NIL

[SwahiliSteve]

Have they not hired a coach? Iowa State seems like such a destination gig

yeah they hired jimmy rogers. And for signing a contract he was immediately greeted with more transfers than any other schools experience during coaching transitions. But apparently A State quarterback back could hit the transfer portal and go to Iowa State.


When do they move to multi season contracts with players with buyout clauses? When do they change the portal to not allow players to transfer till May?


Can the NCAA do anything or are they deliberately not doing anything to force congress to do their job?

[animal]

I'm going to hazard Iowa State's NIL packaging made Arkansas' look like King Solomon's Mine

[DrMongoose]

Oof

https://x.com/darrenrovell/status/2006400740357444019?s=46&t=6uNMWI6PFOkxijXNhEuvSA

[animal]

Oof

https://x.com/darrenrovell/status/2006400740357444019?s=46&t=6uNMWI6PFOkxijXNhEuvSA

It's hard times for everybody 

[vegashog]

that dude and his company are shady as hell.

[Son of Spam]

If some of these players are getting paid millions, shouldn't they be made to pay their own way in college?

[Thin Red Swine]

Looks like Iowa state has one player returning. Jesus.

Come on. Iowa State doesn't have a non-white player.

[egregious]

that dude and his company are shady as hell.

and I guarantee he extracted a few billion from the company before it tanked

[Mazeppa Pompazoidi]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but Brendan Sorsby, the top rated QB in the portal, signed with Texas Tech for a reported 5 million dollars.

[woodhog14]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but Brendan Sorsby, the top rated QB in the portal, signed with Texas Tech for a reported 5 million dollars.

So stupid.

[GeoHogsGeo]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but Brendan Sorsby, the top rated QB in the portal, signed with Texas Tech for a reported 5 million dollars.

Pretty soon the NFL is going to have to address the elephant in the room, least they be having draft classes with 35-year old rookies.

[Show-Me Hog]

The least interesting part of college sports has become the most important part of college sports. I have never followed recruiting, ever. Not even a tiny bit. Didn't read articles (now threads) about recruiting. Football or basketball or baseball. I just want to show up to the first game and watch a good team. How you get there, I don't care and don't wanna watch the sausage being made.

That hasn't changed now that "recruiting" has tipped from being about high schoolers and the occasional transfer, to trying to keep your guys and evaluating the 4,000 in the transfer portal. I DON'T CARE. I just want to watch a good team in 2026.

Silverfield, get it done.

Edit: I probably put this in the wrong thread. I will leave it as real time evidence of how much I don't care about high school or portal recruiting.

[Thin Red Swine]

The least interesting part of college sports has become the most important part of college sports. I have never followed recruiting, ever. Not even a tiny bit. Didn't read articles (now threads) about recruiting. Football or basketball or baseball. I just want to show up to the first game and watch a good team. How you get there, I don't care and don't wanna watch the sausage being made.

That hasn't changed now that "recruiting" has tipped from being about high schoolers and the occasional transfer, to trying to keep your guys and evaluating the 4,000 in the transfer portal. I DON'T CARE. I just want to watch a good team in 2026.

Silverfield, get it done.

Edit: I probably put this in the wrong thread. I will leave it as real time evidence of how much I don't care about high school or portal recruiting.

I tend to agree, although it's of some value for general fan interest and hopefully excitement. No question it is over-analyzed by people who have zero influence or real knowledge on any of it.

[Sus-Scrofa]

I tend to agree, although it's of some value for general fan interest and hopefully excitement. No question it is over-analyzed by people who have zero influence or real knowledge on any of it.

On the whole, I'm not sure it's beneficial fan interest.

New coach built up a lot of goodwill since he's been hired, this thing is another way for him to lose it before he ever coaches a game.

[DrMongoose]

interesting

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/how-are-schools-trying-to-lure-top-tier-qbs-in-transfer-portal-heres-an-inside-look-at-lsus-pursuit-of-brendan-sorsby-162435817.html

[buff2.0]

Can we pool our resources and buy a piss trough?

https://x.com/paythebillspod/status/2009092319157604392?s=46&t=DTGVKlgNTKh5Nq29PdZsdg

[Son of Spam]

Never happen, but I wish there was a stipulation in NIL that if you transfer, you can't transfer to the same conference. That would probably stop a lot of this crap.

[Mazeppa Pompazoidi]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but Brendan Sorsby, the top rated QB in the portal, signed with Texas Tech for a reported 5 million dollars.

I was wrong.  Now it's being reported that he signed for 5.98 million, because LSU offered around 6 mil.

[vegashog]

kiffin might have fucked around and lost out on any big time qb. had leavitt on campus when the washington qb drama came out and he let him walk. hate to see it.

