How payments & the transfer portal have reshaped college football

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College Football Enquirer co-hosts Andy Staples, Ross Dellenger and Steven Godfrey discuss how the entire landscape of college football has changed -- allowing more teams to compete for players and attract talent to their schools. Hear the full conversation on the 'College Football Enquirer' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Let me talk about the movement because I think this is what's interesting about it now.
Schools can pay.
So, you get $20.5 million, which is a percentage of basically the average Power Conference revenue or the average Power Conference budget.
And, uh, that number can change.
It's sort of like the NFL salary cap, which will move based on football-related revenues.
This can move as the years go on.
Practically though, Ohio State was going to have all this money to pay anyway because they're Ohio State; they can just, you know, sound the alarm.
The boosters will come in.
Yeah, Iowa State never had that.
Vanderbilt never had that.
And that's where I think this is interesting because I was watching the SEC documentary on Netflix the other day, watching Vandy beat Alabama and watching Diego Pavia and Eli Stowers.
The thing I hadn't thought about until I was watching that is, oh.
If not for NIL, they wouldn't be at Vanderbilt this year.
No, no.
It is the highest star rating assembled for a roster for your players, whatever that means exactly.
In other words, like the highest percentage of players lost to a Vanderbilt team, the core of which was assembled via New Mexico State.
That sentence is actually, like, impossible 5 years ago.
Hey, Eli Stowers was a 4-star recruit who signed with Texas A&M originally.
He just wound up in New Mexico State.
Guys, Vanderbilt tickets right now are going for hundreds of dollars.
I have LSU in-laws who casually thought they would do what they always do when they play in Nashville, which is come in like an invading force, walk up and buy a ticket cash for $20.
You can't do that.
Vanderbilt is a commodity.
Now, however short term this might be, because of the ephemera of last year, they are a commodity two years in a row.
That also feels physically impossible 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago.
Player movement can be a positive for many, um, and that is, that is like the biggest impact.
So we go back to like what we're talking about, it is more about the movement than the money, the fact that a Vanderbilt can get those players and a massive team that can beat Alabama's.
It is, it's a good, it's a good example of sort of a big change.
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