Boise State OC Dirk Koetter, who is leaving, has posted this on his facebook account

[FromDeeeeep]

People wanted college football to be NFL minor league. They said players should get paid and be able to transfer without issue. People even said they were only going to college to play so why attend classes. If you said they were student athletes getting a free education along with room and board, you were just exploiting these players.

Be careful what you ask for.

The transfer without issue that people were upset about was coaches blocking players from transferring to like 30-40 places, basically effing kids over. People like Saban were able to trap kids because no one would question them over **** like that. Once it changed? He goes on a public rant and then retires a year later.

Unlimited transfers would end once schools realize they need to treat CFB like the billionaire dollar empire that it is and make players employees and collectively bargain with them. The term student athlete is a joke used to justify “amateurism” for decades and needs to be eradicated..

IMO ultimately the best solution would be for universities to spin off athletic departments into their own separate entities and then receive license/royalty/rent etc for use of the school colors, brands, facilities etc. That would allow schools to just focus on academics, not worry about Title IX (lawsuits), etc.

 

[JD08]

The transfer without issue that people were upset about was coaches blocking players from transferring to like 30-40 places, basically effing kids over. People like Saban were able to trap kids because no one would question them over **** like that. Once it changed? He goes on a public rant and then retires a year later.

Unlimited transfers would end once schools realize they need to treat CFB like the billionaire dollar empire that it is and make players employees and collectively bargain with them. The term student athlete is a joke used to justify “amateurism” for decades and needs to be eradicated..

IMO ultimately the best solution would be for universities to spin off athletic departments into their own separate entities and then receive license/royalty/rent etc for use of the school colors, brands, facilities etc. That would allow schools to just focus on academics, not worry about Title IX (lawsuits), etc.

So abandon the entire reason schools have athletic departments.

There are more than 20,000 football players at both the FBS and FCS level. There are 1,696 roster positions in the NFL with 224 players getting drafted each year. The value for 99% of these student-athletes is the degree they leave with.

 

[FromDeeeeep]

So abandon the entire reason schools have athletic departments.

There are more than 20,000 football players at both the FBS and FCS level. There are 1,696 roster positions in the NFL with 224 players getting drafted each year. The value for 99% of these student-athletes is the degree they leave with.

I’m not saying that kids can’t go to school or that every school that plays football should do this. There are about 40+ schools that are ready willing and able to do this. Call them FAS.

For those schools, the players on them who don’t want to go shouldn’t be forced into the farce that currently in place. Put dedicated time in place for classes, so coaches can’t force them to not attend classes.

Also as part of their employment allow them free tuition for certain period of time after their playing days end. A former player attending school after his playing days are over would be more motivated than a player being forced too.

Make no mistake the division split is going to happen, the way the house settlement is structured schools that don’t even play football like Saint Peters and Gonzaga are going have to pay millions into the settlement pool for former football players like Trevor Lawrence and Cj Stroud.

 

[AllAboutTheU]

People wanted college football to be NFL minor league. They said players should get paid and be able to transfer without issue. People even said they were only going to college to play so why attend classes. If you said they were student athletes getting a free education along with room and board, you were just exploiting these players.

Be careful what you ask for.

All of these things are still true and the current system sucks. The NCAAs greed and refusal to actually govern is why we’re here.

 

[JD08]

I’m not saying that kids can’t go to school or that every school that plays football should do this. There are about 40+ schools that are ready willing and able to do this. Call them FAS.

For those schools, the players on them who don’t want to go shouldn’t be forced into the farce that currently in place. Put dedicated time in place for classes, so coaches can’t force them to not attend classes.

Also as part of their employment allow them free tuition for certain period of time after their playing days end. A former player attending school after his playing days are over would be more motivated than a player being forced too.

Make no mistake the division split is going to happen, the way the house settlement is structured schools that don’t even play football like Saint Peters and Gonzaga are going have to pay millions into the settlement pool for former football players like Trevor Lawrence and Cj Stroud.

I'm sure the division split will happen, but they should absolutely have to still be students. That should always be the primary goal. Otherwise you'll have players go to one of these FAS teams (can't call them schools) and turn into failures and not get drafted. A lawsuit will result and the press, who loves the sport of football, will talk about how the uneducated were exploited with promises of an NFL career and then abandoned by the school without even so much as a single college credit.

 

[CaneSinceForEver]

Listen on the one hand, I get what he is saying, but on the other hand, please let me know when Boise State was recruiting at an elite level before all of this?

BSU may not recruit at an elite level, but I'll gladly exchange their record with ours the last 20+ years.

 

[Ispyin]

BSU may not recruit at an elite level, but I'll gladly exchange their record with ours the last 20+ years.

I get it but wasnt the point.

 

[grover]

It's a joke, and a slap in the face to coaches at places like Boise State.

To succeed with lower ranked players requires a lot more detailed evaluations combined with great development.
That used to be the way teams like Boise would make decent runs.

Do that now, and richer schools are coming to take your players. The players that YOU evaluated and developed.

Duke played a bowl game without their starting QB tonight. He's heading to Oregon State.
Duke's QB from last year just won the Sugar Bowl for Notre Dame.
That's TWO high level QB's that Duke recruited/developed... QB's that could've changed the trajectory of their program. Gone.

**** is fvcked up.

It's essentially a minor league baseball or soccer league system. Everyone with talent gets called up to the next level, those who underdeliver get pushed down or out.

 

[CANESCANES]

Outgoing Boise State coach says Oregon Ducks offered Broncos player $700K to transfer

In a wide-ranging interview on KTIK with Mike Prater and John Mallory, outgoing Boise State offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter spoke candidly about the Broncos’

www.si.com

“Let’s get some numbers out there. Our salary cap is $2 million,” Koetter said during Monday’s radio interview. “And that’s up from maybe something like $1.6 million last year, but it’s around $2 million. Every calendar year, that’s what it is right now, and trying to grow it. But the people we’re competing against, maybe not in our current conference, but where we’re going and who we’re expected to compete against, it’s as high as $20 million.

 

[CANESCANES]

 

[Alex_Dynamix]

Snitching on the way out lol he going out sad

 

[TheNation305]

You know the transfer portal is totally separate and different from NIL/Compensating players ..? Every time this discussion comes about people just Lump the two together …

The portal! Is the issue in collegiate athletics .. not NIL imo .. as that’s always been going on .. and the market will level out . Boise State in 2008 still wasn’t out recruiting Oregon .. or had the same budget or “resources”

Fix the portal .. there has to be rules and a better structure .. that’s the bigger problem.

NCAA incompetence is the root.