The new DC contacted this guy per the article ... does that constitute tampering or is it considered legal ?
https://www.redcuprebellion.com/2020...ebacker-safety
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The new DC contacted this guy per the article ... does that constitute tampering or is it considered legal ?
https://www.redcuprebellion.com/2020...ebacker-safety
No idea. It's free agency now. So who knows.
Nothing will be done either way. Looks like a good pickup for OM
Man, two years through the naval academy and now transferring to presumably get a degree from Ole Miss.
That's a pretty brutal step down. I know the degree from the naval academy comes with a service commitment (not sure what happens to his commitment after tranferring? Do people that transfer out just have to pay tuition for while they were there, which maybe is considered already paid for by a football scholarship for him?), but that's a degree that will carry weight for life.
ETA: googled and apparently you don't incur a service obligation until you start your third year, but maybe have to pay back some incidental costs that were paid for you.
I get it.
Once you become a JR in the Navy, you're committed to the 4 years or service afterwards.
By doing this, he doesn't have to do that
I wasn't meaning to say he was transferring for the purpose of getting a UM degree. I meant he will presumably graduate from there since he was a good enough student to get into the naval academy and it seems unlikely that he could say, go use his last two years of eligiblity at UM and then transfer as a fifth year senior to a better school to get his actual degree from.
A Naval Academy degree is near Ivy League status. That is a stupid decision unless he is sure fire NFL.
A person needs to be of high character to get into any of the service academy's. To get into ole miss I would think just being a character would be enough. That is a big drop in quality of education.
I mean, avoiding a 5 year commitment to active service after graduation is a huge deal. I can see why somebody would be willing to downgrade their degree in order to avoid that. I wouldn't have been wiling to do that when I was 20. But with the benefit of hindsight, it's a lot easier to see that it's a good tradeoff.
ETA: had wrong pay numbers. Looks like it's more like $55k, not 70's. Still not horrible but not that great for somebody graduating from one of the most prestigious universities out there.
Didn't we have a LB in the early 90s who did a couple of years at the USAFA and transferred to MSU?