- THE ROY REPORT
- November 4, 2024
- Brandon Brown
Mid-Season Transfers Are Now The Move
Collegiate athletics have changed more over the last five to eight years than maybe the previous 80 before that and in a lot of ways. Whether it be the gigantic new TV contracts or the advent of name, image and likeness and how that’s constantly affecting the way rosters are put together, things are changing. Universities and programs are now able to directly compensate athletes for what they do on the field, which is probably how it should’ve been for a long time, but some of the most legendary coaches are hanging it up because they don’t like the changes. Throw in the ever-evolving transfer portal and you have a product that looks nothing like it did even a decade ago. The changes have been happening so rapidly that it’s really kind of hard to keep up.
One of the new things that seems to be taking place more and more often, even though we started to see it a handful of years ago, is athletes deciding to transfer during the middle of their season. It’s most apparent in college football, and we used to see it where guys would sit out of bowl games, but now it’s happening just a few games into the football season. If a team gets off to a slow start, or a player isn’t getting the playing time he wanted or expected, it’s into the transfer portal they go. The players simply take a redshirt season and use the time to find a new home or prepare for the next level. It feels a little bit like the players are bailing on their teams and teammates, but it’s just how things are now.
You’re seeing guys take to social media to announce that they will be taking a redshirt year. You’re talking about guys who, on Saturday might have caught six passes for 100 yards, but lost, and now the team is 2-4 or 2-. By Sunday or Monday, they’re announcing that they’re in the transfer portal and they’re no longer part of that program.
When you look at the amount of money that some of these young men and women are going to make after they get out of college, especially when you’re talking about high level draft picks in the NBA and the NFL, it’s really hard to fault a young athlete for pulling the plug early in order to find a better situation in college or get ready for the professional ranks.
Because of how things are done nowadays, when a player enters the portal, they’re essentially trying to find out just how much money they can make via NIL opportunities. It has become very lucrative for players to find a team in need and capitalize on that desperation. With Roy, there’s a way for fans to get involved, which can really tell a player just how valuable they are. If a player decides to leave a school, fans from other schools can put money into an account on Roy in order to bring that player to their favorite school. That’s how athletes can see their true market value.
Roy is a game changing platform that simply has not existed. NIL has only been around since 2021 so a lot of this is new. It’s the wild, wild west out there right now — the way that athletes are earning money, the way that they’re getting promised money and not getting it, the way that athletes are taking money and then hitting the road when they didn’t live up to their end of the deal — it’s just all over the place. With Roy, it’s very transparent. Fans or donors or boosters give money to exactly who they want to. If the athlete does what they’re supposed to do, they get that money. If they don’t, you get your money back.
Giving money and paying players is now completely above board and players are leaving school midseason because of it. Where that money comes from and where it goes is still very murky in most cases but with Roy, the doors are wide open. You can see everything. You can see exactly where the money is going, how those athletes are getting valued, and what they are doing to get that money based on the decisions that they make.
A lot of what people loved about college sports for a long time is gone, and that’s ok. It’s now about doing it the right way and with the best interest of the athlete in mind. That’s why NIL is a good thing and why doing it via Roy is a great thing. The athletes know that they are the driving force behind billion dollar television deals and billion dollar media contracts, and they’re just trying to get their piece of the pie. Roy is attempting to revolutionize the way that the pie is baked and also how the pieces are handed out.
Giving money and paying players is now completely above board and players are leaving school midseason because of it.
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