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Why the NIL era will continue to force more QB transfers
College Football Enquirer co-hosts Andy Staples, Ross Dellenger and Steven Godfrey discuss the decisions by Dylan Raiola and DJ Lagway to enter the transfer portal and why the moves are a sign of more to come when quarterbacks are paid highly but don’t meet expectations on the field. Check out the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Video Transcript
I do think we’re seeing something a bit different now.
And we started to see it last year, but Ross brought it up with the Royala situation.
I talked about it with the Lagway situation.
These guys are established starters.
Who, if one had a coaching change, that adds something to it, But the other didn’t have a coaching change.
But neither of them lived up to their lofty expectations or lofty paycheck, And I do the latter, right.
And I do wonder until there’s a CBA and you have binding contracts both ways.
I don’t know that we’re gonna see, like, you gonna have to really earn and kind of sing for Your supper as a QB.
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You’re gonna have to earn it, or you’re gonna have to be drastically underpaid.
Threatened to leave, then got overpaid.
So basically, if you’re a successful quarterback in a three-year span, you’re constantly Renegotiating: correct if you’re at one institution, yes.
You’d better be good enough to justify your price point or willing to take a cut.
That is the that’s the conundrum there and you can price yourself out of market Well.
And that’s, that’s the other thing people Need to be careful.
That’s what they, you know, We talk about a truly free market, and thats kind of what This is.
This is a truly free market, but there’s always An upper boundary.
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It’s interesting how these things are going now to be handled financially in the offseason.
If there can be any stability, um, as you are performing at or above Expectation as a quarterback, because otherwise wethis is probably going to be the norm.
We’re probably gonna have a Black Monday type situation.
Every December, in the quarterback free agency market, if we don’t get a little more guard, A little more guardrails around that, yeah, until some kind of, you know, Bargaining agreement in more binding contracts are, uh, Uh, come to college football, which doesn’t sound like it’s anytime soon, Although, because of failures in Congress, the CSC participation agreement, I think there’s more, more than not, and this is something that was a topic in Las Vegas last Week, uh, um, is, yeah, more, more talk about, Well, what other options do we have?
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Which is really just one other option.
Remember, coaches have always cut loose QBs.
They didn’t want it.
That’s always happened.
Yeah, runoff was like a common verb when coaches talked off the record about How they were gonna handle their roster.
We’re running that guy off.
So this is, if anything, a new market that gives at least these guys a little bit of cash first They get it before they go out the door.