Goodbye Transfer Waivers?

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Goodbye Transfer Waivers?

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All the Ivy League needs to become relevant again is to diversify its OOC schedule.
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The horse is out of the barn. The days of schools being able to greatly restrict kids and transferring is over, and we're better for it. If a kid wants to transfer, so be it. More power to the player and less power to the coach and the school to dictate what that player can do. :thumb:
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Yeah, they’re going to struggle to put that toothpaste back into the tube....
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AZGrizFan wrote:Yeah, they’re going to struggle to put that toothpaste back into the tube....
Yeah, it’ll be like shoveling hot butter up a wildcat’s butt


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GannonFan wrote:
The horse is out of the barn. The days of schools being able to greatly restrict kids and transferring is over, and we're better for it. If a kid wants to transfer, so be it. More power to the player and less power to the coach and the school to dictate what that player can do. :thumb:
Ha.

Get ready to see more grayshirting and teams signing more players than they need then tossing away excesses. It used to be you could only get away with that if you were an Alabama or Ohio State, but it will become more the norm if transfer attrition becomes a problem. Loyalty is a two-way street.
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GannonFan wrote:
The horse is out of the barn. The days of schools being able to greatly restrict kids and transferring is over, and we're better for it. If a kid wants to transfer, so be it. More power to the player and less power to the coach and the school to dictate what that player can do. :thumb:
I think you're right but I still struggle with the idea of a smaller school taking a chance on a raw talent that is passed over by everyone else, spending precious money and time recruiting him, and then developing him into a student athlete and providing that kid a college degree. I'll admit I'm biased because of Taiwan Jones and Vernon Adams.

Taiwan wasn't a grad transfer, he just left early for the draft but he's still an example of what can happen. He had undiagnosed dyslexia which led him to be a prop 48 kid. Our running backs coach at the time, Chris Hansen recruited him, got him to a doctor, where he was diagnosed, and then spent his prop year helping him get his grades up. That's an unspoken part of coaching that many fans don't see.

Gubrud was a preferred walk on from McMinville, OR who the Ducks, Beavs, and PSU all passed over. He'll now more than likely be starting in Leach's Air Raid offense at WSU, putting up video game numbers like Minschew did last year and beat the Ducks and Beavs. Would Gubrud have arrived to this point without being coached up by the likes of Beau Baldwin and playing with 3 NFL wide receivers at EWU including Cooper Kupp who was also passed over by pretty much everyone (his only other offer was PSU)?

I realize there are solid and correct counters to this point not the least of which would have been Gubrud probably sitting out his senior year behind Barriere. But not every FCS program has two Pac-12 QB's on their roster. It just still rubs me the wrong way.
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