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Portal TE from LSU is N!! Eligible to play this year

Don't care, pumped to have the kid, but this is pretty wild, and kind of hard to believe.

It’s official: there are no current rules for CFB. Players can literally just transfer at any time and be eligible immediately. Can you imagine if Patrick Mahones left the Chiefs on his own during training camp and went and joined the Broncos?
This is just crazy. They have got to figure out some basic NIL/transfer rules…
 
It’s official: there are no current rules for CFB. Players can literally just transfer at any time and be eligible immediately. Can you imagine if Patrick Mahones left the Chiefs on his own during training camp and went and joined the Broncos?
This is just crazy. They have got to figure out some basic NIL/transfer rules…
Life is full of loopholes. He took advantage of it. Crazy how under the radar this was for how highly touted he was.
 
Players can literally just transfer at any time and be eligible immediately.
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Life is full of loopholes. He took advantage of it. Crazy how under the radar this was for how highly touted he was.
The kid literally left school - made his own contacts to find a better fit and switched schools to be a part of the team. None of this is easy vs putting your name in the portal and having everyone and their dog flying you around to wine and dine you to join. I admire his effort and ingenuity and most of all his blocking ability.
 
It’s official: there are no current rules for CFB. Players can literally just transfer at any time and be eligible immediately. Can you imagine if Patrick Mahones left the Chiefs on his own during training camp and went and joined the Broncos?
This is just crazy. They have got to figure out some basic NIL/transfer rules…
This could help any team, it could also bite them in the ass.

Look no farther than Gebbia. Kid thinks he should be the starter after fall ball, doesn't get the top job and the next week shows up at some new school eligible to play right away. KO/Punt returner, WR, TE, etc., are positions that can be learned on a preliminary basis very quickly.

Us fans will be all for it, until it bites us.
 
This could help any team, it could also bite them in the ass.

Look no farther than Gebbia. Kid thinks he should be the starter after fall ball, doesn't get the top job and the next week shows up at some new school eligible to play right away. KO/Punt returner, WR, TE, etc., are positions that can be learned on a preliminary basis very quickly.

Us fans will be all for it, until it bites us.
Don't see any downside. If he plays, it's all upside. If he leaves we're no worse off than before he arrived.
 
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seems to me things are getting quite a bit simpler and more straight forward these days
It’s always easier to justify when the positives go our way. Have a kid leave or someone come poach a player, then let’s see if you feel the same way. Right now, this team seems really tight and all in. It also seemed like no one, including the coaches were sure about his status at first.
 
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It’s always easier to justify when the positives go our way. Have a kid leave or someone come poach a player, then let’s see if you feel the same way. Right now, this team seems really tight and all in. It also seemed like no one, including the coaches were sure about his status at first.
No, everything is just easier when there are no rules.

It would be a breath of fresh air to see one of our players leave and do well instead of being glued to a bench somewhere.

We had a LB poached last year by the national champs. So what. We should be poaching too.
 
It’s always easier to justify when the positives go our way. Have a kid leave or someone come poach a player, then let’s see if you feel the same way. Right now, this team seems really tight and all in. It also seemed like no one, including the coaches were sure about his status at first.
It has happened already to us, we don’t need to wait and see. It suck’s when it happens to us. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody that we would feel that way. Not sure what your point is…
 
It’s official: there are no current rules for CFB. Players can literally just transfer at any time and be eligible immediately. Can you imagine if Patrick Mahones left the Chiefs on his own during training camp and went and joined the Broncos?
This is just crazy. They have got to figure out some basic NIL/transfer rules…
It's a joke at this point. I mean... Gundy was boasting the other day that he was laying down the law at Okie State-- not exactly the big time-- telling players "OK, now that the season is starting, there will be no more requests for more money. That stuff can start again once the season is over."

Wow.
 
The kid literally left school - made his own contacts to find a better fit and switched schools to be a part of the team. None of this is easy vs putting your name in the portal and having everyone and their dog flying you around to wine and dine you to join. I admire his effort and ingenuity and most of all his blocking ability.
Yeah, and that won't last. Soon their will be agents or consultants hitting up kids on every campus. Offering to handle the non-portal transfer process from "A to Z" for a reasonable fee or percentage of future NIL (whatever is greater).
 
Two thoughts: is there a sophomore rb that started a game last year that might interested in starting at a Big 10 school, like say Nebraska?

2nd: I look forward to the 30 for 30 in 15 years where they talk about our playoff run this year and then tell the backstory on Raiola's flip, Cooper leaving and quickly landing Butler, this TE....
 
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It’s always easier to justify when the positives go our way. Have a kid leave or someone come poach a player, then let’s see if you feel the same way.
This is the SAME reaction EVERY fan base would have. "We'' aren't any different, get off your high horse, just once. You are nothing if not consistent with your jabs at the program with ANY chance you get.
 
Saw Rhule in the presser be very adamant they did not contact him. Said it like 3 times to make sure he didn't get accused of any violations lol.
 
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