[jdcatty]

NCAA seeks solutions to transfer, money issuesANDREW DESTIN AND TERESA WALKER

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Jan 10, 2026

A quarterback reportedly reneging on a lucrative deal to hit the transfer portal, only to return to his original school. Another starting QB, this one in the College Football Playoff, awaiting approval from the NCAA to play next season, an expensive NIL deal apparently hanging in the balance. A defensive star, sued by his former school after transferring, filing a lawsuit of his own.

It is easy to see why many observers say things are a mess in college football even amid a highly compelling postseason.

"It gets crazier and crazier. It really, really does," said Sam Ehrlich, a Boise State legal studies professor who tracks litigation against the NCAA. He said he might have to add a new section for litigation against the NCAA stemming just from transfer portal issues.

"I think a guy signing a contract and then immediately deciding he wants to go to another school, that's a kind of a new thing," he said. "Not new kind of historically when you think about all the contract jumping that was going on in the '60s and '70s with the NBA. But it's a new thing for college sports, that's for sure."

Washington quarterback Demond Williams Jr. said late Thursday he will return to school for the 2026 season rather than enter the transfer portal, avoiding a potentially messy dispute amid reports the Huskies were prepared to pursue legal options to enforce Williams' name, image and likeness contract.

Edge rusher Damon Wilson is looking to transfer after one season at Missouri, having been sued for damages by Georgia over his decision to leave the Bulldogs. He has countersued.

Then there is Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, who reportedly had a new NIL deal waiting while he asked the NCAA for approval to play another season after leading the Rebels to Thursday night's Collge Football Playoff semifinal against Miami. The NCAA a day after Miami's win denied his request.

On that Miami roster? Defensive back Xavier Lucas, whose transfer from Wisconsin led to a lawsuit from the Badgers, claiming he was improperly lured to Miami by NIL money. Lucas has played all season for the Hurricanes and now gets a chance at a national championship. The case is pending.

WHAT TO DO?

Court rulings have favored athletes of late, winning them not just millions in compensation but the ability to play immediately after transferring rather than have to sit out a year as once was the case. They can also discuss specific NIL compensation with schools and boosters before enrolling. Current court battles include players seeking to play longer, without lower-college seasons counting against their eligibility, and earning NIL money while doing it.

Ehrlich compared the situation to the labor upheaval professional leagues went through before finally settling on collective bargaining, which has been looked at as a potential solution by some in college sports over the past year. Athletes. org, a players association for college athletes, recently offered a 38-page proposal of what a labor deal could look like.

"I think NCAA is concerned, and rightfully so, that anything they try to do to tamp down this on their end is going to get shut down," Ehrlich said. "Which is why really the only two solutions at this point are an act of Congress, which feels like an act of God at this point, or potentially collective bargaining, which has its own major, major challenges and roadblocks."

The NCAA has been lobbying for years for limited antitrust protection to keep some kind of control over the new landscape — and to avoid more crippling lawsuits — but bills have gone nowhere in Congress.

Universities have long balked at the idea that their athletes are employees in some way. Schools would become responsible for paying wages, benefits, and workers' compensation. And while private institutions fall under the National Labor Relations Board, public universities must follow labor laws that vary from state to state; virtually every state in the South has "right to work" laws that present challenges for unions.

Ehrlich noted the short careers for college athletes and wondered whether a union for collective bargaining is even possible.

A LOOK AT CONTRACTS

To sports attorney Mit Winter, employment contracts may be the simplest solution.

"This isn't something that's novel to college sports," said Winter, a former college basketball player who is now a sports attorney with Kennyhertz Perry. "Employment contracts are a huge part of college sports, it's just novel for the athletes."

Employment contracts for players could be written like those for coaches, he suggested, which would offer buyouts and prevent players from using the portal as a revolving door.

"The contracts that schools are entering into with athletes now, they can be enforced, but they cannot keep an athlete out of school because they're not signing employment contracts where the school is getting the right to have the athlete play football for their school or basketball or whatever sport it is," Winter said. "They're just acquiring the right to be able to use the athlete's NIL rights in various ways. So, a NIL agreement is not going to stop an athlete from transferring or going to play whatever sport it is that he or she plays at another school."

There are challenges here, too, of course: Should all college athletes be treated as employees or just those in revenue-producing sports? Can all injured athletes seek workers' compensation and insurance protection? Could states start taxing athlete NIL earnings?

Winter noted a pending federal case against the NCAA could allow for athletes to be treated as employees more than they currently are.

"What's going on in college athletics now is trying to create this new novel system where the athletes are basically treated like employees, look like employees, but we don't want to call them employees," Winter said. "We want to call them something else and say they're not being paid for athletic services. They're being paid for use of their NIL. So, then it creates new legal issues that have to be hashed out and addressed, which results in a bumpy and chaotic system when you're trying to kind of create it from scratch."

Employment contracts would not necessarily allow for uniform rules with an athlete able to go to transfer when terms have been met. Collective bargaining could include those guidelines.

"If the goal is to keep someone at a school for a certain defined period of time, it's got to be employment contracts," Winter said.





Decent article, no real answers.