Portal Out

[CAJUNSby90]

With all due respect when you were already losing 6 of your 9 LBs from the 3 deep to graduation, losing a 7th to the portal does in fact hurt.

yeah its gunna be so hard to replace his production.

[Rainman66]

from the mouth of Bill Davis' father:

"USER: The portal and worst thing to happen to college sports (along with NIL) strikes again! Small college football is dead!

FATHER: Well then how about embrace the change highlight the guys that have left after you developed them and bringing more guys to develop and highlight it's not that hard

USER: It's very hard when everyone has more $$$. The rich get richer in the NCAA

FATHER: This is true, but trust me players are looking for an OPPORTUNITY if they know they can go G5 develop, play, and transfer P4 they will come"

That's how they look at UL -- both the players and the people that are 'advising' them on their life decisions. We're a minor league team where you can get some experience and game film before ultimately transferring to a real school.

According to his father, we should be compiling highlight videos of Montrell Johnson and Terrence Carter to help recruit future defectors.

This is how they look at the G6, not just UL.

[Geaux]

This is how they look at the G6, not just UL.

Agreed.

We're delusional if we think we are playing for the CFP with the likes of bluebloods. We can't figure out a way to average 25K fans for home games.

Can't blame the kids.

Swim with the tide, beat other G6 schools to the market. We should consider highlighting the success of former transfers and get comfortable with annual turnover.

Why did dinosaurs die....they couldn't adapt.

[CAJUNSby90]

Agreed.

We're delusional if we think we are playing for the CFP with the likes of bluebloods. We can't figure out a way to average 25K fans for home games.

Can't blame the kids.

Swim with the tide, beat other G6 schools to the market. We should consider highlighting the success of former transfers and get comfortable with annual turnover.

Why did dinosaurs die....they couldn't adapt.

Problem is, Alot of our former Transfers havent had success lol.

[Rainman66]

College Football is now worse than the NFL, imo. There is no draft, there is no salary cap, there are no contracts to hold players to AND there is yearly free agency. Imagine how chaotic the NFL would be with yearly free agency. Franchise values would plummet because the predictability goes out the window and the product would suffer.

I don’t know of a good, REALISTIC way to save college athletics, at this point. Perhaps having the athletes become employees is an option, but don’t see that ending well either.

I was kind of thinking of something along the lines of Title IX for NIL. The amount of money spent on women’s NIL would have to equal the money spent on men’s NIL. So, you’re not ‘limiting’ what someone can make necessarily. Just a thought.

[Rainman66]

Agreed.

We're delusional if we think we are playing for the CFP with the likes of bluebloods. We can't figure out a way to average 25K fans for home games.

Can't blame the kids.

Swim with the tide, beat other G6 schools to the market. We should consider highlighting the success of former transfers and get comfortable with annual turnover.

Why did dinosaurs die....they couldn't adapt.

Don’t disagree, but to be fair, adapting to something that was, and still is, so poorly defined, is more luck than skill. What do the results look like over the next five years of “doing a good job of adapting”? From my point of view, the only successful ‘adapting’ going on right now are schools spending a bodacious amount of money in a somewhat smart manner.

[Rainman66]

Problem is, Alot of our former Transfers havent had success lol.

They didn’t have on the field success, but they had financial success. 90% of the players who transferred out aren’t going to go pro, but they succeeded in maximizing the amount of money they could make while in college.

Not a perfect analogy, but who is more successful, the person who is a star at a non-profit pulling down $50k/year or the individual contributor who is just a number at some large company where no one knows their name making $125k/year.

[facelessjonmoon]

Agreed.

We're delusional if we think we are playing for the CFP with the likes of bluebloods. We can't figure out a way to average 25K fans for home games.

Can't blame the kids.

Swim with the tide, beat other G6 schools to the market. We should consider highlighting the success of former transfers and get comfortable with annual turnover.

Why did dinosaurs die....they couldn't adapt.

That may be cool for the players but as a fan / alum I have little interest in continuing to throw away money into that scheme

[jaxmc1023]

Problem is, Alot of our former Transfers havent had success lol.

What is success in your eyes?

Starting every game at UL for four years, setting school records and receiving conference honors, all while playing in front of 13k people and going to Marleys every Friday night, before ultimately being an undrafted free agent after thr NFL draft?

Or riding the bench (money or not) at a P4 school, running out of that tunnel into a stadium with 50-60-70k+ fans, using world class training facilities, and being surrounded by exponentially more exciting college life?