2025 Transfer Portal

[BoredIrish]

Maybe Nico was one of the 4?

It could also be that ND didn't reach out to the QB's but that they are reaching out to ND to create leverage.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Cap doesn't cause cheating, it will cause parody while certainly regulating a market.

Tax will eliminate cheating and ruin parody, but can regulate a market because there's a punishment attached to it for buying the top earners.

Teams like Notre Dame will follow a cap and the SEC will go back to paying players under the table on top of spending to the cap.
They've been illegally paying players for decades, what makes you think the conference would stop because of a cap?

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

The current system is our best chance at winning in decades especially as a "honorable" program that doesn't renege on NiL promises.
Honestly, I don't even want contracts because the majority of our players come to Notre Dame for the right reasons and are less likely to jump ship.

 

[ndfanatic78]

Teams like Notre Dame will follow a cap and the SEC will go back to paying players under the table on top of spending to the cap.
They've been illegally paying players for decades, what makes you think the conference would stop because of a cap?

I’ve seen this brought up but I believe the difference will be that if caught paying players additional funds under the cap by the university it will be criminally prosecutable. There will be subpoena and warrant ability where as the NCAA relied on cooperation by the university for investigations. I am not a lawyer in any way so if someone who is or has more legal experience wants to chime in please do.

Beyond that players will still be able to have NIL outside of the cap that any university can use to get additional funds to the players so any school will be able to take advantage of that who has the donors willing to pay or the name that advertisers will pay.

 

[Irish8248]

Teams like Notre Dame will follow a cap and the SEC will go back to paying players under the table on top of spending to the cap.
They've been illegally paying players for decades, what makes you think the conference would stop because of a cap?

I get the premise but what's stopping them from signing a kid to 8MM NIL and then paying him more under the table because they dont want the actual value to impact other negotiations?

This may he the best argument for a Cap + Tax like baseball. Teams still set the market rates, teams can try to buy their way into a NC with a significant financial penalty (Texas AM), and then help keep some form of parity (lol) with the teams who stay under the cap.

 

[IrishLax]

Cap will not work and should not happen. Capping revenue sharing direct from the school is fine, but any attempt to regulate endorsements/NIL will be a joke. There is no way to police 100+ schools and hundreds of thousands of boosters.

Simply put — the solution is a league where you must stay at your school for a minimum of two years after signing (or sit out a year if you transfer) + allow only one transfer + institute a firm 5 years of eligibility rule with no exceptions or waivers. The market will self-regulate if kids can only go in the portal once and have a strict clock on their eligibility.

 

[Huntr]

To be honest, I don't even know what the problem is that people are trying to fix.

 

[Irishdawg]

Cap will not work and should not happen. Capping revenue sharing direct from the school is fine, but any attempt to regulate endorsements/NIL will be a joke. There is no way to police 100+ schools and hundreds of thousands of boosters.

Simply put — the solution is a league where you must stay at your school for a minimum of two years after signing (or sit out a year if you transfer) + allow only one transfer + institute a firm 5 years of eligibility rule with no exceptions or waivers. The market will self-regulate if kids can only go in the portal once and have a strict clock on their eligibility.

This, plus the change of the transfer portal calendar. I’ve seen multiple suggestions from lat January after bowls so players can be with new teams for spring practice but this has issues with 2nd semesters (actual school) start dates. Or, just one transfer portal date on May but then new players miss out on spring practice. I know many people, coaches specifically, don’t like the current calendar. Thoughts?

 

[Irish8248]

Cap will not work and should not happen. Capping revenue sharing direct from the school is fine, but any attempt to regulate endorsements/NIL will be a joke. There is no way to police 100+ schools and hundreds of thousands of boosters.

Simply put — the solution is a league where you must stay at your school for a minimum of two years after signing (or sit out a year if you transfer) + allow only one transfer + institute a firm 5 years of eligibility rule with no exceptions or waivers. The market will self-regulate if kids can only go in the portal once and have a strict clock on their eligibility.

But that's kind of a pillar of why we are where we are... transfer rules were a joke and if a coach can leave on a drop of a dime then why does a kid have to stay there or lose out on eligibility? Take it a step further and now the kid risks losing out on eligibility and reduces their NIL ability because they can only "negotiate" once after HS.

Love it or hate it, NIL has at least made CFB stronger in the end because as kids jump to the NFL theres still a large pool of players who stay for that NIL paycheck that is more than the NFL pay structure. This is preventing CFB from being a minor league farm team with one star appearing every now and then.

I dont know the right answer lol, but they done fucked up and are trying to figure out how to stop it from imploding every single day haha.

 

[NDFAN2008]

They need to go back to having to sit out a year regardless. Only exception should be coaching change

 

[LifelongFan]

I will have problems when it starts hurting us more than helping, but right now we have massively benefitted from the portal and whatever is happening is good. I don't care much about the "state of the game" as long as games are watchable and ND is winning.

 

[ACamp1900]

They already got creative with cfb and we now have a cfb world that looks nothing like cfb 35 years ago,… they’ll have to do that again with enforcement. Idk what the fix is but maybe something where you have a collection of auburn graduates paid to work on bamas campus (or scum on tOSU, SCum on NDs etc, you get the point,… some kind of system where those keeping control WANT TO) with full access to recruiting records/budgets etc,… sounds wild but so did a 12 team playoff and a complete loss of regionality just a couple decades ago. Idk man, they’ll need to be both creative and heavy handed if they ever want any kind of control over this mess

 

[Dizzyphil]

They already got creative with cfb and we now have a cfb world that looks nothing like cfb 35 years ago,… they’ll have to do that again with enforcement. Idk what the fix is but maybe something where you have a collection of auburn graduates paid to work on bamas campus (or scum on tOSU, SCum on NDs etc, you get the point,… some kind of system where those keeping control WANT TO) with full access to recruiting records/budgets etc,… sounds wild but so did a 12 team playoff and a complete loss of regionality just a couple decades ago. Idk man, they’ll need to be both creative and heavy handed if they ever want any kind of control over this mess

There's no structure at all. Kids hitting the portal every year because they got their feelings hurt, not playing, etc.... there needs to be a SINGLE commissioner and I would go as far to say Saban would actually be a good start. I would pick him because he literally said one of his reasons for leaving because he knew the chaos was coming - welp, it's here.

