News: Parsons: 'College football is a joke'

College football has basically devolved into immediate transfer availability through the transfer portal and bidding wars on NIL contracts for most of the better players.

Whichever universities can navigate that type of environment most consistently will likely remain relevant.
 
Praxit said:
what...!!! they paying college players money to play ball?
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Yes. They have to. The supreme court ruled it was unconstitutional to restrict the players ability to earn money off their play and likeness.

Which was the correct decision.


College football just needs to design a better system than the current haphazard one they have now.
 
This is good. It shows the NFL teams how you will act when you're not happy with your contract in the NFL.
 
blueblood70 said:
Here's the thing,

if that were totally true and I realized they can't pay them directly, but I believe the colleges are getting the money in a pool, and they're the ones who are paying a large number of players that they decide who gets what...

I feel like somehow this is set up like a trust fund or an estate and you have the person who is in charge of the trust and the estate and they dole out the money on a case by case basis besides any monthly payments that go to these trusts beneficiaries...

Common sense says, in this situation if Tennessee has no hit from this like literally this is not coming out of their money, then why is he transferring??​
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if this is all about direct money from sponsors and whatever where the money is coming from boosters outside sources why does he need to transfer why in the world is he telling the college he needs more money or I'm leaving instead why isn't his boosters wouldn't it be similar booster type money outside money if they were already paying him wouldn't they just pay more or he can find more endorsements?​

Again, I realized the rules are colleges can't pay directly but I think somehow, they do decide how much of it goes to each individual player like out of a big pool or like they're acting in some cases of middle person as far as decisions being made.

By all means make it make sense I'm a person who only sits from common sense ,

why would he have to leave the college if that's not where the money's coming from, or if that's not where the money's being diverted from, would be a better word..

I mean this simply he wants more money he could just ask for it from other endorsements and boosters or the ones that are already paying him could pay him more ....hmmm


I don't get it it has to be somehow tied to the college or they wouldn't keep transferring these transfer protocols yes a lot of it was for playing time it all began when guys are sitting too long and they want to move or for some reason they no longer. Can or wanna be there anymore like they transferring for a personal reason be closer to their family or whatnot go back to their home state who knows I realized the transfer protocol was created for that very reason....​

But in this case if money is not coming from the school why is he threatened to transfer why did the school not retain his rights they could have just went out and told other endorsers or boosters to give him more money... if it didn't come out of their budgets what does it matter? I don't get it someone's going to have to explain this to me it's new to all of us...
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Nope. That is illegal.
 
kskboys said:
Sounds like you're anti-freedom.
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It's all in the way the league is legally structured, as an entity serving 32 different ownerships. It seems to me the NFL is more like a large company with 32 different divisions or locations.

If I decided that I wanted to go work for Microsoft rather than another company, do I have the right to tell Microsoft exactly where I want to work? If I didn't like the location then I have the freedom to go work for a different company

If a football player decides that he wants to play in the NFL, then why should he have the right to determine the team, especially when he is going to be paid in hundreds of thousands to millions a year? If he doesn't like the team assigned then he has the freedom to go play for another league.

Again, it comes down to the way the league is legally structured. However, the inter-league competition to sign players has caused the player's salaries to increase to the point where it can become a detriment to the players and their futures.

There are many players that come from backgrounds where money was scarce. They never had to worry about how to spend a great deal of money, they didn't have much. They would dream about all the things they would do for their families without frame of reference for the true value of money.

Athletes rarely consider the length of their success. They are young and sometimes behave as if it will last forever. as such, they rarely consider life after football.

This is why professional sports should never b e considered a career. Again, the average length of playing in the NFL is three and a half years. This is where a degree comes in to play. It addresses the other forty six and a half years of their working life.

Playing in the NFL should be seen as a great opportunity to continue playing the game you love while starting your adult life out with a financial advantage to complement the training and education you received in college.

Less than 10% of NFL players are in the league for more than 8 years.

Where is the freedom for the other 90% in being back exactly where you and your family were before graduating high school?

Require a degree before allowing entry into the draft and NFL. This will never happen but it should.

Pay the college athletes with something far more valuable than cash at the age of 19. Give them a quality education with a college degree for their sake.

Otherwise, college football is a deception, a lie.....a joke.
 
fivetwos said:
Right. As explained, I don’t claim to be well versed on the subject, but one would have to assume that the reason for the implementation was to prevent corruption. I could be wrong.

If not, then why has it been put in place?

Should they be compensated? Yeah I suppose, to a degree, but where are the limits? These dudes are like free agents out there.
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it was put into place because they've been exploited for the entirety of college football, and they finally addressed it. these schools are making hundreds of millions of dollars off the players, and not only were they not compensated, but rules were in place to prevent any compensation. it's nuts. like why should the coach make 10 mil a year, but the players get ... nothing?
 
blueblood70 said:
Is he even any good I don't even know who this guy is never heard of him?
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He's not too bad but he isn't all that great either. Hasn't proven he can win in the playoffs yet. Honestly, I don't know what his record is but he still has a ways to go when it comes to maturity. 4mil a year. Crap, that's more than some backups make in the nfl.
 
