College football has changed a lot over the past few years with the introduction of the transfer portal as well as the new name, image, and likeness rules. But one college head coach seems to think that the problems aren’t with the new rules themselves, but that the NCAA was inadequately prepared for any unintended consequences.
Former college football head coach Dan Mullen absolutely blasted the NCAA during a recent interview as he suggested that the organization chose not to listen to head coaches when they brought up concerns initially and offered no real guidelines or regulation to keep those concerns from materializing.
“As the coaches started to make statements – ‘Hey, this is what’s gonna happen,’ it was, ‘Here’s the bad part of everything that’s going down’ – is [the NCAA said], ‘We don’t want to listen to you. You guys, we don’t want to hear what you have to say,’” Mullen told Outkick’s Trey Wallace according to On. “And so, I think what happened is a lot of what was gonna happen on a daily basis got swept under the carpet in the administrators, lawyers at the NCAA looking at the practical use of NIL and what it was actually designed for, and the practical use of [the] transfer portal and what it’s designed for. And they didn’t want to hear the reality of what was actually gonna happen, and I think that’s where the disconnect is.
“That’s how it started to get a little bit out of control. Now that all of those prophecies have kind of come true, now everyone’s like, ‘Oh, boy, well how did this happen?’”
Obviously, it’s now too late, but many of those predications turned out to be correct.
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