UNC basketball 2026 transfer portal

HeelInTheOzarks said:
I just don't see how this can continue without public multi year contracts the same way pro sports operates. The very top players are the only ones who will always benefit from the current wild west setup.
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That is where we are . The revenue college sports are NBA/NFL lite. It makes sense to go to negotiating multi year contracts.
 
I tend to agree. There must be some middle ground where players can be compensated for their NIL without unleashing entire roster free agency every off-season.

But the fact that there is effectively no one in charge of college sports creates a significant hurdle to reigning in the conferences towards a united path forward. Even these latest NIL rules are the result of court cases -- not a cohesive plan from the NCAA.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
I tend to agree. There must be some middle ground where players can be compensated for their NIL without unleashing entire roster free agency every off-season.

But the fact that there is effectively no one in charge of college sports creates a significant hurdle to reigning in the conferences towards a united path forward. Even these latest NIL rules are the result of court cases -- not a cohesive plan from the NCAA.
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I say let the pay go where the pay goes. Look what we pay for coaches
But having an annual free for all is not functional
 
Milk and Cookies said:
I tend to agree. There must be some middle ground where players can be compensated for their NIL without unleashing entire roster free agency every off-season.

But the fact that there is effectively no one in charge of college sports creates a significant hurdle to reigning in the conferences towards a united path forward. Even these latest NIL rules are the result of court cases -- not a cohesive plan from the NCAA.
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Everything is being run by judges who do not really understand antitrust law. I am also told that the NCAA lawyers were terrible.

But anyway, it appears that there can be no fix until Congress acts. Sigh.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
I tend to agree. There must be some middle ground where players can be compensated for their NIL without unleashing entire roster free agency every off-season.

But the fact that there is effectively no one in charge of college sports creates a significant hurdle to reigning in the conferences towards a united path forward. Even these latest NIL rules are the result of court cases -- not a cohesive plan from the NCAA.
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The NCAA is impotent but they are also an easy scapegoat because they act on behalf of the universities themselves. The schools all decided that they didn’t want the players to be employees, so now it’s a free for all shitshow. They are collectively the party that is ultimately at fault here imo.
 
OldWHEEL said:
Just don’t feel like colleges should be in the business of minor league sports. I’m not even sure if it’s helping the education budget anymore.
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They’ve been in that business since the 1950s - and really in that business since the 1980s. The players are now sharing in that business, which makes plausible deniability harder.
 
superrific said:
But anyway, it appears that there can be no fix until Congress acts. Sigh.
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It can start being fixed tomorrow if the schools will simply admit that the athletes are employees…but they refuse to do so.

Now they’re holding out hope that Congress will save them so they don’t have to make the athletes employees to create a better system.
 
Calheel said:
They’ve been in that business since the 1950s - and really in that business since the 1980s. The players are now sharing in that business, which makes plausible deniability harder.
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Should be club ball like in Europe and the rest of the free, developed world. Let colleges and Universities be academics, with their sports teams being intramural or recreational only. Let Club teams handle the “pro” sports teams. Ex.: Cambridge and Oxford have university football (soccer) teams, but they are recreational, not professional pathways. Serious players in England do not use university soccer as a career path; instead, they play for professional club academies or semi-pro clubs to get paid.

Baseball does it. MLB have their minor leagues and when a Madison Bumgarner comes down the pike he goes straight to the show.

Tennis and golf stars can go straight to the pro circuit out of HS if they’re good enough. They don’t have to do a one and done year at college if they don’t want to.

There are better ways of doing this than our current system. It is totally out of whack.
 
Centerpiece said:
Should be club ball like in Europe and the rest of the free, developed world. Let colleges and Universities be academics, with their sports teams being intramural or recreational only. Let Club teams handle the “pro” sports teams. Ex.: Cambridge and Oxford have university football (soccer) teams, but they are recreational, not professional pathways. Serious players in England do not use university soccer as a career path; instead, they play for professional club academies or semi-pro clubs to get paid.

