Official Transfer in Thread

An NFL coach, I believe it was a coach, was asked how a team like Alabama would do playing an NFL team. He said, essentially, the worst record team in the NFL would destroy the best college team. Just another level of competition - and parity in the NFL, despite a teams record, is closer than you'd think.
Every few years some idiot makes this “College NC could beat the <worst pro team>” and it is an idiotic statement. The worst NFL team would ööööing SMASH a college team. It wouldn’t be close.
 
My understanding is there is actually nothing to "sign" for a transfer, they just enroll in school and start classes. Not all transfers enter in the spring, so the ones who will join the class in summer semester technically will not have "signed" yet. I guess that leaves the door open for them to potentially go somewhere else, but not sure because there is nothing a transfer actually "signs" when they commit until they enroll and register.

But as a side note... I can verify the following that say "not yet signed" are all enrolled at GT for Spring:

Jordan Brown
Abdul Janneh
Christian Leary
Etinosa Reuben

The only transfer not in yet is Seither, but by all accounts I expect he will be registered and in classes tomorrow (today is a holiday). Chase Lane is also not officially in yet, but it was known he is finishing out his spring semester at Texas A&M and will join the class in the Summer.
I think we had 2 DL transfer commits switch to other teams over last spring didn't we? Or was that over the season after Collins was fired?
 
You say that like it's a ball bouncing one way or the other and not the difference between programs that takes years to build up.
You somehow read something into my comment that is t there. As for depth, it shouldn't take more than 5-7 years to build the depth to compete with anybody.
 
To bypass need based scholarships solely to give athletes full rides is cheating

Then basically the entire Ivy League is "cheating." There's plenty of literature out there if you're actually interested in learning more, but in a nutshell, athletes at Ivies are generally receiving a ton of financial aid, to the extent that the lack of an athletic scholarship is basically a technicality.

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An NFL coach, I believe it was a coach, was asked how a team like Alabama would do playing an NFL team. He said, essentially, the worst record team in the NFL would destroy the best college team. Just another level of competition - and parity in the NFL, despite a teams record, is closer than you'd think.
I remember a conversation about this same thing from Hugh Douglas on a 92.9 segment about the dwags last year. He said they’d get shut out because the speed of the NFL game would dominate them.
 
Then basically the entire Ivy League is "cheating." There's plenty of literature out there if you're actually interested in learning more, but in a nutshell, athletes at Ivies are generally receiving a ton of financial aid, to the extent that the lack of an athletic scholarship is basically a technicality.

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“Harvard has a financial aid policy which states that if your parents make less than $65,000 a year, if you apply and pass Harvard's stringent academic requirements, you can attend school for free.”

Literally from your source you sent.
 
I’m a professional arm chair QB, so does that count?
Depends, would you have won the Super Bowl for the Falcon's, given a 28-3 lead in the 3rd?

Better yet, beat UGAg up 20-0 in the 2nd?
 
“Harvard has a financial aid policy which states that if your parents make less than $65,000 a year, if you apply and pass Harvard's stringent academic requirements, you can attend school for free.”

Literally from your source you sent.
If that is all you saw in that article, there is a zero percent chance anyone at Cornell wanted you. I know 3rd graders with better reading comprehension.
 
“Harvard has a financial aid policy which states that if your parents make less than $65,000 a year, if you apply and pass Harvard's stringent academic requirements, you can attend school for free.”

Literally from your source you sent.
I have stayed away from this öööö show for the last however many pages it's turned into crap, but damn it is very evident and has been pointed out to you in several threads now that your reading comprehension is severely lacking. Do you even know what you are arguing about? It appears you do not. The basis of that article linked above and the basis of the argument presented to you in this thread is this:

Many Ivy league schools are using their wealth to offer full or partial scholarships to kids from low-income families. Many of these schools are also taking advantage of this by purposefully recruiting athletes that meet this criteria, getting them in school on a "income-based" scholarship, and essentially letting them "walk-on" to the football team, even though they are not paying tuition and have been recruited. They are basically skirting the athletic scholarship limit by using income-based scholarships to get more athletes in school.
 
