Goldendawg
05-11-2024, 11:34 AM
I reluctantly joined the "BI", but I have many questions about the concepts of "scholar athlete" and team in our new pay up college sports, especially football.
Questions/Concerns:
Charlie said we still monitor progress toward a degree and eligibility as important issues. How many of these free agent mercenaries even care? Many have been at 4 to 5 different schools in 4 or so years. The last two years approximately 50% of portal players have not even found a landing spot, but you don't see the Supreme Court or NCAA addressing these perhaps blown educational opportunities.
Little to no time for development: Sign a well thought of HS player but, he isn't ready to start in year one or year 2, he's probably gone when portal players come in to start from often lesser programs in our case. My late Dad used to take me to Freshman games against other OOC or SEC teams in a 4 game season back in the day and we would be excited to see the talent or potential in some of these players. We would look forward to their future play and even getting to know them and talk to them at Spring games in the future..
NIL: How much does HS recruiting even mean anymore unless the player is an immediate starter/game changer/impact type? Do you give him big $ to sit that first year of two and go free agent again? Jackie often said if you signed a JC player that couldn't start or be a valuable backup in year one then it was a wasted scholarship. How about portal players?
Do we worry less about HS $igning classes and just hope to get them in a year or so as a dissatisfied player who sat on the beach a year or two at bama, AU, or even OOC lower level programs and hope they can start for us at a competitive or winning level?
How do you mesh into a "team" when turning over 40 or more players each year. Jackie was very hit or miss in going heavy JC. Many underclassmen left when going to heavy JC. In the old print "Bulldog's Bite", in a first game bad loss, a transfer KS JC starting DB said that he knew we were in trouble when he was tying his cleats in the locker room and looked around the room and didn't know his teammates names.
Are these one year portal players interested in "team" or "me" in that last year's hope of impressing to make the NFL?
JMO: All things considered above and more, it will take a new type "Portal HC" that I think we have in Lebby and OM cetainly has in Kiffin (If their all in philosophy works thi$ year) to succeed in this mess. I think we have that in Lebby. We as fans will have to buy in for State to succeed also, now. Whether we like it or not. I don't think this "Pandora's Box" will be even partly closed with new regulations. Welcome to that "Wild, Wild, West" we were always warned about.
Questions/Concerns:
Charlie said we still monitor progress toward a degree and eligibility as important issues. How many of these free agent mercenaries even care? Many have been at 4 to 5 different schools in 4 or so years. The last two years approximately 50% of portal players have not even found a landing spot, but you don't see the Supreme Court or NCAA addressing these perhaps blown educational opportunities.
Little to no time for development: Sign a well thought of HS player but, he isn't ready to start in year one or year 2, he's probably gone when portal players come in to start from often lesser programs in our case. My late Dad used to take me to Freshman games against other OOC or SEC teams in a 4 game season back in the day and we would be excited to see the talent or potential in some of these players. We would look forward to their future play and even getting to know them and talk to them at Spring games in the future..
NIL: How much does HS recruiting even mean anymore unless the player is an immediate starter/game changer/impact type? Do you give him big $ to sit that first year of two and go free agent again? Jackie often said if you signed a JC player that couldn't start or be a valuable backup in year one then it was a wasted scholarship. How about portal players?
Do we worry less about HS $igning classes and just hope to get them in a year or so as a dissatisfied player who sat on the beach a year or two at bama, AU, or even OOC lower level programs and hope they can start for us at a competitive or winning level?
How do you mesh into a "team" when turning over 40 or more players each year. Jackie was very hit or miss in going heavy JC. Many underclassmen left when going to heavy JC. In the old print "Bulldog's Bite", in a first game bad loss, a transfer KS JC starting DB said that he knew we were in trouble when he was tying his cleats in the locker room and looked around the room and didn't know his teammates names.
Are these one year portal players interested in "team" or "me" in that last year's hope of impressing to make the NFL?
JMO: All things considered above and more, it will take a new type "Portal HC" that I think we have in Lebby and OM cetainly has in Kiffin (If their all in philosophy works thi$ year) to succeed in this mess. I think we have that in Lebby. We as fans will have to buy in for State to succeed also, now. Whether we like it or not. I don't think this "Pandora's Box" will be even partly closed with new regulations. Welcome to that "Wild, Wild, West" we were always warned about.