Football transfer

[bulldawg28]

Turner can't start for us. He's depth at best. He's similar to the kid this past year from up there. Can run a 40, but that's it. Plus, he'd have to sit. No point.

No point? We're offering safeties for next year and he's an SEC legit player. You don't go and play at Bama and be a scrub. Saban doesn't get desperate and offer just anyone.

[Johnson85]

Turner can't start for us. He's depth at best. He's similar to the kid this past year from up there. Can run a 40, but that's it. Plus, he'd have to sit. No point.

I wonder if all the new transfers will make the SEC reconsider imposing extra penalties on transferring in conference. It's going to help other conferences more when players that can't make it at Bama or UGA or LSU leave the conference. I guess Saban won't care; he'd rather the conference slate be easier and if they can't make it at Bama, they're probably not going to help OSU or Clemson beat them. But you'd think there'd be enough SEC schools losing instate recruits and watching them get buried at a blue blood and then not consider them when transferring because of the SEC specific rules would want to change those rules.

[bulldawg28]

I wonder if all the new transfers will make the SEC reconsider imposing extra penalties on transferring in conference. It's going to help other conferences more when players that can't make it at Bama or UGA or LSU leave the conference. I guess Saban won't care; he'd rather the conference slate be easier and if they can't make it at Bama, they're probably not going to help OSU or Clemson beat them. But you'd think there'd be enough SEC schools losing instate recruits and watching them get buried at a blue blood and then not consider them when transferring because of the SEC specific rules would want to change those rules.

The SEC should definitely throw out its rule. It's hard to understand how it's ruling has power above the NCAA.

[Johnson85]

The SEC should definitely throw out its rule. It's hard to understand how it's ruling has power above the NCAA.

They can have any conference specific rules they want that don't contradict NCAA rules. NCAA rule just puts minimums for eligibility as far as I know, so conferences can have additional requirements if they want.

[bulldawg28]

They can have any conference specific rules they want that don't contradict NCAA rules. NCAA rule just puts minimums for eligibility as far as I know, so conferences can have additional requirements if they want.

It still makes no sense.

[OLJWales]

It still makes no sense.

Yep, in the end you have to choose one or the other. I understand why the rule may be in place but allowing other conferences advantages over SEC transfers seems like the worst of the two.

[Johnson85]

It still makes no sense.

Not anymore. I think in the past, when transferring was rarer, it helped limit transfers some. If you wanted to leave, you had to sit out a year to go anywhere, so it was a reasonably painful decision, and making an in-SEC transfer sit out two years assured that it was even more painful, as it gave you less options for transferring without dropping down a level or leaving the area (ignoring some of the SEC/ACC overlap). Now when it's so easy and common to transfer, we just ensure we are losing athletes to other conferences.

[Cooterpoot]

No point? We're offering safeties for next year and he's an SEC legit player. You don't go and play at Bama and be a scrub. Saban doesn't get desperate and offer just anyone.

He barely touched the field in their blow outs. He's nothing special. Never was. He ran a great 40 time and nothing else. We've got three good safeties, maybe four if our injured Fr pans out. We've already got several lined up to come in.
Saban offers guys to keep them from other teams and then processes them.

[bulldawg28]

He barely touched the field in their blow outs. He's nothing special. Never was. He ran a great 40 time and nothing else. We've got three good safeties, maybe four if our injured Fr pans out. We've already got several lined up to come in.
Saban offers guys to keep them from other teams and then processes them.

Agreed with Saban.

[bulldawg28]

Not anymore. I think in the past, when transferring was rarer, it helped limit transfers some. If you wanted to leave, you had to sit out a year to go anywhere, so it was a reasonably painful decision, and making an in-SEC transfer sit out two years assured that it was even more painful, as it gave you less options for transferring without dropping down a level or leaving the area (ignoring some of the SEC/ACC overlap). Now when it's so easy and common to transfer, we just ensure we are losing athletes to other conferences.

Yep, made sense then.

[Hambone]

Turnage is going home to Oxford. Ole Miss bound

[BuckyIsAB****]

How does Alabama get the badass LB from Tennessee he would have made our defense one of the best in the league