Utah AD says NIL collective offered a player $1 Million to transfer | College Football Enquirer
Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel, and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellenger discuss Pat’s chat with Utah AD Mark Harlan about the current landscape of the transfer portal during the NIL era, and debate if that new era is a good thing or a bad thing.
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I know there are a lot of people who support NIL and believe it's only just to compensate players for the money college football generates. I get it. Nevertheless, I have disdain for it and I never thought it could be relegated with any justifiable parameters other than to create an NWO of college football blue bloods.
Paying recruits is careless. The odds that you get what you pay for are slim like unto NBA Draft picks. And you arm 18 year old young people with a sense of entitlement that isn't good for society.
However, paying recruits and my diatribe thus far isn't the worst part of all of this. The real damage is done within the portal when NIL is the catalyst for movement by elite programs to buy up everybody else's goods. The program destroyer element comes from a small number of blue blood programs who turn the work of other programs into the realm of developers for the ultra rich. It's absolute bullshit to turn good football programs into a farm system and take the hard work done in recruiting and developing, only to swoop in and take the nucleus of a team away by the lure for the lust of greed.
Coach Whittingham is pissed. And I am to. This is corrupt and evil. It's hard to recruit and develop players, only to lose them and start over. I knew that these two factors, NIL and the transfer portal were meant to be combined together. They came out a year apart by sinister design. "Now sir, you tell me the world's changed. Once I made you rich enough. Rich enough to forget my name." (Springsteen).
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