Proof said:
it was put into place because they've been exploited for the entirety of college football, and they finally addressed it. these schools are making hundreds of millions of dollars off the players, and not only were they not compensated, but rules were in place to prevent any compensation. it's nuts. like why should the coach make 10 mil a year, but the players get ... nothing?
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Agree with your overall point. That’s always been a problem, but Im not sure the current system is an optimal solution.

I don’t think that some players should get millions and most others nothing. Players transferring for more money seems off, and not a real way to fix corruption.

There’s gotta be a better way. Maybe something like every scholarship player gets a stipend that’s capped at a figure around 100k annually, and bring back having to sit out a year if you transfer. Maybe bonuses for Bowl wins? I dunno.

Again I agree with your point, and these guys should not be starving while the school capitalizes off them and generates millions…but anyone that would command big dollars under this system more than likely has a pro career ahead of them. College provides an avenue to make that happen.

The system was flawed before no doubt, but I don’t think it was fixed with what’s going on now.
 
The thing is not all college universities are making billons of dollars a year, so they are basically reducing the Haves to maybe 10 teams who can realistically compete for a National Champioship year in and year out, although this may be the case anyway, but at least there was hope for these mid-level schools.

Now If you develop a superstar at the mid-level school you can probably kiss him goodbye for the next season.
 
fivetwos said:
Agree with your overall point. That’s always been a problem, but Im not sure the current system is an optimal solution.

I don’t think that some players should get millions and most others nothing. Players transferring for more money seems off, and not a real way to fix corruption.

There’s gotta be a better way. Maybe something like every scholarship player gets a stipend that’s capped at a figure around 100k annually, and bring back having to sit out a year if you transfer. Maybe bonuses for Bowl wins? I dunno.

Again I agree with your point, and these guys should not be starving while the school capitalizes off them and generates millions…but anyone that would command big dollars under this system more than likely has a pro career ahead of them. College provides an avenue to make that happen.

The system was flawed before no doubt, but I don’t think it was fixed with what’s going on now.
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yeah, there's obviously a ton that can be changed to optimize it, i was just generally curious how corruption tied in. all good.
 
mrmojo said:
The thing is not all college universities are making billons of dollars a year, so they are basically reducing the Haves to maybe 10 teams who can realistically compete for a National Champioship year in and year out, although this may be the case anyway, but at least there was hope for these mid-level schools.

Now If you develop a superstar at the mid-level school you can probably kiss him goodbye for the next season.
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Being a fan of Georgia Tech, I know they will never repeat the 1990 split Championship, but at least hope they compete for the ACC championship here and there and be ranked in the 20-25 range/

I got why J. Gibbs left for Bama under Coach Collins as it was a train wreck here. But it does stink seeing guys leave for the bigger schools once they have a good year, even when the team does well. Either for a bump in NIL pay or more national exposure. And it seems like with so many transfer portals especially during the bowl season it's a glorified game for the future unless the team makes the playoffs.

As long as Oregon has Phil Knight pumping millions in their program, they can always try to buy a championship, for example.

I'm glad players can get paid, but the NCAA sure as hell is slow on setting up guidelines/rules. Just big schools scooping up talent with huge NIL budgets.
 
Micah basically benched himself in California to prepare for the NFL Draft.
He is the Jerry Jones of NFL players.
 
jterrell said:
Micah basically benched himself in California to prepare for the NFL Draft.
He is the Jerry Jones of NFL players.
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Not true. His team announced there would be no season. So, he got an agent and took money to prepare for the NFL. Then his school said "PSYCH, we're having a season after all. " It was too late for Micah. He didn't "bench himself".

And Penn St is in Pennsylvania. Not sure what you mean by the California reference.
 
Micah needs to ****. So sick of this mama's boy with no father figure running his mouth every two seconds. You can tell this guy was not raised by a man.

You know what's a joke is today's athletes like him that have podcasts/social media and then don't show it in the biggest games of his career.
 
fivetwos said:
I don’t at ALL see how introducing millions of dollars available to give to players supposedly REDUCES corruption.

Doubtful. Probably much worse. Maybe someone can offer a side I’m not seeing.

The gap between the ‘haves and have nots’ continues to widen.

I don’t really follow college sports but it does seem as if many, many of them…in football and basketball…transfer from school to school as if they are pro free agents on one year deals.
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I was 100% in favor of these kids getting paid. The universities are making huge money on these kids backs.

That said, just set up a standard max pay structure per position. Not necessarilya cap, but a mandated limit per position so that we can avoid a lot of situations like this.

You want to compensate them but you also want them to continue to push for the league and a bigger pay day. That is, if we are looking out for the best interest of the sport.
 
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