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?
Life is full of loopholes. He took advantage of it. Crazy how under the radar this was for how highly touted he was.
seems to me things are getting quite a bit simpler and more straight forward these days
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.
FIFY
But he did literally leave school at LSU to come to Nebraska … is that alleged?🤓
no, but the rest is (own contacts, ect.)
This could help any team, it could also bite them in the ass.
Don't see any downside. If he plays, it's all upside. If he leaves we're no worse off than before he arrived.
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 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…
Agreed. It's a pretty neat story. It seems as if this kid really is a throw back-- the unrecruited walk-on. And he's good!
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."
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).
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.
Remind me who we lost like this kid from LSU? Also, who came poaching our kids with money offers like some schools are saying?
LSU has known for several weeks that he was gone from LSU. It's quite a bit different even than Gebbia who bailed out after school had started. Frost was asleep at the wheel on that deal. Say what you want about Gebbia, he would have probably won us some games when AMart went down with his injuries.
Major slap in the face to Iowa. Legacy 4 star who foremost narrowed it down to schools within 7 hours of St. Louis with a power offense who will utilize tight ends. I'm sure having DR here didn't hurt.
The fans that still want college players tied to some weird ball and chain that they can't leave is so odd to me.
But why?
Because no other sports league functions this way. These kids want to be paid. They want to be professionals. Professionals operate on contracts. They don’t get to take a bag and leave right away. That’s why. They can’t have it both ways. Want to leave and transfer like a normal student? Ok, give up the money and scholarships that normal students don’t get. Also go through the normal admissions process that many athletes would never make it through if they couldn’t contribute athletically.
I guess we look at quitting differently.
What does it matter how other sports function?
