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It's not the NCAA's fault that Penn State's Beau Pribula is entering the transfer portal
Before we all get on the newest bandwagon Let's get smart together and embrace the basic concept we learned as kids, until the end of college football as we know it.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Or in this case of increasing player empowerment in college athletics, you can't have everything and still want more.
Beau Pribula is a backup quarterback at Penn State and went to work social media Sunday to proclaim that the NCAA's postseason transfer model has forced him to choose between participating in the College Football Playoff with Penn State or entering the transfer portal.
He then wrote that it was with a heavy heart that he entered the transfer portal.
You're kidding.
It is here where I have the gross task of defending the NCAA, a dysfunctional, do-nothing collection of presidential idiots who proclaim that at their heart they have the best interest of everyone involved.
I don't know what makes me want to puke more: to speak the truth about this transfer portal nonsense, or to defend the crap at the NCAA.
First and fundamentally, any player who enters the transfer portal does not have to leave his school before signing with another player. So Pribula, a quarterback who typically plays a handful of snaps per game, doesn't have to leave the team.
He can enter the portal, stay with the Penn State team through the College Football Playoff run and then negotiate with other schools. This has nothing to do with a finite number of scholarships available, and the horror stories (most of them true) of players entering the portal and ultimately not finding a home.
Pribula is in the portal and every school knows that he is switching. If there is a market for him in the portal, schools will wait to make a decision on quarterback, the most important position on the field, until after the Penn States CFP run.
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Not that this needs to be said, but who cares: there's another portal opening in the spring, and the NCAA, anticipating this potential CFP/portal problem, gave players participating in the new 12-team CFP an extension of the winter transfer portal beyond the December 28 cut-off date.
In other words, there is no reason for Pribula (or any other college football player) to be staring at an impossible decision, as Pribula wrote on social media.
Pribula studies communications and graduated in three years from one of the best public universities in the country. This is not the system that abuses the player.
This is the player who uses the system to his advantage.
It should come as no surprise that less than 24 hours after Pribula's announcement, Penn State quarterback Drew Allar announced he was returning to State College in 2025.
It's not that hard to connect Pribula's timeline, from a lifelong Penn State fan, a kid who dreamed of playing for the Nittany Lions, to a player who has done everything asked of him, but not the starting job can win, to the disappointment of sitting another year. behind Allar.
Pribula has no game tape to speak of, and any school investing in him (scholarships, revenue deal, NIL deal) would do so based on potential. Not many Power Four conference schools spend a lot of money on portal potential.
In other words, the longer Pribula waits to leave Penn State, the less likely he is to join a major conference school.
This Penn State graduate, who has family that graduated from Penn State, who played at Central York High School, about two hours southeast of State College, cannot be part of such a selfish move to get your team ahead of the game. to leave the season.
So he makes it about the NCAA, the easy bad guy.
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Players can earn all their name, image and likeness and have free movement without the prior restriction of serving a season of eligibility.
Starting next season, players in all college sports will be paid from a media rights revenue sharing salary pool of at least $20.5 million. If the settlement case between the House and the NCAA is not approved in July, there could be many more.
Everything players have asked for, including $2.8 billion in back pay to former players dating back to 2017, has essentially been handed over by the NCAA, hat in hand.
Now Pribula wants the NCAA to clear him of guilt. Because a player who has done everything right at Penn State, who has been the perfect teammate in every way, can't just walk away in the middle of a championship run. Someone has to take the blame.
Why not the NCAA?
Why not jump on social media and rally the vocal pitchfork support, decrying how the mean men and women at the NCAA are forcing the poor, misunderstood player to make a difficult life decision.
Kind of like the difficult life decision of going to Penn State in the first place.
Look, players have been on the short end of this deal three times already, and it's only since 2021 that they've rightly started to get their financial footing. But you can't play both sides of the story.
You can't be the one to be taken advantage of if you get everything you want.
You can't complain about the NCAA abandoning you when you control traffic and employment. Because that's what it is now, no matter how college presidents and conference commissioners try to convince everyone else that it isn't with a variety of mental gymnastics.
You have a job. You have responsibilities.
If you walk away and find another job, it's up to you. No one else.
Nearly three years ago, Jayden Daniels left Arizona State and entered the transfer portal. He spent three uneven seasons with the Solar Devilsand decided it was time to leave.
Five weeks later, in late March 2022 and during the spring portal, after his Arizona State teammates took to social media to share their thoughts upon his departure, Daniels signed with LSU and had two years of eligibility remaining. He then led the Tigers to back-to-back 10-win seasons and won the Heisman Trophy in 2023.
Maybe you can have your cake and eat it too.
Just don't blame the NCAA if it doesn't taste the way it should.
Matt Hayes is the senior national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports Network. Follow him on X @MattHayesCFB.
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