Came here to say the same. The NCAA is run by a bunch of academics who know nothing about athletics or how to run an organization. Change happens at a snail's pace, and they still manage to screw everything up.
NCAA revenge
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One thought is to adjust it so the portal opens only after spring practice is over with.
1) Coaches wouldn't like it because they wouldn't get to see what would be their new kids in the spring....but that would be the same for every program.
2) Having the kids stay through the spring would help with clarification as to a kids decision as to whether they need to leave a school or not because they would have gone through spring practice.
3) While I have no major problem with the newly granted rights that kids have obtained I think they have far too many. It seems that they have more of them than NFL players do. They're getting paid now and some of the problems can be solved if things have more of a contractual spirit about them. In other words, kid #1 makes a decision to commit to a program. In turn that makes kid #2 who was considering going to that same program go somewhere else. Then a few months later kid #1 gets to change his mind and leaves. So a coach would have like to have had kid #2 instead. That sort of thing.
The kids just have too much leeway and since they're getting paid now they need a few more restrictions. Lots of rambling on here but those are thoughts anyway.
1) Coaches wouldn't like it because they wouldn't get to see what would be their new kids in the spring....but that would be the same for every program.
2) Having the kids stay through the spring would help with clarification as to a kids decision as to whether they need to leave a school or not because they would have gone through spring practice.
3) While I have no major problem with the newly granted rights that kids have obtained I think they have far too many. It seems that they have more of them than NFL players do. They're getting paid now and some of the problems can be solved if things have more of a contractual spirit about them. In other words, kid #1 makes a decision to commit to a program. In turn that makes kid #2 who was considering going to that same program go somewhere else. Then a few months later kid #1 gets to change his mind and leaves. So a coach would have like to have had kid #2 instead. That sort of thing.
The kids just have too much leeway and since they're getting paid now they need a few more restrictions. Lots of rambling on here but those are thoughts anyway.
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College players have the same "rights" as any other person in the workforce does in this country. The reason that NFL players have more restrictions is because they've collectively bargained those rights away, in exchange for roughly half of the revenue generated by the NFL. That hasn't happened in the NCAA.
It's a matter of perspective. Take sports out of the equation and suddenly all of these "rights", that you feel go too far, are just a given:
Employees quit any time they want with no notice. Imagine being told by your job that you're not allowed to quit until a specific time on the calendar.
Employees can take better offers from competitors if they choose.
Viewing things through the lens of "sports are special" is the reason things got to the breaking point, in the first place.
It's a matter of perspective. Take sports out of the equation and suddenly all of these "rights", that you feel go too far, are just a given:
Employees quit any time they want with no notice. Imagine being told by your job that you're not allowed to quit until a specific time on the calendar.
Employees can take better offers from competitors if they choose.
Viewing things through the lens of "sports are special" is the reason things got to the breaking point, in the first place.
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