Recruiting Football Talk VIII

[PlanetVolunteer]

Ok Rickey transferring is a big WTF

 

[VolGee4]

Is it strange to anyone else that Dubar doesn’t get more run? He plays well when he is in the game, to my eyes. I wonder if that period early in the season where he was hurt/sick put some weird taste in Barnes mouth.

Poor defense and shoots more per minute than others. He's only shooting like 28% from 3 this year.

 

[csprig9]

Seth littrell is on staff now

 

[screenthis]

Is it strange to anyone else that Dubar doesn’t get more run? He plays well when he is in the game, to my eyes. I wonder if that period early in the season where he was hurt/sick put some weird taste in Barnes mouth.

Thus far, I haven't been impressed. It looks like he still has a way to go to understand the system, seems a bit slow, and doesn't make the best decisions.

 

[JohnnyD1024]

 

[Rockytopoftheworld]

 

[VolsnCards5]

Regarding Rickey Gibson….I blame the people on this board that decided we needed a Bo Jackson argument in 2025.

He clearly saw that asinine conversation and decided we needed something better to discuss.

 

[tyonthefly93]

On Gibson…. It’s almost as if NIL contracts without consequences and Transfer portal doesn’t work. Big shocker. But thank goodness it’s equitable?

 

[JT3]

He would for sure since he can't transfer to another SEC school in the spring and play this season...unless that rule changed and I missed it. It'll be interesting to see how they handle it because he won't end up going through Spring practice if they don't work it out and that's not good for his development no matter what he ends up doing. The timing tells me he doesn't want to go anywhere and "his team" is risking him being behind on his development and forced to transfer to a non-SEC school.

Was about to stay the same. He would have had entered the portal last fall.

Which is why I think he ultimately plays for us this upcoming season. I think it will all work itself out.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

First 3 released episodes of Season 3 of Reacher. So good

Anthony Michael Hall as a “rug” dealer is awesome.

 

[JT3]

Another problem with all of this is for the university to spend thousands of dollars on someone who intends to portal in a couple of months. I am sure the school doesn't want to get bad publicity and wants to do what it can to appease the player, but that is totally against what we do with employees as well. Once they intend to leave, it's 2 weeks (or less in most situations) and gone.

It's an issue. Im pro player but damn they have too much leverage at this point. NCAA really shat the bed.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

How is this a good thing?

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

So now it’s looking lije the secondary is gonna take a huge step back. That’s just great. Let me guess money right?

 

[headhunter15]

This could help save Spring Games. However, I’m afraid schools are going to continue doing away with them because of the grind.

 

[DD4ME]

Guys, you donate to retain players like Gibson and attract players like McCoy. It’s the nature of the game—it sucks, but this isn’t just happening to us.

I shared Swain’s post because he’s as connected as anyone, and he didn’t seem concerned. He has been with other players. At this point, you either trust our leadership to navigate this well, or you don’t. I do.

As for the idea that sports are being ruined—that’s like saying America is ruined. I still prefer it over Canada. And I still love jacked-up college football more than the NFL or soccer.

I trust our leaders—Plowman, White, Heupel, Spyre, and the rest. Players are going to do what they can to maximize their opportunities. That’s just the reality. You can take it personally, but if it were your kid, you’d likely want the same for them.

 

[UTProf]

Inevitably I think this is the best thing for all sports and I hope I'm not wrong. Let the NCAA govern the other sports, especially the Olympic sports, and return to common sense conference alignments. Let football be independent and in a system where they can generate even more income to fuel the athletic departments and hekp fund other sports. Let football be in a governing body that can enforce common sense rules on participation, pay, and transfers in a way that NCAA legally can't.

As long as you’re ready for even more commercials and the death of a muckton of traditions. Much like NIL these moves aren’t being made for the sake of the players or the schools but for the agents and networks (those who make their money around the game not in it).

It’s not that these things don’t need to be fixed (they do) it’s just the parties who are seizing the moment don’t care about fixing anything. They care about lining their pockets.

 

[DaddyChad]

Ok Rickey transferring is a big WTF

Not really. His people shopped around and got more money even though he just signed a new deal

 

[DD4ME]

As long as you’re ready for even more commercials and the death of a muckton of traditions. Much like NIL these moves aren’t being made for the sake of the players or the schools but for the agents and networks (those who make their money around the game not in it).

It’s not that these things don’t need to be fixed (they do) it’s just the parties who are seizing the moment don’t care about fixing anything. They care about lining their pockets.

Man - we had one of the best most diverse playoffs ever. Tennessee made it too. I am all for gaurd rails like portal and transfer limitations and CBA, but I am hard pressed to say the changes have not made football more competitive across the board. I do hate to see regional rivalries be sacrificed, but thay never helped TN when we played Bama and UGA at their peaks. We'd all do it different or better, but I don’t opine for it to go back to the times Saban loved.

Weirdly we complain a lot but our athletics has profited more than almost any other. We are the wolves people worry about now.

 

[DD4ME]

"Reportedly"

 

[kemotoe]

Gibson is just doing what everybody else is doing. He has leverage. Gibson is good not great. We’ve had such subpar CB play before him that makes it seem worse than it is.

 

[Orange.]

Well I agree with that, and I think there's a legit case to be made that they benefited from Michigan's scouting work. We know Beamer had connections with Harbaugh's staff. We know Stallions had scouted and created dossiers of the Vols and Clemson as potential playoff opponents. He stood to financially benefit from selling that hard work and Michigan stood to competitively benefit from those two teams losing.

We also saw the SCar wristbands accidentally featured during the broadcast.

 

[Orange.]

Think you can still do any tricks?

TWHS

 

[DD4ME]

Oh chit

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

Not really. His people shopped around and got more money even though he just signed a new deal

Well I didn't know that.

We still haven't had a ton of gold starters leave like that.

This downright sucks. No other way to spin it, unless we can keep him.

They just have to make these guys employees. It's ridiculous.

They might as well if they're going to ruin everything else that has to do with college football.

 

[tnhunter 10]