As shitty as all this seems for the passionate following, people need to realize this is still a feeling out period for the NCAA with NIL and the Transfer Portal. We think we’re the only ones that are losing guys like Lovett and those who follow, but this Wild West mentality is going on everywhere at a seemingly exponential rate. And make no mistake, the NCAA is noticing.
At schools like Mizzou, our typical response to this kind of chaos is always, “the NCAA hates Mizzou and lets the blue bloods get away with murder”. While it’s true the NCAA protects its largest assets, this isn’t choosing to punish kU’s infractions vs Mizzou’s rogue tudor. This is Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, etc against the survival of the tiers below, which comprises probably 90% of the sport.
As terrible as the NCAA is, I’m confident there will be larger adjustments made to both the Portal and NIL in the near future. Not only is this going to dilute the coaching pool (what coaches anymore are going to want to deal with recruiting their entire roster plus their usual every year and deal with all this NIL stuff vs jumping to the NFL, if that option exists for them?) this is going to diminish viewership and alienate “average Joe fanbases”.
Nothing will stop back-channeling, tampering and cheating, but we will see a salary cap of sorts in CFB sooner than later. What that looks like? I have no idea. But this business model simply doesn’t make sense, nor does this current landscape of the TP/NIL do anything to better the overall product of CFB/CBB.
I’m not sure I’ll ever enjoy college sports the way I used to but I think the observation period for NCAA leadership and conference commissioners is coming to a close and changes to help control the madness are on the horizon. Increase in the number of assistant coaches, salary cap, and overall structure of NIL will all, IMO, have changes made soon to try and keep fanbases like Mizzou’s engaged.
And if not, college sports is going to lose a LOT of fans.
At schools like Mizzou, our typical response to this kind of chaos is always, “the NCAA hates Mizzou and lets the blue bloods get away with murder”. While it’s true the NCAA protects its largest assets, this isn’t choosing to punish kU’s infractions vs Mizzou’s rogue tudor. This is Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, etc against the survival of the tiers below, which comprises probably 90% of the sport.
As terrible as the NCAA is, I’m confident there will be larger adjustments made to both the Portal and NIL in the near future. Not only is this going to dilute the coaching pool (what coaches anymore are going to want to deal with recruiting their entire roster plus their usual every year and deal with all this NIL stuff vs jumping to the NFL, if that option exists for them?) this is going to diminish viewership and alienate “average Joe fanbases”.
Nothing will stop back-channeling, tampering and cheating, but we will see a salary cap of sorts in CFB sooner than later. What that looks like? I have no idea. But this business model simply doesn’t make sense, nor does this current landscape of the TP/NIL do anything to better the overall product of CFB/CBB.
I’m not sure I’ll ever enjoy college sports the way I used to but I think the observation period for NCAA leadership and conference commissioners is coming to a close and changes to help control the madness are on the horizon. Increase in the number of assistant coaches, salary cap, and overall structure of NIL will all, IMO, have changes made soon to try and keep fanbases like Mizzou’s engaged.
And if not, college sports is going to lose a LOT of fans.
