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I suspect things will settle down over the next few years.  Boosters will realize they're not getting the return they wanted or expected, players will realize that accepting that money is going to come with some strings they might not want to have pulled.

i hear this all the time and i dont buy it.  no way it stops no way it slows down.  like taxes once it starts it never ends. 

The schools didn't plan for this at all and mostly stuck their fingers in their ears until they were forced to deal with it. So it will be a lot of random stuff until they get around to trying to come up with a coherent set of rules for it. Probably the worst thing is having people play one year, then enter the portal and head to the highest bidder to play the next year (and then do it again).

The end of college football has begun.

The schools didn't plan for this at all and mostly stuck their fingers in their ears until they were forced to deal with it. So it will be a lot of random stuff until they get around to trying to come up with a coherent set of rules for it. Probably the worst thing is having people play one year, then enter the portal and head to the highest bidder to play the next year (and then do it again).

Players only get one free transfer without having to sit out.  So Ewers gets to do this once, but if he's dissatisfied with his second stop and wants to transfer again, he's going to sit out a year.  That won't be good for his NIL prospects and/or contracts, nor will it be good for proving himself to the NFL if that's his ultimate goal.

i hear this all the time and i dont buy it.  no way it stops no way it slows down.  like taxes once it starts it never ends.

You "hear this all the time" for something that's been around for 8 months?  Okay.  Maybe give it some time.  Plenty of boosters/sponsor companies are going to find that they're not getting their desired return on investment.  And some players will discover they don't like all the strings that come attached with certain deals.

They've basically just deregulated a market that has been regulated for over 100 years.  Things are going to be wonky for a while, and then they'll settle out.

Note-- I'm not saying the money will go away.  That cat is out of the bag, there's no going back, and in general the money will climb overall.  But some of these really weird and high$ one-off deals will start to go away, as the investors realize they're not getting the return they want.

Ewers is quite talented.  It's not an exaggeration to say he may be the next ex-Buckeye Heisman winner.

I'd be cool with it if he ended up at Texas and that happened.

this is capitalism at work. if a bunch of boosters want to waste their money trying to entice kids to come to a particular school, have at it. never going to blame anyone for making money. go make that paper Ewers.

Players only get one free transfer without having to sit out.  So Ewers gets to do this once, but if he's dissatisfied with his second stop and wants to transfer again, he's going to sit out a year.  That won't be good for his NIL prospects and/or contracts, nor will it be good for proving himself to the NFL if that's his ultimate goal.

Maybe. Anyone can enter the portal (I believe) which frees them up to hear from other coaches, and I'm not sure what limits there are now on NIL stuff, boosters, etc. Say he goes to Texas and has a good year. TAMU boosters may want to entice him to leave, because that would hurt Texas and help TAMU, whether he sits out a year or not.