Baseball does it. MLB have their minor leagues and when a Madison Bumgarner comes down the pike he goes straight to the show.

Tennis and golf stars can go straight to the pro circuit out of HS if they’re good enough. They don’t have to do a one and done year at college if they don’t want to.

There are better ways of doing this than our current system. It is totally out of whack.
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Like many things we do in America, the way we do it isn't because it is the best way of doing things. We do it that way because we we used to do it that way.

If we were building a minor league sports system from scratch, we wouldn't go through the universities. But that ship sailed long ago. Now, there are too many vested interests (not to mention multi-trillion dollar infrastructure investments) to just change course now.
 
Calheel said:
Like many things we do in America, the way we do it isn't because it is the best way of doing things. We do it that way because we we used to do it that way.

If we were building a minor league sports system from scratch, we wouldn't go through the universities. But that ship sailed long ago. Now, there are too many vested interests (not to mention multi-trillion dollar infrastructure investments) to just change course now.
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Exactly. “Should be” being the operative words in my comment.
The other important words in the statement include “totally out of whack.”
 
hedge said:
Fencing is killing us. Worst revenue:expense ratio on the board...
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In terms of accomplishments in competition it is rowing that is killing us . It used to be a club sport. I have argued that we should return rowing back to a club sport and establish a women's bowling program. NC A&T is a top 10-15 team year after year. Once the bowling is established we could contend for the NCAA championship year after year.
 
SnoopRob said:
It can start being fixed tomorrow if the schools will simply admit that the athletes are employees…
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No, that's just step 1. Step 2 would be recognizing a union and bargaining, but that would be an insane problem. It's hard enough to get one union and one league to agree. Now we have many different conferences, many different competitive levels, a huge number of players with potentially adverse interests, etc. Early attempts to unionize have been on a school-by-school basis, which is no way to do a collective bargaining agreement for Norris-Laguardia purposes (that's the antitrust exception for labor deals).

Congress has to fix it, or the courts could do their jobs but I don't see either happening any time soon.
 
Centerpiece said:
Should be club ball like in Europe and the rest of the free, developed world. Let colleges and Universities be academics, with their sports teams being intramural or recreational only. Let Club teams handle the “pro” sports teams. Ex.: Cambridge and Oxford have university football (soccer) teams, but they are recreational, not professional pathways. Serious players in England do not use university soccer as a career path; instead, they play for professional club academies or semi-pro clubs to get paid.

Baseball does it. MLB have their minor leagues and when a Madison Bumgarner comes down the pike he goes straight to the show.

Tennis and golf stars can go straight to the pro circuit out of HS if they’re good enough. They don’t have to do a one and done year at college if they don’t want to.

There are better ways of doing this than our current system. It is totally out of whack.
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The only reason players have to do one-and-done in college is the NBA. That's an NBA rule. They don't actually have to do that year in college (we've seen a few players try overseas and G-League Elite) but almost everyone chooses college.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
I tend to agree. There must be some middle ground where players can be compensated for their NIL without unleashing entire roster free agency every off-season.

But the fact that there is effectively no one in charge of college sports creates a significant hurdle to reigning in the conferences towards a united path forward. Even these latest NIL rules are the result of court cases -- not a cohesive plan from the NCAA.
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The heavy majority of the players would also benefit from longer term contracts. Perfect examples: Bogavac and Evans.

In a pro league you would have to let them play out their deal unless there was an agreement to a buyout or mutually agreed release. In the current NCAA setup, the very best players can leave every year to keep getting raises, and those who are the best players on their current teams can attempt to "level up" from low major to mid, mid major to P4, etc...but there are just as many players who are getting tossed out because they didn't live up to their salary the previous year. No pro player would want to be a free agent every single year - that gives you 0% stability and at risk that even a minor injury could have you unemployed.
 
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