College Football is always changing and in the era of the transfer portal, it’s changing for the worst, snubbing high school athletes across the nation to be left out of opportunities.
With the retirement of the University of Alabama’s head football coach, the legendary Nick Saban, many Alabama players felt they had to enter the transfer portal including multiple key players for the Alabama Crimson Tide.
The key players the Tide lost are Caleb Downs, the 2023 SEC freshman of the year, and All American entered the transfer portal along with the number one quarterback recruit in the class of 2024, Julian Saiyen.
The list goes on, including, starting offensive tackle Kayden Procter, and wide receiver Isaiah Bond per 24/7 Sports. These are just the key players but there are so many more.
With the recent hiring of Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer to replace Saban you would think some Washington players would transfer in.
A key player was former Mississippi State quarterback Will Rogers per 24/7 sports. Rodgers entered the portal and came to Washington before they went to the National Championship but when DeBoer left for the Alabama job Rodgers re-entered the portal looking to transfer to Alabama.
Then in a strange turn of events he pulled his name from the transfer portal to stay in Washington. The portal is getting out of hand with more than a thousand players entering the portal per ESPN before 2024. This is taking away opportunities for high school athletes. Instead of college coaches developing young players will just take a transfer from the portal.
Florida State and the University of Tennessee have been punished and suspected of NIL violations per ESPN and CBS Sports. A Florida State assistant coach was given a three-game suspension for offering Georgia transfer Amarius Mims $15,000/month to come play for the Seminoles.
That is a serious amount of cash considering he’s only an assistant coach but it didn’t pay off for the Seminoles because Mims didn’t end up coming and the Seminoles coach is now paying for it.
Tennessee is suspected of NIL violations, particularly around quarterback Nico Lamaleava per CBS Sports. They are also suspected of many other NIL violations and are under investigation for multiple violations over the past couple of years as well. The fact that the NCAA even tries to investigate these violations is laughable because every major college football program is probably doing these types of things to get major recruits.
The NCAA is suffering the consequences of not setting basic regulations that apply to all Colleges before making NIL official instead it varies by the state’s laws per NCSA. The landscape of college football has changed and with all these changes what does the future hold along with what will the NCAA do with all these changes?
