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My Wish List for the 2024 NIL and Transfer Portal Era

Is it time to fix the chaos? My 2024 wish list for NIL and the transfer portal

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By: JC Nevils

While bowl games and the College Football Playoffs begin,
Christmas is also right around the corner, and with it comes wish
lists everywhere. There has been an uproar throughout the college
football landscape about the NIL along with the transfer portal
needing changes, and I’m one of those people. It’s been the
wild, wild west with no order whatsoever. Now, I love what both
bring, but policies need to be made. Here I name my wish list of
changes that should be made this offseason.

1. New Transfer Portal Open and Close Dates

The biggest uproar lately has been about when the transfer
portal opens and closes. As it stands now, the portal has two separate
windows. The winter portal has a 30 day window from December
9th to December 28th, while the spring portal is only open for a little
over a week, starting from April 16th to April 25th. I have no
problems with the spring window, but the winter one needs a
change. We now have player quitting on teams during bowl prep
along with rosters being depleted for the CFP. It’s not all the players’ fault, though. They only have a certain amount of time to gain
interest, which makes it seem like they are abandoning their team
which just isn’t the case. This can all be nullified if we just wait a
month until the season is over.

2. Transfer Rate Consequences

As I stated earlier in my intro, I love the transfer portal.
Players don’t have to be handcuffed to detrimental situations, and they in turn gain control of their future. While that may be true, there needs
to be policies. While a lot of players have valid reasons for
transferring, others just simply do not. There are players transferring
three to four times, and even more just to play or boost their ego.
Now, I understand certain emergencies and other situations where you have to leave no matter what, but three years in a row or more?
No. At that point you have to sit out one year. I believe that would
lower the rate of players entering. There is also this term called
competing, which we desperately need to get back to.

3. Fines and Penalties for Tampering

This one kind of ties into my first point of order. We have
heard about players uprooting and abandoning their teams out of
nowhere, but it just isn’t the players’ doing. There are coaches along
with other entities tied to programs, whom are tampering with other
teams players. While most are doing it towards the end of the
season, a lot of them are even doing it throughout the entire season,
which is outrageous to me. I mean there has to be some type of
integrity left in the sport.

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The NFL doesn’t even go to the lengths that certain programs do nowadays.
It’s a tough pill to swallow when you build a successful program and with the roster just to
lose your best players to the highest bidder. Now some are going to
leave regardless just because of how much money is out there now,
but to be manipulated all year is a bit much. There needs to be
policies set in place to fine or even suspend offenders in certain cases, such as imposing the loss of a few scholarships. Just take a look at the NBA for example.

4. NIL Fines

While we might be a ways out from this, I certainly see it
coming to fruition at some point. There’s just entirely too much money
being thrown around, and a lot of people just don’t know what to do
with that type of money, let alone young adults. They are coming
into life changing money, which they have long deserved. With that
though comes certain expectations and consequences. If I’m
paying you millions to play for my program I expect you to not only
succeed, but do so at a high level.

I understand that not everyone is getting that type of money, but if you
are, you are expected to perform. That’s just how life goes, period, with any job, contract, or agreement. I expect you to be at
practice on time, watch your film, be in the weight room, and so
forth. I’ll even go as far as to say you should be playing in the postseason as well. Basically, what I’m saying is, do your job. If your end is not being held up, then I see no problem with fines or even giving some back to the school you abandoned. As I stated before, there are consequences for everything in life, and you just can’t have it both ways.

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