Portal thread. Who’s leaving, who’s coming.

[vegashog]

Ty is clearly following the money.  Has nothing to do with anything else.

a guy that could never get on the field, yep, has to be some mystery why he would transfer. like someone else said, enjoy running out your eligibility at north texas.

[BleedinRed]

I'm just funning with you guys.  

[animal]

Ty Crawford. He gone.

How in the hell can that guy possibly have time left

*Theory I'm developing in my head is they told him to suit up he's going to Memphis and he bailed.

[DirkPiggler]

Ty is clearly following the money.  Has nothing to do with anything else.

Our old friend Wallyhog has been machine gun shitposting on the Rivals board of late defending his brother in girth Pittman and bemoaning our poverty program. 

One of his gems was that we "lost" Andrew Chamblee and Paris Patterson (who?) because SMU outbid us to have them as 2nd and 3rd teamers on their offensive line.  That if only we'd come up with more money we could have kept the worst left tackle in the SEC and a guy who couldn't crack the two deep on the worst OL in power five football last year.  I guess if all of us had just ponied up the $100/month to Edge we could've had them riding pine here. 

[vegashog]

I'm just funning with you guys. 

and i bit. 

[Son of Spam]

Hell, Memphis finished #25 in the top 25. Let that shit sink in.

[animal]

Bottom line is people can now vote with their wallet and when we see or suspect how poorly spent that money is even less of it will return. At some point the people doing the hiring and firing will be forced to make a move. The flip side to that is nobody will come here to coach if it's clear Arkansas will not engage in this type of bidding war for players.

The ONLY reason Cal is here is because of Tyson chicken and other assurances made to him. The next coach will want a clear understanding of what he can expect in terms of a pool of money for NIL.

[vegashog]

i don't subscribe to any pay boards but some guy on one who knows dj metcalf personally said he told him he got a substantially bigger offer and told the coaches he was going to the portal but they have a chance to match it so he comes back.

that seems to be where college football is at right now.

wright's bbq also said he stopped by friday and got his check but didn't say anything about the portal, lol.

[DirkPiggler]

i don't subscribe to any pay boards but some guy on one who knows dj metcalf personally said he told him he got a substantially bigger offer and told the coaches he was going to the portal but they have a chance to match it so he comes back.

that seems to be where college football is at right now.

wright's bbq also said he stopped by friday and got his check but didn't say anything about the portal, lol.

He's one I'd like to see us pay up to keep if this is true. 

[Show-Me Hog]

Is there a chance the academic side will try to get some control over this and stop approving admission for athletes with 2-3-4 transfers? How do their transcripts even qualify anyway?

[Hogfan58]

Instead of listing players who are leaving or have left, they should be telling us all the ones that are staying, since we've probably never heard of 90% of them.

[vegashog]

Is there a chance the academic side will try to get some control over this and stop approving admission for athletes with 2-3-4 transfers? How do their transcripts even qualify anyway?

there's rules in place that say they have to be academically eligible.

i'm sure sports communication and park management requirements aren't too stringent.

[mde114]

Is there a chance the academic side will try to get some control over this and stop approving admission for athletes with 2-3-4 transfers? How do their transcripts even qualify anyway?

rASciSt!!!

[BleedinRed]

Is there a chance the academic side will try to get some control over this and stop approving admission for athletes with 2-3-4 transfers? How do their transcripts even qualify anyway?

Great question and one I hadn't thought of before.  I doubt the academic side gets to really have a say when it comes to the money making sports side though.

[DirkPiggler]

Is there a chance the academic side will try to get some control over this and stop approving admission for athletes with 2-3-4 transfers? How do their transcripts even qualify anyway?

Assuming you're not talking about the U of A specifically but all universities, but do you really think that schools who have allowed exceptions to their admissions policies (even the nerd schools like you Duke) for kids who were barely literate are going to all of a sudden gain a moral compass?  Jerrell Powe couldn't read his own name yet Ole Miss found a way to get him eligible.  They aren't telling some 5-star transfer with 90 hours of freshman level coursework that he can't come to The Sip.

[Show-Me Hog]

rASciSt!!!

This is the right answer, since math and grades are also racist.

[Lurk]

i don't subscribe to any pay boards but some guy on one who knows dj metcalf personally said he told him he got a substantially bigger offer and told the coaches he was going to the portal but they have a chance to match it so he comes back.

that seems to be where college football is at right now.

wright's bbq also said he stopped by friday and got his check but didn't say anything about the portal, lol.

How is that not tampering? That's rhetorical, the NCAA has no teeth anymore.

[Doc Hogaday]

listen to kiffin or stay in denial:

"You take a 17-year-old who, a lot of them, don't come from money and family doesn't come from money ... if any person tells you that their NIL is not the No. 1 thing ... take 100 of them and ask about the No. 1 thing that's going to make the decision ... it's not the size of the stadium, not the head coach, not the campus or the conference, the No. 1 thing will be money."

"It's totally changed recruiting. I joke all the time about it. Facilities and all that. Go ahead and build facilities and these great weight rooms and training rooms, but you ain't gonna have any good players in them if you don't have NIL money. I don't care who the coach is or how hard you recruit, that is not going to win over money."

#GodsPlan

[bigpig]

I don't really care if we have 100% roster turnover year after year.

I just want to win.


I have no interest in having to watch the same squad of underachievers and screw-ups four years in a row, who can never do better than 7-5.

On the other hand, if we have a team full of people I've never heard of, but they take us to the mountaintop... I'll make the time to learn their names and remember them fondly.

[The Whyte Boar]

How is that not tampering? That's rhetorical, the NCAA has no teeth anymore.

They're not calling up the kids.  They're talking to agents.  It's no more tampering than kicking an agent's tires to gauge a coach's interest in a job during a season. 

Without some sort of anti-trust exemption or collective bargaining this whole thing will implode soon enough.