Didn’t even watch. Between NIL and the transfer portal, I’m rapidly losing interest.
It’s amazing how many of the quarterbacks now play for two or even three teams during their college career now.
With the transfer portal, any pretense of an interest in a university education among college football players has evaporated, and with NIL financial support the NCAA has essentially warped into the minor league system for pro football (and pro basketball), with the Power 5 as the equivalent of baseball’s triple A teams.
The games at the top of the pack are exciting, but the system itself is corrupt as hell, which is to be expected as higher ed devolves to higher ed, inc - just another racket, fronted by DEI incompetents like Harvard’s plagiarist-in-chief.
I love the NIL and transfer portal, mostly because 4-5 star recruits who don’t get an opportunity to play at their first schools aren’t stuck on the bench for 2-4 years.
Before the transfer portal, the big powerful schools could very good to great players on their bench and not have to play against them at other schools.
NIL and the transfer portal as it currently exists is not going away. The U.S. Supreme Court made that a fact of life in their ruling on the NIL. It’s going to be impossible to prevent a player from going to another school if they can make more money. The lawsuits to fight any changes would be filed immediately.
When is the last time the NCAA won a law suit?