Running CFB transfer thread 2021-22

[murphyc]

Wazzu QB DeLaura in the portal. He was pretty good about half the time in 2021.

I think a lot of Coug fans were caught off guard, but maybe it's not that unexpected after all based on stories like this:
Jayden de Laura, WSU's starting QB, enters the NCAA transfer portal

 

[LanceyHoward]

I have been following the effects of the transfer portal and NIL. It appears to be that the sport will be entering a period of complete chaos. Power will be transferred from a bunch of largely white coaches and administrators to the largely black players.

I realize that it would be dangerous to apply CRT and rewrite history to say that the white people like Dabo Sweeney made the money while the blacks got stiffed was a continuation of racism. What Walter Byers, who essentially founded the NCAA, said the system was racist in his autobiography he was a senile old man desperate for attention, and historians should ignore him.

But none the less I will enjoy this chaos because I think the bastards have it coming.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I suspect things will adjust some in the future. I'm reading that only about half of the players who entered the portal received another FBS offer. Some are going to FCS, some just pull their name out and go back, and some get no offers at all.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I suspect things will adjust some in the future. I'm reading that only about half of the players who entered the portal received another FBS offer. Some are going to FCS, some just pull their name out and go back, and some get no offers at all.

The limit on D-1 football scholarships is 25 or so a year and the total number of scholarships allowed is 85. So the math is such that if a school keeps all their scholarship players for four years and redshirts no one they could only sign 21 a year. But somehow enough kids disappeared from the third team depth charts that schools had room for 25 and always had space to redshirt a kid. Those displaced athletes are now in the portal who do not et offers.

The difference now is that because there is no penalty of losing a season good players will leave for whatever reason, including a better NIL deal.

 

[heyabbott]

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this guy figured it out.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I think a lot of Coug fans were caught off guard, but maybe it's not that unexpected after all based on stories like this:
Jayden de Laura, WSU's starting QB, enters the NCAA transfer portal

He's going to Arizona. Sort of like entering the college football witness protection program.

 

[murphyc]

He's going to Arizona. Sort of like entering the college football witness protection program.

Gunner Cruz is still on the Arizona roster, correct? He had previously left Wazzu for Arizona because he realized he wasn't seeing the field while on the same team as de Laura.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Alabama Legislature moves to repeal state's 2021 NIL law


https://www.aldailynews.com/lawmakers-move-to-repeal-states-2021-nil-law/

"It's just a straight repeal of what we did last year," sponsor Rep. Kyle South, R-Fayette, told Alabama Daily News. "We were thinking that the NCAA last year was going to go in one direction and they ended up adopting basically a different rule that was kind of a blanket for everybody.

"And it left us in a place where our state law was more restrictive than what the NCAA adopted," South said.

So, states that adopted nothing, including Michigan and Texas, are now at a recruiting advantage for college athletes now because they're working solely off the NCAA guidelines, South said. Twenty other states passed legislation related to student-athlete compensation in 2021, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures."

 

[DanOregon]

You think about Alabama - a state in the bottom rungs of livibility, health, food need, poverty etc. - and this is the priority?

And lets not kid ourselves - a lot of players who "announce they are entering the portal" are being told by their coach, "hey, you're a good kid - but I don't see you starting for us at any point in the future."
After things settle down, I do think it will be ultimately good for all involved - it will spread the talent around a bit more, schools at the top will continue to get the best players, but they'll lose a lot of their depth and experience.

 

[Della9250]

It's not just the schools at the top that are losing kids, if you are at a Power 5 middle of the conference team, you are losing depth guys after their sophomore years to go start somewhere immediately.

 

[dixiehack]

You think about Alabama - a state in the bottom rungs of livibility, health, food need, poverty etc. - and this is the priority?

Every minute our state legislature spends on this is a minute not devoted to actively forking over vulnerable people. Unfortunately this will probably take no more than 15 minutes to glide through.

 

[Neutral Corner]

This is so true that it hurts.