One day I’m going to tell my kids when players actually signed their LOIs on the national signing day.
Word of the day: Haptic.
STRONG CROWD. Here’s a puzzle: last week, Ohio State beat Penn State and Michigan State to extend its hot streak in six games to six wins, earning the Buckeye a No. 7 spot in the AP poll. has.
… and their national title chance somehow passed off.
Yes, the sports book BetOnline.ag last week gave 33/1 a chance to win the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. As of yesterday, it is 40/1.
To be honest, everyone’s chances also dropped. Only the top four teams and Alabama (who lost his last game by five?) Increased their chances. Betters are therefore just more and more convinced that one of the teams will win the Natty.
It is good. Keep doubting Zed Key and the Buckeyes. Before you know it, they’ll cut the nets.
MUST DO SOMETHING. You can easily make a solid top-10 list of the wildest and most unprecedented things that would happen in college football in 2020.
But my personal favorite is when the NCAA gives each player an extra season to qualify without considering the long-term roster, recruiting and financial consequences.
But now, almost six months later, they realize that there are going to be problems in the years to come.
The transfer storm is expected to continue into next year’s cycle, not only because of the one-time exception transfer, but also because of a COVID-19-inspired rule that allows each athlete an extra year. While the seniors returning for next season do not count the 85 bursary limit of a team, players of all future classes do.
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Players who were juniors in the fall of 2020 and would normally have graduated by the 2022 season now have the option to return as fifth or even sixth year seniors. They will count against the 85. Meanwhile, some first-year classes in 2021 will be huge: 25 incoming first-years will be paired with about 25 first-years with a ‘COVID shirt’ (first-year students who were first-years during 2020) for a 50-person rookie class. This leaves 35 study shifts for three classes.
Although teams can have 85 players on scholarship annually, they can only sign 25 new players per year. The 100 participants over four years leave a 15-player wrap-around space for natural attenuation. New transfer legislation and the impending COVID shear wave are causing unnatural weakening.
In the 2022 and 2023 recruitment cycles, coaches have one of two choices: to retain their bursary players and add fewer signatories, or to oust bursary players and sign a normal class.
‘The biggest challenge is these juniors who are going to become seniors [in 2022]”Says Coastal Carolina coach Jamey Chadwell. “It’s going to be tough discussions.”
The whole piece works excellently to emphasize how there are not yet nearly enough timetable places available for children who think they are going to make transfers, and it is previously you give each player an extra season to qualify for at least four classes and allow a free one-off transfer for all players.
Unless the NCAA does something about the 85 scholarship limit, it will be a total disaster within a few years and will almost certainly cost a number of children’s college degrees that they would otherwise have received.
I want to take my players extra into account – that’s good. But if you do it without changing the limit size, it will leave many children hanging to dry.
OBEY YOUR PARENTS. Aaron Craft has not worn a Buckeye uniform for almost seven years and has not even played under Chris Holtmann, but you would be wrong if you think he has not had a stroke in that locker room yet.
Shark @ dwizthekid4 can we tidy up the space ?!
– Aaron Craft (@ ACraft4) 28 January 2021
How is it? @ ACraft4 pic.twitter.com/ligleKBZLS
– Duane Washington Jr. (@ dwizthekid4) 2 February 2021
Aaron Craft must return to the program as team manager. I’m sure medical school and fatherhood is hard, but priorities are priorities.
IT WAS FAST. Yesterday, EA Sports announced that it will be making a college football game again. And the Ohio State graphics team wasted absolutely no time turning it into a recruiting event.
– Dallan Hayden1 (@ DCH__2) 2 February 2021
The ABCs of Ohio State Soccer – Always be ‘Crootin’.
SONG OF THE DAY. “Honeysuckle Rose” by Fats Waller.
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