Portal just seems like a crutch for coaches that don't wanna waste a year developing

[FeralDawg]

That is the situation Norvell was in at FSU when he arrived, and now it's a permanent solution just like at Colorado.
And don't tell me Bama isn't making hay off of a few guys from UGA too.
This transfer crap has got to be fixed. It can't be a every year situation.

[DawgWood]

to me it really diminishes recruiting and signing day also. Great class means less because you can turn your team over (good and bad) via the portal.

[Fetchin Bones]

something needs to change, but until then....we got the best roster manager/recruiter for a Head Coach.

[Toasty B]

I was kinda shocked when Andre B Ware was going off during BOWL season about NIL and free range transfer.  I was digging his take.

[FeralDawg]

Just drives me crazy that coaches (even at Bama) are waiting until we develop the fundamentals on a CB or SAFETY and put a year or 2 into
feeding, housing, weight room and teaching to even see if they are going to pan out and suddenly due to tampering and financial incentives
they are going somewhere else and we are playing catch up in a bidding war for the players we invested in.
Now indeed we are getting guys from the portal but that doesn't mean I am all crazy about that either. I heard a talking head say in an interview "why would anyone take a risk on a kid
coming out of HIGH school at WR when they can just wait to see if he has potential and offer him a higher NIL than what he's getting?" Sad state, iyaFD.

[DawgNatty]

Many of us have talked about this for a while. CFB as we know it, and have known it, will barely exist in 4-5 years. There's no way to push this baby back in now. Kids will lawyer up and sue over the tiniest thing. Once they started getting paid, their employees and no longer doing it for the love of the game. Hell, don't get me wrong...there are a FEW that still do. But, these are now paid professionals...subject to the treatment that comes with that.

My good buddy Gulfport posted a few weeks ago "These are 18-20 yo kids"...nah, not anymore. These are, in many cases, well-paid professionals asking for more every day. You can't have it both ways.

[ugafan49]

Something has to change, its crazy, 4 sure. i dont like it.

[McDonoughDawg]

D Natty is right, no putting the Genie back in the bottle.

[JC-DAWG83]

18-20 year olds can vote, sign legally binding contracts, borrow money, be arrested, tried and convicted in the adult judicial system and do everything else full grown adults can do (except buy alcohol which I think is ridiculous).  They are in no way "kids" and if they weren't playing college football they would be expected to either be furthering their education, at their own expense, or have a job and support themselves.  I've said for a while now, since they are getting paid to play football, when they don't play well they are subject to being booed and openly criticized for not doing the job they are paid to do.  I think the portal should be open for players and coaches to decide who goes in it.  If a recruit doesn't pan out as expected, the coach should be able to inform him he is being put into the portal and wish him luck.

College football as we knew it is dead and gone.

[DawgNatty]

18-20 year olds can vote, sign legally binding contracts, borrow money, be arrested, tried and convicted in the adult judicial system and do everything else full grown adults can do (except buy alcohol which I think is ridiculous).  They are in no way "kids" and if they weren't playing college football they would be expected to either be furthering their education, at their own expense, or have a job and support themselves.  I've said for a while now, since they are getting paid to play football, when they don't play well they are subject to being booed and openly criticized for not doing the job they are paid to do.  I think the portal should be open for players and coaches to decide who goes in it.  If a recruit doesn't pan out as expected, the coach should be able to inform him he is being put into the portal and wish him luck.

College football as we knew it is dead and gone.
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All of this!!!!!   100%   Commitment works both ways.   

I get the old arguments, "the coach can leave and take a new job"..."these poor kids don't have money for a hamburger"  (we all know that one was BULLSHIT).     

I like the idea of the coaches putting them in the portal...kinda evens things up.   I think each kid should get ONE transfer...that's it!!  This going to a new school every year is total crap.  

Yeah, I don't boo UGA...but, I don't think it's out of bounds for folks to do so either anymore.  Comes with the territory.  (probably a bad look to recruits...but, whatever)

I'm the old man yelling "get off my lawn" here and I know it...but, these "kids" don't have a clue.