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Valid point that will have to be weighed against the level of coaching and the facilities available to develop them at the juco. They will not have the same level of fitness training and access to nutrition programs. But I believe you're correct in that sum will take that route to try and develop themselves.

First player with "new" eligibility hits the portal

Looks like the NCAA is granting a waiver https://www.on3.com/news/ncaa-makes-major-eligibility-rule-change-for-2025-2026-season-following-diego-pavia-ruling-files-appeal/

What makes this even more difficult to project is the next portal window (April 16–25, 2025), when Power conference schools go all out to poach the G6 talent they need to fill their backup spots.

If you wanna talk quality wins the same could be said about Texas this year. You can almost count on the fact until there are 5 teams from the SEC and five teams from the Big Ten those two conferences will not be happy. The other two slots could be left for Notre Dame and one other team.

As long as Coach Prime is there, he will continue to recruit top 10 QBs, so that's a great point about going to most likely be a backup.

I absolutely hate the thought that players who went to junior colleges will now most likely not have that eligibility count against them or at least take part of it, but I also believe as screwed up as the NCAA is, they won't be able to challenge this at this time. So, do any of our players have potential remaining eligibility? Are there any additional players, for example, from Sam Houston, that the coaches coming over could try to bring in that had Juco experience? I would also expect NAIA players to jump on this bandwagon quickly.

In some cases, it is very obvious who is at "fault", while at other times, there is plenty of blame to spread around. I do enjoy your fallback of corporate greed when it seems pretty amazing that whenever a corporation or industry is suffering severely and losing money most people don't seem as concerned. If you favor corporations sharing their profits(And I'm not saying that's wrong I'm in agreement with it), Do you also believe that those employees should take pay cuts when the corporations are not doing well and losing money? Or is it only a one-way street? So yes, many of the institutions are greedy as hell and have screwed this up, but we have also come up with a way of acting like the value of a scholarship and a free education and all of the perks athletes get should somehow not be considered in the way they are compensated. This entire situation is screwed up between the NCAA, players, and the court systems that got involved. But we also have the game to where we're calling this profit sharing which is just about as much of sharing profit as in IL was about name image and likeness when it was actually about pay to play. I agree there's a lot that can be done, but please explain to me how you have profit sharing when the majority of the institutions are probably losing money, especially if you take away the mandated student fees.

Is this binding for any specific period of time, or could they still go elsewhere until they start classes?

How sad that due to the NIL and transfer portal, we cannot truly enjoy signing a young man who has just had an incredible season. Most assume that if he comes in and does well, he will be gone before he has even dressed out for his first practice. Sorry, but not sure how beneficial it is to recruit HS QBs anymore and spend the time developing them.

So very true. I guess they use the same financial model as the WNBA. At least in "professional" sports they have salary control and caps. I am not faulting the players, but at some point, all sides are going to have to try and find a solution, or I don't see how many programs continue with football.

I absolutely hate this. Sorry but if you're going to have revenue sharing you should not be able to force any athletic fees on students.

Would be interested in seeing a breakdown of how graduation rates have gone up since the impact of COVID and more online classes. I would be interested in knowing what percent of classes are athletes taking online.

I think I saw him start posting recruiting for North Texas a week or so ago on X

Perhaps this comes as a surprise to you but coaches have been preparing for bowl games and recruiting for many years. Personally have no problem with the defensive staff at Sam Houston staying for the school's first bowl game even though many of them knew they were already coming here.

You do realize Cassity has been in town working with the team and just went back to coach the bowl game.

No doubt a lot of the institutions are very greedy but the players are doing their damned best to catch up on the great factor as quick as possible and they are making up for lost time. Say what you want about who's responsible, but when your transferring three to four times you are greedy. So you can blame everyone they are equally at fault but don't think for a minute that 90% of the players give a damn about what's best for the game just as the university presidents are hypocrites in the fact that they let this run so far out of whack.

I think having juco eligibility not count will be a bigger impact to FCS and division 2 schools that it will to G5 schools. I am more interested in seeing the impact with the NCAA considering reducing the number of players on a team from 120 to between 85-95. This might open up more opportunities at G5 schools for players who turn down scholarships at G5s to walk on a power programs. At the end of the day I hope something changes because having over half the programs in FBS basically turning over their rosters every year or so along with the top talent from FCS and D2 being pulled away is not good for the game of football. I'm just ready for the SEC and Big ten and maybe a few others to break off and then try to somehow re-engineer college football.

Over the past couple years since he's got here they have commented more than once that they kept track of this and discussed it with players. The problem is most players believe they will be the exception to the rule and that they are the ones that can make it at the next level.

Not trying to sound like too much of an ass, but I'm starting not to care how it impacts high school kids. Many of these are the same kids that you will give a chance to, and then they have a good season after one or two years and leave. So, if rightly so, they are looking after what is best for them, the Universities should be looking out for what's best for them and recruit players who are most ready to step on the field and help them play. PS also has an issue with some of these high school coaches who complain that colleges are not recruiting their kids as much but don't seem to want to bring up the fact that those same kids if they're given the opportunity, will leave a smaller school without hesitation if something better comes along for them.

I had heard one opinion that players whose eligibility ran out and are no longer in schools could have a recourse to try to regain some eligibility. This is freaking ridiculous.

This crap where a school signs agreements and then believe they should not be held accountable to him. With leadership like this is no wonder the NIL and everything associated with college football is going to hell.

So once again Trump makes a comment that gets people riled up and yet here we are now with the Canadian prime Minister on the verge of having to step down.

You would think. It's one thing to have supporters of other teams come on when we're about to play and mess with each other, but sadly, at a point a while back, the board managers decided to allow Trolls to come on and constantly put down UNT.