2024 Transfer Portal

[MuggsyB]

$1.4 Million for Roach to go to Baylor.

Jeesh.   

[MUDPT]

Jonas picked up a Crystal Bowel to Baylor as well. Visiting there on Saturday.

[tower912]

Paying players is no longer dirty.

[Uncle Rico]

Paying players is no longer dirty.

So much easier for Scott Drew to pay players outright now

[JakeBarnes]

Jonas picked up a Crystal Bowel to Baylor as well. Visiting there on Saturday.

So this is a bad week for Weezer blue album fans?

[GoldenEagles03]

So this is a bad week for Weezer blue album fans?

Any players in the portal from Beverly Hills?

[JakeBarnes]

Any players in the portal from Beverly Hills?

Either that or we go with the El Scorcho'd earth plan.

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

Undone deal? The sweater (song) vests won’t be pleased

[Johnny B]

Jeesh.

How long before the above average power conference starter makes a mill a year. Wtf is this: where is it going? where do we end up

[brewcity77]

How long before the above average power conference starter makes a mill a year. Wtf is this: where is it going? where do we end up

I think we're going to hit an apex and values will drop, probably sooner rather than later. The boosters paying for rosters at Indiana, Baylor, Texas, Ole Miss, and Maryland aren't spending to make a second weekend, they're spending for Final Four & National Championship appearances. And they won't all get that. Odds are none of them will even make the Final Four. How long will they keep throwing bad money after bad results? A few years? Sure, I'll buy that. But when programs get to 5, 10, or more years without any real success to show for their investments, those investments will stop.

[MuggsyB]

How long before the above average power conference starter makes a mill a year. Wtf is this: where is it going? where do we end up

I don't see it ending up in a good place. 

[MuggsyB]

I think we're going to hit an apex and values will drop, probably sooner rather than later. The boosters paying for rosters at Indiana, Baylor, Texas, Ole Miss, and Maryland aren't spending to make a second weekend, they're spending for Final Four & National Championship appearances. And they won't all get that. Odds are none of them will even make the Final Four. How long will they keep throwing bad money after bad results? A few years? Sure, I'll buy that. But when programs get to 5, 10, or more years without any real success to show for their investments, those investments will stop.

In a one and done tournament buying a F4 is impossible to guarantee.  But I don't think that will stop boosters for awhile. 

[Pakuni]

Either that or we go with the El Scorcho'd earth plan.

That might be a Perfect Situation.

[Herman Cain]

$1.4 Million for Roach to go to Baylor.

https://www.si.com/fannation/name-image-likeness/news/pest-control-brand-raid-signs-nil-deals-with-dukes-roach-and-baylors-littlepage-buggs-michael9

[4everwarriors]

NIL will be the ruination of college athletics. The rich will get richer and the rest, poorer, aina?

#huh?

[rocket surgeon]

NIL will be the ruination of college athletics. The rich will get richer and the rest, poorer, aina?

#huh?

  yup

waiting for the salary caps and "tax" imposed on those exceeding the cap.  next up, trade deadlines, et.al.   

gonna have to if they want to maintain their "amateur" status, eyn'a?

anyone hear wisco high schools want to get in to this NIL thingy?  I guess it's the "in" thing now.  might as well couple it with salary caps...

[brewcity77]

$1.4 Million for Roach to go to Baylor.

Roach himself said on social media the amounts reported are inflated.

[HowardsWorld]

I am looking at this more as a transition stage before the kinks get ironed out. Most likely in 5 years they will have figured out how to cap NIL deals or at the very least unionize so that each school has a cap. I am for the players making money for the amount of revenue they bring in for schools, tv, merch etc.

There's alot of people laughing at the Badgers for losing two starters and saying this just the new college basketball. If we would have lost Kolek or Oso or even Kam to the transfer portal this board would have been in meltdown mode. It will more than likely hit Marquette at sometime, hell most likely every team but it will be the death of college sports. It will also be the death of most mid majors ever have a chance to make a deep run as anytime someone whos not a senior has a good season they will take the best NIL deal at a major program. 

I for one absolutely hate the NIL and transfer portal but I believe it will get corrected in the next few years. I do think however this will lead to 3/4/5 star recruits accepting bench role at schools with higher NIL payments than getting playing time at a lower college.

[WhiteTrash]

Roach himself said on social media the amounts reported are inflated.

Kinda have to, when you only report $500k to the IRS.

[Uncle Rico]

NIL will be the ruination of college athletics. The rich will get richer and the rest, poorer, aina?

#huh?

Wow, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.  Hard to fathom in college athletics

[Uncle Rico]

I am looking at this more as a transition stage before the kinks get ironed out. Most likely in 5 years they will have figured out how to cap NIL deals or at the very least unionize so that each school has a cap. I am for the players making money for the amount of revenue they bring in for schools, tv, merch etc.

There's alot of people laughing at the Badgers for losing two starters and saying this just the new college basketball. If we would have lost Kolek or Oso or even Kam to the transfer portal this board would have been in meltdown mode. It will more than likely hit Marquette at sometime, hell most likely every team but it will be the death of college sports. It will also be the death of most mid majors ever have a chance to make a deep run as anytime someone whos not a senior has a good season they will take the best NIL deal at a major program. 

I for one absolutely hate the NIL and transfer portal but I believe it will get corrected in the next few years. I do think however this will lead to 3/4/5 star recruits accepting bench role at schools with higher NIL payments than getting playing time at a lower college.

It’ll certainly happen to Marquette at some point if things don’t change with regards to NIL and the portal.  No one will be immune.

As for Wisconsin, I read Jim Polzin’s piece this morning and there’s more at play.  He hinted at Chucky being unhappy this past year but thought after the Howard Moore game, he’d be back.

I also hold Gard responsible for some of this.  It was no secret to anyone that Storr was leaving.  We put the onus on Wojo for Hausergate, I’m not sure how bringing in Storr for a year and then losing him right away isn’t partly on Gard.  He had to have been pretty stupid not to know Storr was sniffing around other programs. 

[Pakuni]

Wow, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.  Hard to fathom in college athletics

Free markets are now bad?

[Uncle Rico]

I’ll also add, it was hilarious watching the Gard apologists carry the water for him yesterday, especially when Jared Berggren tweeted fans needed to donate to the Varsity Collective and the usual suspects agreed with him.

The university makes $80-$100 million off TV money and brags about their large alumni base and why athletes should get their degrees to take advantage of this but they need to ask the fans for money?  GTFOH.

[Uncle Rico]

Free markets are now bad?

This is way different.  The wrong people are getting paid. 

Isn’t the education enough?  Winning in the classroom is the ultimate goal, isn’t it?

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

  yup

waiting for the salary caps and "tax" imposed on those exceeding the cap.  next up, trade deadlines, et.al.   

gonna have to if they want to maintain their "amateur" status, eyn'a?

anyone hear wisco high schools want to get in to this NIL thingy?  I guess it's the "in" thing now.  might as well couple it with salary caps...

You can't impose a salary cap without a collective bargaining agreement. And you can't have a CBA unless they are employees and allow them to form a union.  And even then, how can you cap outside income?

And no one has had amateur status for awhile. If they ever did.