NCAA FOOTBALL 2024

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8:07p, 12/23/24
Reports are saying that Tulane's QB has been offered $8,000,000 (NIL money) to transfer to Duke! EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS!

College athletics are being destroyed right under our noses. The NCAA is a failed organization. It's all about the money now.
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9:13p, 12/23/24
Agreed.
Why don't they just allow the top 30-40 programs with all the money and following to start their own Super conference. They can pay them like pros and change the rules to allow them to play "college" football for 10 years. Then have a 32 team Championship playoff each year.
Then perhaps the rest of the college football world could return to some semblance of what it is supposed to be about.
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In reply to SFA Jack Fanatic • 11:10p, 12/23/24
Got to do something to stop Belichek.
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In reply to SFA Jack Fanatic • 1:54a, 12/24/24
SFA Jack Fanatic said:
Reports are saying that Tulane's QB has been offered $8,000,000 (NIL money) to transfer to Duke! EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS!

College athletics are being destroyed right under our noses. The NCAA is a failed organization. It's all about the money now.


This is what happens when they just allowed it with virtually no rules in place. And now it's likely too late. They can't take it away now. Any limitations put on it will be met with resistance by the athletes.

The kids deserved some kind of compensation. But some kind of limit should've been imposed at the beginning so the playing field was even, or at least much more even.
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9:27p, 1/6/25
NDSU wins their 10th FCS championship beating undefeated Montana State.
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In reply to nacluth • 9:34p, 1/6/25
Wow. Just wow. I only wish SFA would make a full commitment to football OR drop and apportion any additional resources to basketball and baseball.
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In reply to nacluth • 11:53p, 1/6/25
nacluth said:
NDSU wins their 10th FCS championship beating undefeated Montana State.


10 titles in 14 years. It's got to be nice to expect a national title every year no matter the coach or player turnover. Their FBS game usually isn't even in question either since they have a winning record be the FBS.

It's more than just going all in on football too. Those northern midwest FCS teams have the market cornered. No close FBS programs. High school football isn't as big up there as it is here. Going to a NDSU home game for the residents of Fargo is like going to Texas vs Georgia. It's the biggest thing in that entire area of the country.

That kind of environment and tradition of winning, along with that area being woefully under recruited, gives them every advantage in the world when it comes to building a consistent winning program.

Maybe one day….

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7:27a, 1/7/25
There need to be contracts signed, between players and institutions on these deals, basically players can walk away with the money and not full fill anything, there will be donor fatigue as this continues to grow.
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In reply to SFAXE93 • 7:33a, 1/7/25
SFAXE93 said:
There need to be contracts signed, between players and institutions on these deals, basically players can walk away with the money and not full fill anything, there will be donor fatigue as this continues to grow.


Contracts can't be signed because players aren't employees. Regardless of the technicalities and everything, they're students who happen to also be athletes at the end of the day.

The second they sign any kind of contract they become professional players. The only thing I could see being plausible is adding restrictions such as limiting the amount of "free" transfers every player can use without losing eligibility. Say give them 1 or at most 2 free transfers before they have the revert back to the old rule of sitting a year.

Then again without the transfer portal we don't get the best QB SFA has seen since Jeremy Moses(and potentially the best QB ever).

It's a sticky situation. The problem with the portal and the NIL is that too much freedom was given from the get go. It should have been give a little at first, and then feel it out. The NCAA gave absolute freedom right away. Taking anything away will be harder than anything.
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In reply to SFASawmillGuy • 11:00a, 1/7/25
SFASawmillGuy said:
SFAXE93 said:
There need to be contracts signed, between players and institutions on these deals, basically players can walk away with the money and not full fill anything, there will be donor fatigue as this continues to grow.


Contracts can't be signed because players aren't employees. Regardless of the technicalities and everything, they're students who happen to also be athletes at the end of the day.

The second they sign any kind of contract they become professional players. The only thing I could see being plausible is adding restrictions such as limiting the amount of "free" transfers every player can use without losing eligibility. Say give them 1 or at most 2 free transfers before they have the revert back to the old rule of sitting a year.

Then again without the transfer portal we don't get the best QB SFA has seen since Jeremy Moses(and potentially the best QB ever).

It's a sticky situation. The problem with the portal and the NIL is that too much freedom was given from the get go. It should have been give a little at first, and then feel it out. The NCAA gave absolute freedom right away. Taking anything away will be harder than anything.
In my opinion the minute they take $ they become professional players.
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7:44p, 1/7/25
Wow, QB TJ Finley now onto a 5th program in his 6th year.

LSU (2020) - Auburn (2021-2022) - Texas State (2023) - Western Kentucky (2024) - Tulane (2025)

With the pay and years some of these players get, you really can now have a career in college sports.

I'm hearing 5 years of eligibility will be the new norm, which will probably lead at some point to no eligibility requirements at all in the future.


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In reply to SFAXE93 • 7:58a
SFAXE93 said:
Wow, QB TJ Finley now onto a 5th program in his 6th year.

LSU (2020) - Auburn (2021-2022) - Texas State (2023) - Western Kentucky (2024) - Tulane (2025)

With the pay and years some of these players get, you really can now have a career in college sports.

I'm hearing 5 years of eligibility will be the new norm, which will probably lead at some point to no eligibility requirements at all in the future.




Tbf being a college athlete is probably infinitely more fun than being a professional athlete. Outside of working with the SFA athletes, I've seen plenty of videos detailing the lives of college athletes and professional athletes and at bigger programs it almost seems like things take a step back in terms of quality of life when they go pro.

At major programs, college athletes are treated like kings. World class facilities, food, nutrition, spas, travel, housing. All provided by the university free of cost.

In the pros they often have to pay out of pocket for the same treatment. Some things are obviously provided. But not as much.

If you could indefinitely live in leisure like that as well as live the life of the most popular college student on campus, why wouldn't you?
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