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They absolutely are. Different sport obviously, but I mentioned before that my daughter's softball coach was fired after the end of her junior year. New coach brought in right away, and her first move was to ask every rising junior and senior to transfer. My daughter declined, but her two roommates transferred-- two days after they signed the lease for the coming year. Funny thing is in almost every case the replacement the coach brought in didn't produce as much as the girl that left. And of course my favorite part, after being featured in the pitching rotation her sophomore and junior years, she got 14 innings her senior year. ******* hate that coach and the school is never getting a dime from me again.
Back to the point- having gone through it from a parent's perspective, and seeing it happen everywhere in every sport... yes, absolutely yes, CJR is asking some players to transfer. Probably a lot of them. Football is probably the sport where this kind of roster management is most important. Margins are slim for coaches and the honeymoon is over quick.
Probably not. For some, it's just "a bridge too far..." (I'll let myself out)
Interesting take. What part of this season's 4-game losing streak (including to Colorado) made you think "man, we're *so* close ... just wait til next year!"??
Sorry to say, but if the staff couldn't bring home a conf champ with what we had coming back in 2021, I don't think CFP was going to happen anytime soon (and especially not next year).
That can't be true, right?
Penn State is known as Linebacker U. Ebel should consider himself lucky to be 3rd string there... unless Matt is just going to play way lesser talent over better talent just because?
This is all going to be SO interesting to watch pan out. If Ebel is starting at Linebacker U... those fans are in for a Matt Campbell special kind of season I tell ya.
Maybe Matt does care more about ruining ISU than he does about making PSU great? Wouldn't shock me honestly.
Praise Jesus indeed. Also, I have a peer at work that types IMs just like Cael's tweet. He puts a ! at the end of every sentence! Doesn't matter if it's to report that the servers are down! Or his best friend just got fired! Every single sentence! Always very excite!
Traitors all and not worth wasting breath or time on. Good riddance. Most will go to FCS as they were jumped up to P4 . If CJR can’t recruit we will be ready for G5 status! NIL is okay for players but fans get screwed. I don’t care what happens to any of these players who worship money!
did anyone else hear the rumor Brahmer already has a deal for 2 million to go to PSU
Awkward when we welcome in a large number of "traitors" in a few days/weeks
Good for him! Hope he plays at about the same level you'd expect for someone making $50k.
Wouldn't be surprised if so. Dude is a star and deserves it.
Fair enough. Think of ALL the injuries to our defensive backfield - which is what led to the Cinci loss (we let up SOOOO many big plays because we were decimated at that position and starting players who were VERY green!). Our offense was good enough to win the game had we had our "1st game of the season" defensive roster intact. Also, Rocco got injured BADLY in that game & it affected his effectiveness the rest of the year! Next year, had Campbell not left & we kept almost our entire roster (which I believe was very likely), that D-backfield & linebacking corps would have been extremely experienced and talented. With a healthy Rocco and another off-season of growth for the QB backups & receiving corps - our path to the B12 c'ship was looking pretty good.
That's got to be fake. Why would anyone pay roughly 7% of the 30 mil for for the entire team? I heard BB s named mentioned to Alabama, but nothing of actual news.
This is different from what is on the list here.
The one on the list is kicker Jace Gilbert, it just hasn't been updated for Jace Gilbert #2 yet
Softball and football are two different worlds. Football needs way more numbers and you have a coach moving up a level so most likely he's trying to keep everyone he can. Plus ISU is a team that doesn't seem to have a lot of attitude problems. I know another Big 12 school that went through this and the first thing the new coach did was try keep almost everyone and recruited them to stay. He still lost quite a few.
