The recent news about UF players entering the transfer portal has been eye opening. It's been bad for us, but a fact check shows how really crazy it is out there. Here's a list of all the Quarterbacks entering the portal. McCord from Ohio State isn't really a surprise, he under-performed and his stats are more about the players around him than his abilities. I'm was more surprised to see Dylan Gabriel from Oklahoma on the list. At least we seem to be keeping Mertz. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/college-footballs-best-quarterbacks-transfer-portal-2024 Just for fun I asked Bard to show me the reasons and their corresponding percentages players give for entering the portal. # Define reasons and their corresponding percentages reasons = { "Playing time": 40, "Academic opportunities": 20, "Coaching changes": 15, "Relationships with coaches": 10, "Location": 5, "Financial considerations": 5, "Seeking a higher level of competition": 3, "Personal growth": 2 } 65% of the reasons relate to coaches or playing time. If there is any truth to "Academic Opportunities", they we should be selling the school more. Money is under-valued. This was just for fun. Edited Link
The basic premise to most of the fans perusing here is going to be, okay "they" are being just as affected as us, so that means "they" will sink in the morass as much as us. And if misery truly does love company, we will have a "end of the world as we know it" party with all the contemporaries. OR... somehow certain contemporaries will withstand their losses without much of a glitch and remain in their level. And if "those guys" are the Bama/UGa/Clemson/ OSU/Oklahoma types, well then that explains it. But if it is the Baylor/TCU/ Oregon/Washington/Arkansas/aTm types, well then who exactly ARE our contemporaries? You know, the ones whose losses seem to never reach a viable floor and build towards a decent ceiling. As I posted in the post-game FSU thread, Tick...Tick...Tick...
very interesting strategy to ask AI, thanks for sharing these results. I would think financial considerations and academic opportunities would be reversed, but playing time and coaching considerations totally makes sense. it’s a real shame. College football as we knew it has terminal cancer, and all we can do is watch it slowly waste away.
I used to be a full-year college football junkie. I'm finding it increasingly hard to care about the sport outside of the actual games.
I’m guessing they were too embarrassed to admit it was just about money. it sounds a lot better to say they transferred for “academic opportunities“.
Most of them in their parting letters are too chickenshit to tell the truth while they scurry out the back door on their teammates. The truth would make most of them look bad but it’s still the truth.
I remember YEARS ago a HS player we thought we were going to get signed with UGa instead (if I recall correctly). His reason why he changed course? He wanted to study engineering. UGa did not have an engineering program, at least then. Players play. That does not mean that their acumen includes awareness. It is what it is.
When they say that it’s not about the money, they are correct. It’s about the amount of money$,$$$,$$$.00.
M “I am leaving because of my major blah, blah, blah, serve a higher purpose, blah blah blah, more opportunities for me and my family, blah blah blah, feel part of a community, blah blah blah. Oh and by the way, more money $$”
I vaguely remember this. PR 101 - if your spin is that you decommited or transferred for a specific degree, double check that the new school actually offers that degree before you post that garbage.
I’d let him walk as he won’t be in college much longer and will be gone before we can get Lagway on the field. We need kid in a bad way and rb is still not a weakness or priority in this roster. He’s very talented no doubt but he isn’t likely tge difference in winning games for us. A rb rarely makes that much of a difference. Bama and Georgia didn’t come down to who had the best rb and neither will these playoffs. Running backs, do not decide national championships and Super Bowls.
We are keeping Mertz because he only had 3 options. Stay Enter the draft Retire. He used his grad transfer to come to UF and he only has 1 yr of eligibility so he can't sit out.
There are a few scholars that get through on football, but so many of these football players pretend they belong at an educational institution like they earned that. If they couldn’t play football, they couldn’t even get into the school and have to be nudged through the system to stay eligible to be on the football team. Schools even make classes specially tailored for athletes so they can stay eligible.
