DiderotsGhost
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The players have probably known this was coming, but you typically don’t see announcements like this from players or coaching changes the day before the last game of the regular season against an in-state rival for a reason. I just see no benefit from him doing it now instead of after the game tomorrow.
Happened to me the first time I went to college. I was too busy being at college and not enough time being in college. Too much alcohol and chasing tail to make it to class. I guess I needed life to kick me in the azz before I got it together. Life lessons.there are more cases of this than most people can imagine.
So at what point do we toss the "student athlete" model?I think you misunderstand NIL. For some, there will be a true market exchange, and endorsement will foster business. By and large, NIL seems to be a way to move cash to players for on field performance, or the potential for same for recruits and transfers, that has little to do with actual advertising for the sponsor. In those cases, the wealthy alum is using the system to ensure the programs success , not build the alum’s business.
Per Basilio and a few others, UT got caught flat footed, thinking NIL was a year or so away. So very Tennessee.
The NFL doesn’t want that because they’d have to invest in it. They like having a free farm system via the NCAA. An alternative pre-NFL league would have to be created without NFL money. Given how many alternative football leagues have already failed though, I don’t see this happeningSo at what point do we toss the "student athlete" model?
Many here hate the NCAA restrictions. Who wouldn't? When do we just "tear off the band-aid" and admit, especially with NIL, these players are pro athletes, not student athletes, and re-brand D1 athletics as Developmental pro leagues?
It's been a poorly kept secret for decades that high quality athletes are getting paid in college and NIL is quickly (see: Ewers at Ohio State or Young at Bama) how silly the "student athlete" model is in today's market.
Let's ditch the NCAA, affiliate the teams with the NFL as developmental squads and get academics out of the picture.
Entering the portal gives him a chance to save face over being declared ineligible? Not sure that would look good to the NFL guys. If he's been accurately portrayed here, I'm sure his work ethic will be a huge red flag with scouts. Kid just didn't mature and take advantage of his opportunity. He's likely skated thru life on physical talent alone. When it becomes a business, he doesn't have the rest of the package. Waste of God given ability. He's got a lot of company. He will be a 40 year old nothing looking back playing the coulda, woulda, shoulda game.If the NFL was the plan there would be no need to enter the transfer portal.
Academically, it's well past the withdrawal without a grade stage and since the University played him, he had to still be enrolled. He's getting grades unless he gets an exemption of some kind.
I don't know if you went to college but you can't just magically "unenroll" at the end of a term to make your grades not be recorded. That's not how it works.
The NBA is doing it, reluctantly, but they're doing a developmental league and have been for awhile. They're getting some top recruits now and it's just a matter of time........ and college basketball is the NCAA cash cow. If it collapses, the NCAA collapses anyway.The NFL doesn’t want that because they’d have to invest in it. They like having a free farm system via the NCAA. An alternative pre-NFL league would have to be created without NFL money. Given how many alternative football leagues have already failed though, I don’t see this happening
Correct. But did he withdraw from school or just enter the transfer portal?I do not think that W's (for withdrawn) look any better on a transcript than F's.
Academically, it's well past the withdrawal without a grade stage and since the University played him, he had to still be enrolled. He's getting grades unless he gets an exemption of some kind.
I don't know if you went to college but you can't just magically "unenroll" at the end of a term to make your grades not be recorded. That's not how it works.
According to Basilio blog for Nov. 16th, “word” around K-town was that Evans was shutting down playing for UT to focus on getting ready for NFL draft. It was also rumored that he wasn’t focused on academics.He should have waited at least until after the Vandy game to do this to keep from being a distraction. I don’t know the situation, but it is crappy timing regardless.