 

[Rizzophil]

Cap will not work and should not happen. Capping revenue sharing direct from the school is fine, but any attempt to regulate endorsements/NIL will be a joke. There is no way to police 100+ schools and hundreds of thousands of boosters.

Simply put — the solution is a league where you must stay at your school for a minimum of two years after signing (or sit out a year if you transfer) + allow only one transfer + institute a firm 5 years of eligibility rule with no exceptions or waivers. The market will self-regulate if kids can only go in the portal once and have a strict clock on their eligibility.

That's way to simple. Makes to much sense.

 

[Irish4life]

Teams like Notre Dame will follow a cap and the SEC will go back to paying players under the table on top of spending to the cap.
They've been illegally paying players for decades, what makes you think the conference would stop because of a cap?

My understanding is that there will be a cap on revenue sharing directly from schools, but nothing on NIL collectives. So, in theory, ND could/would pay players directly AND have an NIL collective(s) doing what they're doing now.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

Cap will not work and should not happen. Capping revenue sharing direct from the school is fine, but any attempt to regulate endorsements/NIL will be a joke. There is no way to police 100+ schools and hundreds of thousands of boosters.

Simply put — the solution is a league where you must stay at your school for a minimum of two years after signing (or sit out a year if you transfer) + allow only one transfer + institute a firm 5 years of eligibility rule with no exceptions or waivers. The market will self-regulate if kids can only go in the portal once and have a strict clock on their eligibility.

Regulating payments to players …..This is exactly what NCAA was trying to do for ever.

 

[IrishLax]

But that's kind of a pillar of why we are where we are... transfer rules were a joke and if a coach can leave on a drop of a dime then why does a kid have to stay there or lose out on eligibility? Take it a step further and now the kid risks losing out on eligibility and reduces their NIL ability because they can only "negotiate" once after HS.

Love it or hate it, NIL has at least made CFB stronger in the end because as kids jump to the NFL theres still a large pool of players who stay for that NIL paycheck that is more than the NFL pay structure. This is preventing CFB from being a minor league farm team with one star appearing every now and then.

I dont know the right answer lol, but they done fucked up and are trying to figure out how to stop it from imploding every single day haha.

No different than signing a contract with an NFL team and then they fire the coach. If you're talking about direct compensation + revenue sharing from schools then the players can't be perma-free-agents.

 

[ACamp1900]

There's no structure at all. Kids hitting the portal every year because they got their feelings hurt, not playing, etc.... there needs to be a SINGLE commissioner and I would go as far to say Saban would actually be a good start. I would pick him because he literally said one of his reasons for leaving because he knew the chaos was coming - welp, it's here.

For sure. Like I said the fix (if there is one at all) will almost certainly have components that will show a current lack of imagination

 

[IrishLax]

There's no structure at all. Kids hitting the portal every year because they got their feelings hurt, not playing, etc.... there needs to be a SINGLE commissioner and I would go as far to say Saban would actually be a good start. I would pick him because he literally said one of his reasons for leaving because he knew the chaos was coming - welp, it's here.

Oliver Luck would be best commissioner IMO.

 

[Jeffwantpoppers]

Maybe Nico was one of the 4?

It could also be that ND didn't reach out to the QB's but that they are reaching out to ND to create leverage.

Yuck. Nico stinks

 

[Dizzyphil]

Oliver Luck would be best commissioner IMO.

That's a good one.

 

[ColinKSU]

Driskel is at the point of denying that ND is taking a portal QB that someone is going to look very bad after it’s all said and done.

 

[NDFAN2008]

Driskel is at the point of denying that ND is taking a portal QB that someone is going to look very bad after it’s all said and done.

Hope it’s him lol

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Driskel is at the point of denying that ND is taking a portal QB that someone is going to look very bad after it’s all said and done.

Driskell look bad? Based on his diet and exercise regimen, I don't think that'll matter much to him.

 

[NDWarrior]

You getting paid by the click? Clickity clacking your cup for these bullshit article?!???

It’s a recap of the ‘cuse bowl game so not sure what you’re talking about?

 

[ab2cmiller]

You getting paid by the click? Clickity clacking your cup for these bullshit article?!???

It’s a recap of the ‘cuse bowl game so not sure what you’re talking about?

I don't get it either. The link was to an AP article. Weird call out.

 

[NumbersGuy0520]

Not ND related per se but Tennessee is about to be going through it in the portal it would seem.

Top receiver is entering and Nico is apparently demanding more compensation or he’ll walk.

Nico I’mmaleaveuh

 

[jprue24]

To be honest, I don't even know what the problem is that people are trying to fix.

The answer is turning them into employees. Then there can be some of the controls that many people are talking about.

There is no stopping NIL. Being against NIL is, frankly, being against America.

 

[NDFAN2008]

Bradley Weaver DE from Ohio would be a nice grab just to have an extra guy had 8.5 sacks this year

 

[Pennick44]

The answer is turning them into employees. Then there can be some of the controls that many people are talking about.

There is no stopping NIL. Being against NIL is, frankly, being against America.

Huh?