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If they have no choice because it’s an NCAA rule (in theory), they would. As it stands, you have coaches like Jimbo who can leave whenever he wants with no reparations for the program, but of the program wants to move on from him, he gets $100m fully guaranteed or something close to that
Fair enough
I would be happy if NCAA uniformly enforced the rules it does have. Until it does that, new rules are meaningless. How about investigating recruiting violations? I will repeat this until something happens, how about some sanctions against ASU for glaring recruiting violations, on camera, on social media?
I've been looking, but at this stage they can't enroll until the end of the spring semester. So while there's got to be activity behind the scenes, I think they're focused an Feb 2nd signing day & prepping for spring ball. Additional transfers is somewhat back burner for the next week and they also want to see who becomes available via spring defections from other programs.
If the players expect to be paid while treating every offseason as free agency for themselves, I think it's absolutely fair for schools to also make "business decisions" every offseason on players by deciding who is delivering performance and potential enough along with the right attitude vs who is not. You can't have it both ways.
I personally send all official business communications via screenshots of the Notes app on Twitter with a misspelled word rate of 50%+ and hold all meetings via Instagram live stomping on various vendors’ apparel
x1000!!
He tells them that loyalty is not a one way street. That he'll keep his promises and expects them to keep theirs.
We don't have to be careful about anything because nobody who matters is paying attention to what a few Buff fans are saying on this site. The fact is that players are encouraged to find other opportunities all of the time and scholarships are renewed on a year-by-year basis and can be pulled in any given year. Schools do generally see them as a four to five year commitment to an athlete, which is a good thing, but that "we act in good faith" is not enough justification to treat college athletes as indentured servants the way they have been.
If I was Wisconsin, my pitch would be very simple: "Let me show you how we did as a team & the draft position it set up for Russell Wilson when he chose to transfer here."
That’s a tough sell when the main competition is Lincoln Riley having 2 Heisman trophy winners, another as a finalist, two #1 overall picks, and the other a 2nd rounder.
No one at his level who you'd want playing for you is concerned that there's anyone who would beat him out in a fair competition.
I was thinking about this a little more last night after talking to my FIL in Madison. Crazy to think this appears to be down to Wisconsin and USC for Caleb Williams and there really isn't anything you can point to that gives Wisconsin an advantage over USC when recruiting a QB.
Wisconsin can point to Russell Wilson as an example of a transfer who can perform in that offense and get noticed.
They can, but then Lincoln Riley points to Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray and Jalen Hurts in back to back to back seasons
Totally fair. I was just countering your point about Wisconsin's offense. Riley runs an offense that makes QBs stars without a doubt
Williams has seen Riley up close. He’s seen how he handled Spencer Rattler. There’s a very good chance he didn’t have the best experience with Riley this last year. Not saying that’s true but it’s certainly a possibility.
