(02-02-2020 02:45 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(02-02-2020 01:56 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-02-2020 01:47 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(02-02-2020 05:58 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  As long as a school can only commit to a player for a year via a one year and can evaluate whether they want to renew his schollie every year, the player should be able to do the same.

Kind of a straw man argument. The school cannot pull a scholarship during the year. The player can transfer anywhere they want---they just cant play football for a the first year there. Both sides have restrictions.

I worded my statement so poorly I'm surprised anyone understood it, LOL, but several seemed to.

Anyway, I don't see equal restrictions. Yes, the school has to commit a scholarship for a full year, but so what? It's not like the typical school wants to pull it after 4 months or 8 months or whatever so that's basically not a restriction that rubs any school the wrong way.

But a player having to sit out a year is potentially a very big deal to them, huge in terms of their progression. It has created a situation where in the vast majority of the cases, schools can easily get rid of players they don't want, but players have a much harder time getting rid of a school they don't want. So I'm comfortable with my point, LOL, and the details you mention about 85 schollies and the like can be worked out.

I dont see it as being different at all. The school has to pay for a scholarship even if a player turns out to be a bust. Heck, players redshirt and transfer all the time---having never played one snap for the school. When it comes to the ability to transfer, both sides have skin in the game.

That said, even if we assume you are 100% right and Im 100% wrong---my point is really that changing the rule will have a ton of unintended consequences that need to be carefully offset. For instance, I think they need to look at adjusting the 25 scholarship cap in a way that allows it to fluctuate to reflect the number of transfers leaving a program. Otherwise, programs can end up being gutted without having a way to ever really recover that depth.

Well you are 100% wrong. It is very tilted to the schools.

And if they have already redshirted, they lose a year of eligiblity by transferring.

There definitely could be unintended consequences. But you've got players gaming the system now. Justin Fields got his year waived by claiming he was afraid to stay at Georgia because of racism (a baseball player-who lost his scholarship-yelled when UGA was way ahead-"let the N play!") despite the fact that his sister is staying at Georgia. There are similar cases of ridiculous claims to get the year waived. Some want to transfer because of sick family. And its random whether they get that waiver or not. I've seen a real case denied because a jerk coach fights it.

The schools have all the power. Yes there may be unintended consequences. But there is a basic unfairness now.

There already is free agency for 5th year QBs. They get their degree and go where they want. Wake Forest's QB is heading to Georgia. The last 3 Heisman winners have been transfers. And none of them would have won if they didn't transfer.