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#1 2018-01-31 07:54:59 - Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

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Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

https://www.sbnation.com/2018/1/30/1695 … es-coaches

In short, the idea is to let FBS football players transfer to other FBS schools without having to sit out a year under a pretty broad set of circumstances. They get to do this if their head coach gets fired or takes a better job, for example. So Fedora could have taken, say, Jamie Collins with him to UNC (where he may or may not have started).

Another circumstance that removes the need for sitting a year out after a transfer is if a team gets banned from the postseason. That's a little less stupid, since it punishes schools that break the rules, but I'm still not very enthusiastic about it. Seems like an oversimplification to say the school cheated but the players were innocent. That's not usually true, e.g. when a booster supplies an impermissible benefit like a free ham, who gets to eat the ham?

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#2 2018-01-31 08:28:27 - Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

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Re: Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

You sign with the school/institution not the head coach.


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#3 2018-01-31 12:28:09 - Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

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Re: Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

welcome to the obvious......this was scripted when realignment began....

#behindthecurve


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#4 2018-01-31 18:24:20 - Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

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Re: Terrible idea of the day: free agency for college football players

Supposedly the Big XII came up with this idea. I guess they've had fewer scandals recently than some other P5 conferences and want to capitalize?


Bring back Reed V. "Pie" TurkPalmer Eustachy.

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