Seeing the best of the lower tier schools transfer after having at least some success at that level has me wondering. How can the smaller schools benefit from signing and developing a quality player that transfers out? How close are we to the bigger schools paying smaller schools for proven talent? Sounds a lot like a minor league system...

True. They should be paid for their services provided that the rich school will benefit from.

What I think you see is schools pumping money into junior colleges as farm programs, now that it's been decided that doesn't count towards eligibility.

It will be glorious when the non-P4 have nots start charging student athletes for their coaching, facilities and overall development platform, similar to the way club and travel sports teams do now and extract fortunes from kids' parents.

I've been saying this since the start of NIL

I'm sure it happens at some level

MisterJones said:

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I've been saying this since the start of NIL

I'm sure it happens at some level

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They can't do it for NIL. They don't own the intellectual property…the person does.

Ag1188 said:

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True. They should be paid for their services provided that the rich school will benefit from.

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I don't think this will ever happen. I know football is not like the real world, but still in the real world a company helps develop an employee through years of training, additional education, relevant experience, etc. at a great cost. When that employee is offered a better position or more money, etc. at another company, the first company that helped increase the employee's value doesn't get paid.

I think this is just one of those deals. If the player is in demand, the market will determine his value with little regard to who got him there. Idk, I could be wrong, but I don't think so.

Yeah, agree with another poster that stuff like this happens in the real world all the time (which college football is more and more like) and I don't think this will be much different. Non-competes would be interesting, but in the cut throat world of recruiting, not sure how many schools would be able to get kids to sign that - certainly not the ones that lose kids all the time.

What are the mechanics for this anyhow? It would require the smaller school to own the player's rights in some way, and that is definitely not the direction things are going right now. So the small school can say all they want, but if player A wants to go to big school B, they have no real power to stop him.