EagleMountainUte

And that lack of motivation is why most of them will be broke by the time they’re 30. Even the vast majority of guys that have normal NFL careers are essentially broke 4-5 years after the money stops flowing in. Just because you can make a lot of money in a short period of time doesn’t mean that you’ll be rich forever.

How Athletes Go Bankrupt…[Read more]

He’s going to depart the largest media market in the country and get a better deal somewhere else? Where? I can’t think of any school in the nation that has deeper pockets and could offer him more unless you’re talking about Stanford and the Ivys and they surely don’t play that geme. Fact is, from my view, that Williams played his hand as well…[Read more]

Eagle, I disagree with you but only in a certain sense. Does Caleb Williams specifically need USC? Probably not, but he does need a platform to develop his brand and gain notoriety. No corporation is paying him millions of dollars just because he’s Caleb Williams or a nice person. They’re paying because he’s the great QB at a glamour school.…[Read more]

Do some of these athletes that keep transferring even really get educated?

It’s hard to see how they could. Most people studying for a legitimate degree have a moderate to hard time trying to learn and get good grades while in a stable environment.

I think, at the end. that’s the way it’s going to go. No school, whether they be a Blueblood or not, is immune from this and they’ll all eventually come to an agreement that will help maintain the status quo.

Well, you know for certain that anyone that’s eligible for the NFL draft from Georgia is also going to be sitting out. There’s no reason this can’t be a close game.

I’ve said in the past that what’s going to happen is that scholarships/NIL are going to be like contracts. You want to come to USC? Fine, sign here on this contract that commits you to four years. Oh, you don’t want to do that? Fine…good luck finding better terms somewhere else.

You can do it Jim…I used to be a huge baseball fan growing up all the way to about three years ago. They made a few changes that pissed me off and I swore them off. At first it was hard but, with time, baseball became irrelevant in my life and I haven’t watched a game in years. I occasionally catch highlights of games on YouTube but that’s as…[Read more]

There’s more to it than that…getting drafted in the later rounds means that a team can get rid of you easier because they haven’t invested much in you. You don’t get many chances to survive training camp mistakes or injuries as a sixth or seventh round draft pick. I checked the stats and, shocker, players taken in the sixth and seventh-rounds…[Read more]

Yeap…we think he’s the cat’s meow because he’s our guy and we see him on a weekly basis bit you’re right…not the right time for him to considering the competition and the fact that he regressed in his statistical performance. I have no doubt that he can play in the NFL and will make some team very happy but that will be because that team got…[Read more]

With Kincaid and Rising, one of my favorite Utah players ever…I just hope that he made the right decision…I trust PFF on this and they have him at this moment as the 202nd ranked player in the 2024 draft. That would put him getting drafted in the middle of the sixth round. By way of context, PFF has Sataoa Laumea as the 121st ranked player…[Read more]

Plus NIL was in its infancy two years ago when that happened. I don’t think anyone then would have ventured that college football would essentially become play for pay. There really weren’t people pushing the envelope, actively contacting players, or huge numbers of players entering the portal.

I didn’t understand it UNLESS he already had his degree from Utah. Barnes is not even good enough to play in the XFL so he’s going to have to prepare for civilian life. In that case, leaving Utah without his degree to go to a lower academically ranked G5 or FCS school didn’t make sense to me. This, especially since he’s a guy who’s probably…[Read more]

That’s right…he wants to be BMOC. Having that Utah degree prior to transferring, I think, was key on his move. Oh well, I’ll always have his Pig Farmer T-shirt.

I totally get that. When I was growing up in Miami in the 70s, the Dolphins were the only game in town. However, I liked all sports. As a consequence of that, I became a big fan of the Washington Bullets, NY Yankees, and NY Islanders. Those allegiances remained well until adulthood but shifted once Miami got teams in all of the major sports.

He’s got good stats against FCS competition. He passed for 1700 yards and ran for 1200 this past season. Is Utah really going to change their offense so their QB can rush the ball 200 times a season?

Holy Cross? That’s a FCS school. Just saying…

Not to mention how you’d be viewed by individuals who actually went to those universities. I know it’s probably wrong, but even today I don’t fully get people who say that they are, say Miami Dolphins’ fans, but have zero connection to the city of Miami.