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Post by unafied on Apr 26, 2023 8:21:30 GMT -6
And she's basically a "local girl" doing this. Football, men's, and women's basketball lose their arguably best players in one athletic season. Folks can argue this is "good for the kids" all the way, but I can't say I'm having a good time. The ONLY two things I like about it, 1- coaches can leave on a better offer, so can the athlete now. 2- at least we can get some transfers. I think the NIL has more to blame with transferring now days. Grass is always greener. Until it aint. The logical side of me says the players should have the choice to go where they want. But I just don't see this completely unrestricted free agency being sustainable for the fans. Maybe I'm wrong and most people don't even pay attention to who the players on the court are. I actually wouldn't be that surprised. I think NIL is certainly a problem as well. The BIGGEST issue is the fact that both of these changes essentially happened at the same time and combine to make things worse. I actually do have some hope that eventually a lot of the "investors" will see what a terrible investment paying these kids actually is, and some of the negative effects are reduced. But as long as a player has the ability to put themselves in the portal and shop around for a better deal, we will likely continue to lose really good players that WE recruited and signed. UNA can't compete in that game.
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Post by brandon on Apr 26, 2023 9:08:14 GMT -6
The ONLY two things I like about it, 1- coaches can leave on a better offer, so can the athlete now. 2- at least we can get some transfers. I think the NIL has more to blame with transferring now days. Grass is always greener. Until it aint. The logical side of me says the players should have the choice to go where they want. But I just don't see this completely unrestricted free agency being sustainable for the fans. Maybe I'm wrong and most people don't even pay attention to who the players on the court are. I actually wouldn't be that surprised. I think NIL is certainly a problem as well. The BIGGEST issue is the fact that both of these changes essentially happened at the same time and combine to make things worse. I actually do have some hope that eventually a lot of the "investors" will see what a terrible investment paying these kids actually is, and some of the negative effects are reduced. But as long as a player has the ability to put themselves in the portal and shop around for a better deal, we will likely continue to lose really good players that WE recruited and signed. UNA can't compete in that game. I still think there should be stricter rules when it comes to all of this... NIL can and should be capped and regulated. The number of times you transfer should be limited. I say, you get two chances, first transfer is free... the next better have a good reason and should have nothing to do with not being happy. All of this has basically took the student out of student athlete. At the very least, I think, just like when a pro or a coach signs a contract, if it is not fulfilled, it should be payed back in some form. So if I sign you to a football scholarship, I'm expecting to have you for at least 4 years, if you transfer out after 1 year, you owe 3 years of scholarship money... that can come out of your NIL money whoever got you to transfer is giving you. But as it stands right now, I'm not getting too invested in who is on the teams anymore. It makes me not care.
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Post by unafied on Apr 26, 2023 9:39:23 GMT -6
The logical side of me says the players should have the choice to go where they want. But I just don't see this completely unrestricted free agency being sustainable for the fans. Maybe I'm wrong and most people don't even pay attention to who the players on the court are. I actually wouldn't be that surprised. I think NIL is certainly a problem as well. The BIGGEST issue is the fact that both of these changes essentially happened at the same time and combine to make things worse. I actually do have some hope that eventually a lot of the "investors" will see what a terrible investment paying these kids actually is, and some of the negative effects are reduced. But as long as a player has the ability to put themselves in the portal and shop around for a better deal, we will likely continue to lose really good players that WE recruited and signed. UNA can't compete in that game. I still think there should be stricter rules when it comes to all of this... NIL can and should be capped and regulated. The number of times you transfer should be limited. I say, you get two chances, first transfer is free... the next better have a good reason and should have nothing to do with not being happy. All of this has basically took the student out of student athlete. At the very least, I think, just like when a pro or a coach signs a contract, if it is not fulfilled, it should be payed back in some form. So if I sign you to a football scholarship, I'm expecting to have you for at least 4 years, if you transfer out after 1 year, you owe 3 years of scholarship money... that can come out of your NIL money whoever got you to transfer is giving you. But as it stands right now, I'm not getting too invested in who is on the teams anymore. It makes me not care. Actually I think once the COVID players have cycled out, the transfer rules will be more like you are asking for. The first one will still be free. After that, you have to sit out a year, unless you're a grad transfer. My biggest gripe is, the transfers always WERE free. You just had to sit a year. Which, to me was completely reasonable if we are still trying to claim these kids are "student athletes". Take a year to get settled in with your new team, learn the playbook, get your academics in order, etc. There was nothing unreasonable about that. I think instead of allowing a player to transfer with no sit-out year, they should've just allowed the sit-out year to not count against eligibility. That would have been a much better step than what we have now. But, all of this assumes the NCAA cares about academics, and when it comes down to it, they really don't.
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Post by unalions on Apr 26, 2023 9:54:01 GMT -6
Until UNA works with local businesses to provide real NIL deals to these players, the Lions athletics program is working on very different footing than the larger D1 schools.
This would have happened even worse in D2. UAH had the men’s hoops player of the year in the GSC and he just left for Auburn. Cha-ching!
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Post by roaringsince96 on Apr 26, 2023 15:27:36 GMT -6
Wow. I really thought she enjoyed owning all those records? Also I get wanting to be on a team where you win a game in a conference tournament and having the opportunity to play for something. Guess she didn’t feel that was going to happen at UNA.
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