and trying to find your way. But at least you got food, housing, a stipend, and a degree. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Not to mention the mental health issues that can result. But carry-on.
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So, you are saying an unproven 18 year who has contributed ZERO to the team deserves to paid $5 million? i am not saying pay is unacceptable, ridiculous amounts of pay for unproven athletes, who have NO incentive to put extra effort out to improve their game DO NOT deserve the amount they are being paid. They are chasing the almighty dollar and no longer have any loyalty to anything. Your mindset is the basis for the pure mercenary situation we have. Do not blame this mess on the coach. NIL has taken it out of their hands. I don't care if they fire the coach anymore. I am an alum, ex POTS member and will always support what is left of the program. You want another couple of decades of purgatory, by all means push your idiotic agenda. Exactly how many of these players right now are even attempting to get a degree? I exist in the real world, and I am fully aware of what the people that pay the price for the jacked-up prices cause. I am tired of the people that are all "power to the athletes" but then complaining about the team not meeting expectations. Take a basic economics course. Don't bother wasting your time responding, I will not see it. Buh Bye.
 
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Pride85 said:
So, you are saying an unproven 18 year who has contributed ZERO to the team deserves to paid $5 million? i am not saying pay is unacceptable, ridiculous amounts of pay for unproven athletes, who have NO incentive to put extra effort out to improve their game DO NOT deserve the amount they are being paid. They are chasing the almighty dollar and no longer have any loyalty to anything. Your mindset is the basis for the pure mercenary situation we have. Do not blame this mess on the coach. NIL has taken it out of their hands. I don't care if they fire the coach anymore. I am an alum, ex POTS member and will always support what is left of the program. You want another couple of decades of purgatory, by all means push your idiotic agenda. Exactly how many of these players right now are even attempting to get a degree? I exist in the real world, and I am fully aware of what the people that pay the price for the jacked-up prices cause. I am tired of the people that are all "power to the athletes" but then complaining about the team not meeting expectations. Take a basic economics course. Don't bother wasting your time responding, I will not see it. Buh Bye.
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It's required they matriculate academically towards a degree. In case you haven't noticed, many who hit the portal have already earned a degree and are attending grad school at their chosen designation. Lots of older students are actually what's turning it around for schools with traditionally poor programs
 
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utchs81 said:
I see you've ferreted out some of the issues with the present situation, but do you have any potential solutions? I do think that empty seats in the stadium would eventually have an impact on the powers that be, because without the fan the sport will dry up and blow away. Just look at what NASCAR has become. I love college football and the best game I watched this year was the DII championship this week because it at least seems to be pure.
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Well, go ahead and just accept the fact that it is professional sports now. Even professional athletes, idiotic salaries aside, have rules they have to follow. They have clauses in their contracts that require them to achieve certain levels of performance to get fully paid. NONE of that exists in college sports now. No restrictions on transfers, no requirements for performance, no incentives to work hard in practice. If an NIL baby doesn't like the way a coach talks to them, they just jump in the portal and find something better. If they have enough stars, some team's idiotic star-gazing fan base will demand the school fork over money to bring them in. Rinse and repeat.
 
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Pride85 said:
Well, go ahead and just accept the fact that it is professional sports now. Even professional athletes, idiotic salaries aside, have rules they have to follow. They have clauses in their contracts that require them to achieve certain levels of performance to get fully paid. NONE of that exists in college sports now. No restrictions on transfers, no requirements for performance, no incentives to work hard in practice. If an NIL baby doesn't like the way a coach talks to them, they just jump in the portal and find something better. If they have enough stars, some team's idiotic star-gazing fan base will demand the school fork over money to bring them in. Rinse and repeat.
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At the very moment the NIL passed, tons of people in the business warned it would get out of hand because of the lack of guardrails in the process. At some point the establishment of regs will have to happen. As to the players being professional athletes, yes, they are professional in the sense they are getting paid. The are not professionals though, in the manner for which they are being paid as if it is a career. Surely you understand the difference
 
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madbamahater said:
There's more to this story
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There always is.

Ross was recruited to play a niche role in a particular defensive scheme. If/when he had gone pro, they would have made him reshape his body or play another position. He may not want to do that for the new DC... but eventually it won't be a choice if he wants to be paid.
 
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utvolpj said:
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This is annoying. I live in Baton Rouge and am gonna be annoyed every time I read or hear about him in the local media. I want to say that I don't wish him ill ... except, I do hope he is allergic to shrimp and crawfish. And nobody tells him about the plastic baby in the king cake.
 
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There is more to the story. Sometimes situations are very sad based on decisions people make. Sometimes rumors are true sometimes they aren't. If a person's heart isn't into something they aren't going to do it but there is more going on
 
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