Monkeypox

Is he? Or is he one of a million Air Raid guys in CFB these days who all do the same basic thing while the handful of actual good offensive coordinators/coaches are able to adapt, edit, adjust, and throw wrinkles into their offense? We are the same as Tech, just with less talent. Yes, we can put up points vs FCS and teams at a talent disadvantage, but otherwise, we're basically a team that couldn't win the Texas Bowl with Pat Mahomes at QB or score 10 points vs Fresno State with Cam Ward.

100%. It would actually be beneficial to be viewed as a stepping stone. We are just a last resort or a short-term grift.

But I trust UNLV’s coach more than ours.

We replaced Seth Littrell with Dollar Store Seth Littrell.

We should hire an OL coach.

Plenty of time left.

Good! The MGSF pays for that water!

$370 a night isn’t bad to get paid to stay in Lubbock. I’ve done it for less. Oh wait…

The research I did was reading the article posted.

When he exhausts his eligibility or runs out of classes to take, I guess. I just don’t know why in this particular situation I should be up in arms about it. This guys spent more than half of his college years rehabbing injuries, all while getting an education. It’s not like he’s played 9 years of games somehow. There are plenty of kids who are putting zero effort into classes and getting paid to be loosely associated with the colleges at which they are theoretically enrolled. I understand people hating that part of the system.

Let's just re-cap this guy's situation. He tore his ACL senior year of high school and spent his redshirt freshman year recovering from it. After his recovery, he was one of the group of Oregon football players who was hospitalized from rhabdomyolysis following their workouts. It can lead to permanent/longterm disability or death. He played in 2017, then broke his ankle in the 2018 opener. It required 3 surgeries and he missed most of 2018-2021 because of it. After his return in 2021, he tore his achilles tendon. He's gotten his Bachelor's and Master's from Oregon, and is donating money to a football team at a school for the deaf, as he suffers from an auditory processing disorder. Miami seems totally fine with him playing. The NCAA seems totally fine with him playing. He wants to play. He had been granted two extra years prior to the pandemic and the achilles injury. And THIS is the situation people are bitching about?

With a NLI, they will have to sit out if they transfer, barring a coaching change. There's a VERY significant difference in NLI vs verbal commitment. Sure, they can transfer out after they get there (one quarter/semester and release request), but they still risk losing a year of competition. Incoming freshmen on NLI is a completely different animal than transferring students.

When guys sign NLI, that means something. When they announce a commitment, it has never and will never mean anything. The only thing that's really changed with that is the transfer rules have softened. These are not the same animal at all. Transfers are always verbal until they enroll in classes. That's why some express trepidation in counting on someone who isn't going to enroll until Summer or Fall. If they were coming in the Spring, we'd have a better idea about the position within the week. As it is right now, we could end up SOL at the last possible minute. Happy with the talent and the commitment, but that doesn't mean we sit back like anything is done. But, I don't think the coaches are blind to that. They're taking the risk on talent, because that's what we have to do.

NCAA rules prohibit boosters from using the promise of NIL deals as an incentive to try to convince a prospect to attend or transfer to a particular school. LOL, you mean what almost all these schools are using it for?

FSU, Virginia, and Clemson brought in around $160m in revenue in 2022. That's top 15 territory. It's about revenue and eyeballs, and the top half of the P-whatevers bring in a lot more of it than the bottom half. That's why the the formation of the Super League is inevitable, IMO.

Yes, clearly we are not signing a transfer QB, as all the transfer QBs have committed and completed their transfers to their new universities already and nobody is left. I mean, I might expect this question in Spring or Summer, but right now...?

Yes.