AlohaUte

Kinda disagree, NFL execs are generally smart and understand that there are no rules in CFB anymore. These kids didn’t sign contracts committing them to be there for 4 years and are now trying to break the contract. It’s completely apples and oranges from the NFL.

Honestly, this is a naive sentiment in today’s age of CFB. It’s a nice statement and mentality but if you live and die by that and don’t let players come back after entering the portal, you are shooting yourself in the foot. Once you’ve committed for the season though, I’m with you 100%.

Well, yes big $$$ has played a role, but what really drove it were impactful court decisions that basically neutered the NCAA. Those court rulings had a far bigger impact on the current state of college sports than anything else.

I’ve decreased my CFB watching considerably. I still watch the Utes religiously. But beyond that it’s just parts of games here or there and I’m on a personal Big10 and SEC boycott.

I don’t disagree with your whole post, much I do agree with. But take a chill pill, we’ve had one bad year in 20. It shocks me how quickly Ute fans became like Ohio State fans.

I hate this argument so much. You act like the kids were slaves and got nothing out of it. I would have loved to have had free tuition, room and board, meals, prioritized housing, paid for tutoring, etc. Players who played at Duke or Stanford or any private school (and heck many top public schools now) made well over 100K to play football in just…[Read more]

This is the constant, I guess, shame or dilemma of sports. I mean Juan Soto just got $750m to play baseball. How perverse is that? Sports are important to our culture and society and they play a healthy role as a stress outlet for us. So they are not meaningless, but it is perverse that people are paid so much to do it. But that’s market…[Read more]

I’m sure it helps that we have his coach and they seemed to succeed from each other, but we’ll still need to offer some major NIL money, especially if the demand for him is such as it seems to be. We are not guaranteed to get him by any means.

That’s what it eventually will be, but it’s not possible right now because the players have no power or say. The courts will never enforce such contracts (hence why the restrictions on transferring were killed by the courts) because the players are not represented or “fairly compensated”. So the only way for that to happen is that the players…[Read more]

This is modern CFB. It sucks. We needs a few billionaire funders.

Man, this one hurts. Bummer.

Essentially you need to give the players the power to collectively bargain, i.e. a players union.

Right now e are in the wild west. It’s only going to be this way for a short time. Sometime soon players will be paid employees and will need to sign contracts.

Essentially you need to give the players the power to collectively bargain, i.e. a players union.

Right now e are in the wild west. It’s only going to be this way for a short time. Sometime soon players will be paid employees and will need to sign contracts.

This is an unhinged comment. You think this is the most egregious and first major pay-to-play recruit? What world have you been living in for then last 3-4 years?

As long as it’s not Church money being used at BYU – and it’s not – then more power to them. Rumor has it that there are multiple billionaires supporting BYU basketball. There’s nothing hypocritical about it whether from the Church or from BYU.

Someone who is not in the program yet. I’m sure we’ll add at least two RBs from the portal.

Key word there is “healthy”. I’m not sure his horrific knee injury can be recovered from enough to be a peak FBS college football QB.

Also, I saw enough raw talent, particularly arm strength, from Isaac to see his potential in CFB. He can be a great QB but is soooo raw. I could see him getting picked up from multiple P5 schools.

I do think that if Utah wanted him back (and who knows if he entered the portal on his own volition or if Beck asked him to leave), his best place…[Read more]

Meh, don’t really care what he does. Pretty decent chance he’ll be a cancer whereever he lands. Reminds me a lot of Tuttle.

What a weird opinion to have about Whit. He’s been successful for 20 years and you just think he’s all the sudden a complete failure and incapable of reviving the program? Strange.