Ivey in the portal.

Good riddance. Any mom involved in twitter wars is as narcissistic as the self idolizing spoiled players swapping teams as fast as they can so they can enjoy a re-do of putting on a hat, "committing" again and saying they are "blessed to be a part of their new team." I am no Collins fan, but he is the coach for next year, and he doesn't need any player who is listening to coach mommy or daddy and half-assing it because he's pissed about this or that.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Is the $ sign implying that he’s for real left to try to see what he could make on the open market?
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I guess he probably has multiple reasons, but I am sure he will have an NIL deal in place wherever he goes. I would like to think GT could have put something together for him, but maybe they let him walk. I just put the $ sign because those 3 schools have a lot of it and we know the U and Ole Miss' history with this stuff. They were doing it before it was legal.
 
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Why in the hell would a fan fight with a player or player's family on social media? Idiotic.
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The Wasp said:
Good riddance. Any mom involved in twitter wars is as narcissistic as the self idolizing spoiled players swapping teams as fast as they can so they can enjoy a re-do of putting on a hat, "committing" again and saying they are "blessed to be a part of their new team." I am no Collins fan, but he is the coach for next year, and he doesn't need any player who is listening to coach mommy or daddy and half-assing it because he's pissed about this or that.
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This parents getting intimately involved in their kids sports started decades ago. When I grew up I rode my bike from school to practice (unless practice was at school), I rode my bike home. Parents would sit in stands on game days and cheer their kids on. Coaches coached. Limited parental involvement & we learned from the process.

Nowadays, parents lay down big coin. They harass coaches if Johnny does not start, play enough, gets the wrong position, etc. They fight with other fans, particularly other parents their kids are in direct competition with. It’s organized and business from a very early age. It’s going to become business with pre-teens before we know it.

These people like the Ivys are not emotionally ready & often do not have the skills to navigate an increasing more publicly visible terrain. It ends up with Ivey Moms, maybe not even being wrong but flinging their raw feelings out there for public scrutiny, having their lives which are personal to them ending up being discussed by everyone that has even a fleeting interest that has access to a social media platform. I feel for her.

When they were just student athletes it was one thing, then the backdoor bag men ratchted up the ante, now we got NIL. These are now paid professionals & with that comes all the accountability good & bad. It’s happening to families who’ve never lived this life, a kid that’s probably emotionally immature, playing a high stakes game. This rarely ends well. The odds are long.

Sad for Ivey & his family, sad for us GT fans, and sad for society in general. This is not how it should go.
 
Hope the coaches knew so they could plan accordingly for NSD or transfer....if not- that's difficult to scramble and replace a player that had significant snaps.

Can a player transfer at any time? Wonder if they might limit that to certain calendar windows (kinda like NSD 1 and NSD 2) at some point?
 
covingtonjacket said:
Why in the hell would a fan fight with a player or player's family on social media? Idiotic.
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She picked that fight. There are a lot of dumbasses on that site, but she was 100% in the wrong.

I remember her being right about a couple of things, but it was still a dumb thing to do.
 
So who is gonna start the Georgia Tech, LLC that consolidates fan donations to use towards NIL deals? That’s where our money should go, rather than directly to the athletic department. That’s the landscape of college athletics. Time to embrace it.
 
What is happening is that the NCAA has gone pro. Players get paid in several ways. Tickets are expensive If fans think that there's not enough accountability in the program, then they will either quit coming, or boo. With big bucks, there will always be an accounting. The people who have demanded the money don't like the accountability. And I'm not just talking about players. Even fans who have supported all of these changes to college football don't seem to like the product that they now have. It used to be better. But don't expect the people who support it in whatever way they do, to sit quietly in the stands when there are 9 wins in 3 seasons. It's not going to happen. People can whine about the fans all they want. If there aren't fans, who's going to foot the bill? People who are the recipients of their largesse don't get to dictate to the suppliers of it. At some point, reality needs to set in. You can't have it both ways. College football can either be oldest division of kid football, or the minor league for pro football. It can't be both, simultaneously. This is especially true in the big city. There are better things to do than watching something being done badly. It doesn't matter how I feel about it. It just is.
 
getoffthewreck said:
What is happening is that the NCAA has gone pro. Players get paid in several ways. Tickets are expensive If fans think that there's not enough accountability in the program, then they will either quit coming, or boo. With big bucks, there will always be an accounting. The people who have demanded the money don't like the accountability. And I'm not just talking about players. Even fans who have supported all of these changes to college football don't seem to like the product that they now have. It used to be better. But don't expect the people who support it in whatever way they do, to sit quietly in the stands when there are 9 wins in 3 seasons. It's not going to happen. People can whine about the fans all they want. If there aren't fans, who's going to foot the bill? People who are the recipients of their largesse don't get to dictate to the suppliers of it. At some point, reality needs to set in. You can't have it both ways. College football can either be oldest division of kid football, or the minor league for pro football. It can't be both, simultaneously. This is especially true in the big city. There are better things to do than watching something being done badly. It doesn't matter how I feel about it. It just is.
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Extremely well communicated.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
So who is gonna start the Georgia Tech, LLC that consolidates fan donations to use towards NIL deals? That’s where our money should go, rather than directly to the athletic department. That’s the landscape of college athletics. Time to embrace it.
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The few dollars you throw at the wall aren’t going to have any impact compared to what you are fighting against.
 
The Champ said:
The few dollars you throw at the wall aren’t going to have any impact compared to what you are fighting against.
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So give up then? Or accept that it is what it is and we should no longer expect 8+ win seasons as a fan base?
 
JoeCakeEater said:
So give up then? Or accept that it is what it is and we should no longer expect 8+ win seasons as a fan base?
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Just think your money would be better invested supporting the athletics department than throwing money at players. We don’t raise a lot of money as it is, I wouldn’t divert those funds away from financial stability, facilities, infrastructure. At least then you are contributing to the institution; and not to someone selling themselves to the highest bidder. GT should focus on ourselves and what differentiates us, not trying to be Texas AM.
 
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B said:
The tension between the various and sundry moms and the GT fans who post here can be amusing. But on occasion there are casualties . As Pat Benetar said prophetically many years ago...Love IS a battlefield. Sometimes there are people who do indeed die in friendly fire. But the games however must go on. Next mom up.
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Collins has had a lot of defections for a supposed player's coach. Haven't seen the same with Pastner in basketball. Sjolund is the only bball transfer I can think of.
 
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