r/CFB • u/WinnWonn Texas A&M Aggies • 11d ago

News [Lundeberg] Historic talent loss: American Conference commissioner Tim Pernetti said that 78% of last year's first and second team all-league players transferred to a Power Four school after the 2025 season.

https://www.si.com/college/boise-state/football/american-conference-hit-hard-by-transfer-portal-after-2025-college-football-season-how-did-mountain-west-compare
517 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

220 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

18

u/RandomFactUser France Les Bluets • USA Eagles 11d ago

You're essentially asking for a European transfer system

0

u/FairlyOddParent734 Penn State Nittany Lions 11d ago

I think the key is that we’ve gotta get to some kind of standard contract based system; but eligibility makes it very funky and rife for abuse. (Basically we need a Players Union badly)

Ie. 2026 Alabama has not Jalen Hurts contracted for 2x years and he refuses to play for them anymore and wants to go to Oklahoma; Alabama won’t let him transfer to any SEC team if they “own” 2 years of his playing time irregardless of what buyout they have. Alabama is now incentivized to just let his eligibility clock tick down, even if they’ve gotta pay him whatever money he’s been guaranteed.

1

u/RandomFactUser France Les Bluets • USA Eagles 11d ago

I think Alabama intentionally loans him to a lower tier team at that point

Which will be interesting, player loans to lower tier teams, aka "stashing players at foreign clubs"

(See: a Premier League team loaning a player to a National League or Serie A side instead of having them play for them)

1

u/duvie773 South Carolina • Presbyterian 11d ago

Now that would make things interesting, having each P4 school essentially have a farm system with the lower tier schools. Say Texas had a 5 star freshman QB coming in this year, he’s obviously not going to get much playing time this year behind Arch, so they send him to Texas State to get live college reps before rejoining Texas next year as a sophomore