öööö me right in the öööö hole. Another thread sent to the ignore list thanks to dip öööös.
You'll be OK. It's the offseason. There are literally only a few active football threads right now.
 
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I have stayed away from this öööö show for the last however many pages it's turned into crap, but damn it is very evident and has been pointed out to you in several threads now that your reading comprehension is severely lacking. Do you even know what you are arguing about? It appears you do not. The basis of that article linked above and the basis of the argument presented to you in this thread is this:

Many Ivy league schools are using their wealth to offer full or partial scholarships to kids from low-income families. Many of these schools are also taking advantage of this by purposefully recruiting athletes that meet this criteria, getting them in school on a "income-based" scholarship, and essentially letting them "walk-on" to the football team, even though they are not paying tuition and have been recruited. They are basically skirting the athletic scholarship limit by using income-based scholarships to get more athletes in school.
Don't know how things might be different than in 1996-2000 but in that time frame no athletics scholarships were given. Each student's parents submitted financial statements and each and every student was given some amount of a grant and the parents had a "responsibility", as the school termed it. All income based.
 
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Don't know how things might be different than in 1996-2000 but in that time frame no athletics scholarships were given. Each student's parents submitted financial statements and each and every student was given some amount of a grant and the parents had a "responsibility", as the school termed it. All income based.
Never doubt Harvard's desire to defeat Yale at football, baseball, rowing......there have always been scholarships given based on "beat Yale" and vise versa
 
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Don't know how things might be different than in 1996-2000 but in that time frame no athletics scholarships were given. Each student's parents submitted financial statements and each and every student was given some amount of a grant and the parents had a "responsibility", as the school termed it. All income based.
I understand they don't call them "athletic" scholarships. That is their loophole. But they are 100% recruiting athletes, many of whom they know will fall in the "low-income" bracket and be eligible for full or nearly full-tuition grants.
 
I understand they don't call them "athletic" scholarships. That is their loophole. But they are 100% recruiting athletes, many of whom they know will fall in the "low-income" bracket and be eligible for full or nearly full-tuition grants.
Pretty much almost everyone falls into "low income" when it comes to affording an Ivy League school.
 
I understand they don't call them "athletic" scholarships. That is their loophole. But they are 100% recruiting athletes, many of whom they know will fall in the "low-income" bracket and be eligible for full or nearly full-tuition grants.
Yes, that's probably how they all work out. I was merely pointing out that all students were given grants based on family income and we all know how they parse their definition based their desired sports outcomes.
 
“Harvard has a financial aid policy which states that if your parents make less than $65,000 a year, if you apply and pass Harvard's stringent academic requirements, you can attend school for free.”

Literally from your source you sent.

Did you stop reading after that quote?
 
I have stayed away from this öööö show for the last however many pages it's turned into crap, but damn it is very evident and has been pointed out to you in several threads now that your reading comprehension is severely lacking. Do you even know what you are arguing about? It appears you do not. The basis of that article linked above and the basis of the argument presented to you in this thread is this:

Many Ivy league schools are using their wealth to offer full or partial scholarships to kids from low-income families. Many of these schools are also taking advantage of this by purposefully recruiting athletes that meet this criteria, getting them in school on a "income-based" scholarship, and essentially letting them "walk-on" to the football team, even though they are not paying tuition and have been recruited. They are basically skirting the athletic scholarship limit by using income-based scholarships to get more athletes in school.

He's trying to argue that Cornell offered him a spot on the football team but he couldn't go because his family made too much money, completely ignoring that if money was actually an obstacle, Cornell would have easily found the financial means to make it work per their sliding scale.

And my apologies, everyone, for re-derailing this thread. I had the foolish notion that providing a concrete source might help our friend from C-N see the light, but I should have anticipated he would cherrypick the one quote that, in insolation, supports his erroneous position.
 
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