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1) You don't want to be ruined by the Jets
2) You want to run it back and win a Natty (we've seen this before in basketball and football)
3) Now that you're being paid a couple million in college, the difference between NFL salary and college salary isn't that big, you're already a millionaire. If you like college, if you want revenge on this season, if you think you can win it all, then I get why he'd want to come back. NFL will almost certainly still be there next year. This is the benefit of paying players, more good players and higher quality of play in college.
And CJF could be Fuente or Franklin
What sport did you do and what did you call your coaches? I was a swimmer and swimmers call their coaches by their first name. When I was a swim coach I wasn't "Coach Ben" I was just "Ben" to all my swimmers ages 6-18.
You made the right choice, those little girls grow up so fast!
Tough season for Liverpool :(
Not getting Guehi really screwed us, I think. And I haven't been impressed with the offensive pieces added. Losing Diaz and Nunez hurts more than I think people thought it would. The team just seems so unbalanced and Salah hasn't done jack shit most of the season. It's kind of remarkable the team is in 4th, honestly
We don't really know whether we pursued any of them, but there was no scuttlebutt that we were in any way involved on a number of them. That's where the leap is. Although, I'm not a subscriber to some of the recruiting insiders, so tell me if I'm wrong.
You posted this before the Grunk announcement (I'm playing catchup after travelling). Do you still feel like you'd prefer a 1 year QB or do you like Grunk? Personally, I like Grunk. It's also possible he shows out and becomes a one 1 year guy, but of the QBs available in the portal he was in the top group on my list regardless of years remaining.
It would be funny if the NCAA found out that he wasn't enrolled and denied him the ability to play though in not sure who this works since the CFBP isn't owned by the ncaa.
If it impacts the talent level on the field we absolutely should be concerned
This isn't my point, I never said we shouldn't be upset that this high potential player won't be suiting up for us. My point is that this doesn't signify bigger cracks in the foundation. You then responded that this will shape rhetoric from our rivals, and I responded I don't believe that rhetoric will hold. As Alum said above: "Consider me not worried about any long term fallout here."
THIS SHOULDNT HAPPEN. Bottom line.
Agreed. Bottom line. The only crack shown here is one that should be easily patched up.
He was supposed to be the man and was a possible starter but not THE starter
And RB (short yardage specialist)
247 employees saying he's an Edge, Tech Sideline saying he's a LB
Interesting
This has more comments than Peter's
No, he's listed as a starter
Virginia Tech Week 1 Depth Chart vs. No. 13 South Carolina pic.twitter.com/jXS4bw5EvO— Kolby Crawford (@kolby_crawford) August 26, 2025
Ehhh...it depends on their behavior... coaches tend to be judged largely on win percentage and not much more.
But Lane Kiffin is pretty much universally considered an opportunistic douche, Brian Kelly was roundly criticized for leaving Notre Dame on short notice for LSU.
Urban Meyer was viewed poorly considered a hypocrite for his retiring for "health reasons" only to take a job at Ohio State 2 years later.
On a lower level, the head coach at Ohio just got fired for having an inappropriate relationship.
ADs (at least the smart ones) tend to stay more in the background, but is anyone a fan of Pete Bevacqua at this point?? Gene Smith caught a decent amount of flack for his handling (or not so) of Meyer at OSU and the AD Woodward at LSU just got thrown to the wolves by the entire State. Long and short, when you hear about an AD, it is likely because something is going poorly and to say they have been immune to criticism isn't accurate.
TV Executives aren't criticized because no one knows who they are-- they don't have Twitter and Instagram accounts promoting themselves. When you get rich enough, you realize that bringing attention to yourself also tends to bring problems.
Everyone has the right to operate purely out of their own self-interest---at some point in time many of those people will be called "selfish" or "entitled" or possibly even "an asshole." My contention is being young and an athlete doesn't provide immunity from that.
But being a college football coach, network exec, AD, or agent, often does. Fans and (to a lesser degree as of late) the media often apply a purity test to the athlete that is not applied to any other role in college football.
Going all the way up the thread to the comment that triggered this line of comments:
[I] want players that actually want to get a degree and training for life after college.
I don't care if a player 'wants' a degree. I obviously do not want VT making sham classes for them a la UNC. But if a player wants to come to Virginia Tech and make his top 3 priorities (1) making money, (2) playing football and (3) partying, all while doing the bare minimum academically that VT asks of him, that's fine by me. I don't care.
Athletes are the only entity in this sport who are judged on their motivations. No other entity in the sport is expected to make decisions for anything other than financial reasons.
As long as the fans keep feeding the machine, there's really no entity out there that has an interest in stopping it
Everyone has the right to operate purely out of their own self-interest---at some point in time many of those people will be called "selfish" or "entitled" or possibly even "an asshole." My contention is being young and an athlete doesn't provide immunity from that.
You don't get to ruthlessly pursue NIL dollars and then simultaneously hide behind the shield of being a " just a young college student" when it suits you as well.
Let's also be clear that nearly all of these athletes get preferential treatment---free housing, state of the art athletic training centers, private dining centers with personalized nutrition, free tutors, ect., ect---and many were getting advantageous treatment well before college.
Ask the average college student if they would trade places with any D1 Athlete.....their existence isn't the miserable toil of exploitation that some want to make it out to be.
Yes, LB with playing experience.....hoping he is a plug-and-play.
I'll never complain about Double Rick James... But I'm sure others will....
Would love to know what degree he was "working towards" during one semester..
I really thought that Frank would work well with Totty, he's on thin ice. Arse walking the league doesn't help his case either.
In 1980 was 19 hours a week at minimum wage would get you room board and tuition at a 4 year state school. In 2015 it was 52 hours a week. Today it is 74 hours with national minimum wage and 48 with va minimum wage.
Thats insane to have a 48h a week job, with zero weeks off and you have to work 6days 8 hours a day snd go to class.
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