Banished letters of intent and shrunk transfer window equals more chaos in college sports

By Eddie Pells, Associated PressFILE - Lakeside High School's Rashad Roundtree signs a letter of intent on national signing day, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, at Lakeside High School in Evans, Ga. All the changes are, in some way, related to the antitrust settlement a federal judge conditionally approved last week that will result in universities paying their athletes directly through a revenue-sharing program.

And that stems from a series of legal and legislative rulings that have allowed college athletes to make money on the use of their name, image and likeness since July 2021. The change also comes as college athletes, notably in California and New Hampshire, seek to be recognized as school employees with the right to collectively bargain for pay and benefits – a proposal schools are fighting in court. “We’re getting blown up by recruits and we don’t have any answers for them,” Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz said.



“We don’t have answers for the settlement, we don’t have answers for , we don’t have answers for National Letter of Intent. We don’t have a lot of answers right now on the portal.”Since it started becoming exponentially easier for players to transfer, the numbers game has grown more difficult for coaches.

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