Kirk Ferentz on NIL vs. NFL: At least when you sign a contract, you sign a contract

With room to spare, Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz is college football’s dean of coaches at the sport’s upper-most level.

A quarter-century deep at Iowa, Ferentz has no one in the Football Bowls Subdivision within five years of his tenure, and he’s speaking in plain terms as it relates to college football’s ongoing upheaval, particularly as it relates to the now-wide open NCAA Transfer Portal as well as the essentially unregulated world of Name, Image and Likeness “pay-for-play” programs.
Iowa just absorbed one of the more bizarre situations in the Portal/NIL era when Kadyn Proctor, an Iowa native, entered the Portal in January after an Freshman All-America season at Alabama, returned home to the Hawkeyes and was rewarded with some NIL funds in the process.