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1) This portal business is fast becoming a free agent market. Do you see a possibility of the acquiring school being required to give something up to the school the portal player is coming from? – OandM 69
Chris Coleman: You mean like a transfer fee when a player moves from one team to another in soccer? No, I can’t see that. If they players themselves aren’t getting paid, then no money could change hands between schools during a player transfer. Nor could any other goods or services change hands. There is no contract between the player and the school. There is a scholarship that is granted on a year-by-year basis, but no long-term binding contract. The schools don’t own the rights to the players, as we see in professional sports. So a team can’t be compensated for the loss of a player, because he never owned that player to begin with.
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