ON TOPIC: Spring Football

[CatsbyAZ]

is some frosh or 4th year guy who has never done squat showing out in a practice game vs his own team really going to cause them to hit the portal and try to get more money? if that's where we are in this sport, just close to the whole thing down.

In this recent Josh Pate commentary on Nico Iamaleava leaving Tennessee, if you skip ahead to the 13 minute mark, he has an account of a Spring Game performance being used as NIL leverage:

“I had a head coach recently give me a story about a guy that wasn’t necessarily the best practice player. It wasn’t Tennessee. It wasn’t Nico…This head coach told me a guy that wasn’t one of their better practice players, not a great energy guy, not a terrific locker room guy, not a cancer…not a guy that they would promote as one of the faces of the program…But they have a Spring Game where he gets in and he’s a gamer…So Spring Game format being what it is, a lot of players get in that wouldn’t get in a real game; so he gets in and he shines and he pops a couple of times. Well reckon where he is the next day – he’s in the [NIL] collectives office; he wants $150,000 more dollars or he’s in the Portal.”

Yes, that’s where we are with this sport.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTuvzfRmCJ4

[bayareabadger]

I have some skepticism of a head coach who believes in spring game “gamers.”

[OrangeAfroMan]

You're barely on our roster and got 100 yards in the spring game and want more money??

[SFBadger96]

For the aTm fans around here in Big Ten country: DL #10, Marco Jones, Fr., Dublin, CA, is my former nextdoor neighbors' grandson. We weren't neighbors for all that long, but they are an awesome family. I think both of their girls were college athletes, including Marco's mom--his dad, I think, was also a college athlete. Both parents were (are?) Oakland PD cops. Anyway, go Marco!
https://12thman.com/sports/football/roster/marco-jones/14806
Paywall: https://texags.com/s/66955/marco-jones-speaks-on-his-strong-showing-in-the-maroon-white-game

[CatsbyAZ]

how is Jaden Rashada 5th?

On signing with Arizona State, Rashada was a Top 50 prospect nationally, and the 7th rated QB according to 247. Rashada deserves the bad advice that he's willing to take. Staying at Arizona State was his best option for a shot at the NFL.

Rashada is turned down by North Carolina, which might be a good thing because both would end up disappointing each other. UNC, because Rashada is dead weight. Rashada, because I'm expecting an awful season for UNC. (Belichick isn't serious about football these days.)

Turns out 247 has Rashada ranked the 205th best player left in the Portal? A far cry from 5th overall.

[Gigem]

For the aTm fans around here in Big Ten country: DL #10, Marco Jones, Fr., Dublin, CA, is my former nextdoor neighbors' grandson. We weren't neighbors for all that long, but they are an awesome family. I think both of their girls were college athletes, including Marco's mom--his dad, I think, was also a college athlete. Both parents were (are?) Oakland PD cops. Anyway, go Marco!
https://12thman.com/sports/football/roster/marco-jones/14806
Paywall: https://texags.com/s/66955/marco-jones-speaks-on-his-strong-showing-in-the-maroon-white-game

Nice.