The Impact of College Football Transfers on the Sport

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00:00All right, so I want to talk about this kid that's ruined college football

00:04as he's transferred now, or I butcher his name, to UCLA.

00:11At least, look, I got to give the kid credit.

00:14I mean, Knoxville's incredible.

00:16My daughter's applying to school there.

00:18It's a great place.

00:19Incredible sports, incredible atmosphere, you know, Neyland, everything else.

00:25But honestly, if you're going to transfer somewhere, why not to Westwood and UCLA?

00:32I even said looking at the cheerleaders is better.

00:36Well, you know, there's no teaching moment to the whole situation.

00:40That's what I wrote about earlier in the week.

00:42Like, Tennessee can say we took a stand, Scott, but it feels like they took one for the team

00:48for the rest of college football.

00:49And you know how that fan base is, where if they're 8-4 at the end of the season,

00:53or 7-5, taking a stand to only get you so far.

00:57I thought when Nico Iamaliava transferred that he might end up on the West Coast.

01:01But isn't it strange that he ends up in a place where his brother, Madden,

01:07flipped in January and went to Arkansas?

01:10And, you know, with handlers and, you know what phrase is probably the most annoying phrase

01:14in college football right now, Scott, is those in Iamaliava's camp

01:18or those in this quarterback's camp.

01:21Like, we have camps now?

01:23I mean, what are we doing?

01:24This isn't the NFL.

01:25It's trying too hard to be in the NFL.

01:27And I made the analogy last week.

01:29I said it's like a quarterback holding out and seeking free agency at the same time.

01:34And that's what happened.

01:37And now, you know, holdouts.

01:40And now, agents, the seedy side of professional sports has bled all over college sports.

01:50Yeah.

01:51And until we have – everybody says we need NIL guardrails.

01:55What does that mean?

01:56Do we need the two-year contract to make them employees of the university?

02:01Does that slow down the number of people in the transfer portal?

02:05Ross Dellinger had a story today about the rates of kids that haven't found a home

02:09that got in the transfer portal, haven't found a school to play at.

02:13And I think that's another alarming thing that you get into.

02:17It's ugly.

02:18My editors might not feel the same way as I do.

02:22I think for the traditional college football fan, I feel like you and I are that.

02:26It's a turnoff.

02:28It's another reason that you're like, this is – I'm not asking us to go back to 1994 by any means.

02:33But, you know, what we're doing right now, it's ugly.

02:38It's not college football as we know it.

02:40I can't stand it.

02:42And, you know, I argue with everyone that comes on about it.

02:46I got guys coming on here that are big-time media people saying they have no problem at all

02:52with the money that's being thrown around.

02:54I have a massive issue with it personally.

02:58I'm worried about, you know, as Steve Alvord said,

03:00a bunch of stupid kids walking around the earth with no careers and no jobs

03:04and no degrees, and they're making all this money now, whatever.

03:09Who do you think in that portal could actually make college football better for,

03:15you know, themselves and for teams and for conferences

03:18that we could actually grab onto?

03:21Well, we need to – in general with the portal, what I think would work is

03:27if you want to transfer one time, go ahead.

03:30You know, that's fine.

03:30If you're Nico and you want to transfer, that's fine.

03:33What he should have done, honestly, is just started this process

03:37after they lost to Ohio State in the college football playoff.

03:41Then nobody would have blinked.

03:43We would have said, oh, that's a big move.

03:45But, you know, other four- and five-star quarterbacks have done that.

03:48Cam Ward has done it twice.

03:50So, you know, in terms of a quarterback, you know, Steve Angeli at Notre Dame,

03:54if he chooses to get in the portal, he could be an answer for Tennessee,

03:59you know, potentially.

04:00They could find somebody else.

04:01That's what he's doing, right?

04:02Isn't he in it already?

04:04Yeah, and I think that's one guy they should look at.

04:06You know, he stepped in, had a good game against Penn State when they needed it,

04:12experienced quarterback, and can be a stopgap.

04:14They've got another five-star quarterback coming to campus next year.

04:17So, we'll see what they learned from Nico.

04:20But, you know, the people that I've talked to about that situation said,

04:23and here's the other problem, Scott.

04:25When you're handing a 17-year-old a four-year contract, $8 million,

04:30you can say it's NIL, but it's money.

04:32It's paying to play.

04:34Are we shocked that things like this happen?

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