This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

Pervis_Griffith said:

Pryor doesn't need a medical redshirt.

He qualifies for another year thanks to Vandy's QB Diego Pavia. Any student athlete, in any sport, who played at least one season outside the NCAA (mainly JUCO's, but I guess NAIA athletes too) have been granted a waiver for the 2025-26 season.

Linked below, and copied the text from the article, but this not only would effect Kasean Pryor, bur J'Vonne Hadley could qualify too. And probably a handful of student athletes in football, baseball, and other sports at U of L.

MSN

NCAA makes major eligibility rule change for 2025-2026 season following Diego Pavia ruling, files appeal​

A waiver by the NCAA Division I Board of Directors has been granted on Monday, allowing a set of players to remain eligible for the 2025-2026 season. They must have competed at a non-NCAA school throughout their career while also previously being out of eligibility. Now, the NCAA says they can return for one more year.

Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia is the most high-profile example of this waiver, previously being deemed eligible for another year of college football. But now, it applies to athletes across every NCAA sport.

“NEWS: The NCAA Division I Board of Directors has granted a waiver to permit athletes who attended and competed at a non-NCAA school for 1 or more years to remain eligible and compete in 2025-26 if those athletes would have otherwise used their final season of competition during the 2024-25 academic year, and meet all other eligibility requirements (e.g., progress toward degree, five-year period of eligibility),” Darren Heitner said via X.

At the same time, the NCAA has filed a notice of appeal regarding the case involving Pavia. Waivers will be handed out for this specific year but the NCAA appealing the ruling could prevent this from becoming an annual occurrence in college athletics.

“The NCAA has also filed a notice of appeal of the court’s ruling in the Diego Pavia case,” Heitner said.

Click to expand...

i think he can get both though, a medical redshirt and another year to play due to ruling. i believe they wouldn't conjoin them so he'd get another year for the redshirt and then another year for the juco and wouldn;t matter which when they were taken. hopefully so. plus NCAA still fighting case but should take a few years to resolve. haven;t there been some 7, 8 or 9 year players due to covid and redshirts and coaches leaving.

Gotta admit these look pretty good.

Especially all the starting experience on the OL.

The D portal is very light so far. 🤞

When has the ACC done anything that would help us, or make us look good or even better?

Kiffin had his whole team stay and play last night.

He made me sick when he told the reporter (paraphrasing) “we made a statement to the committee by showing them what we could do to a 9-3 ACC team”. 🙄

Of course the reporter didn’t say “against their 2nd and 3 string” 🤷🏻‍♂️

And to be honest, I’m glad we didn’t have to play them with our bowl team.

On second thought, maybe the ACC actually did do us a favor.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

UofL would have represented vs Ole Miss much better than Duke. That is the game that I wanted the ACC to put the Cards in. Big miss on their part. Would have been a much better match up and a 'Battle of the #1&2 Portal' winners of the year 2024. The media would have thrived on that angle.

Well it goes in the record books as another terrible season for the ACC in the CFP and CFBowl games. The ACC really needs to buck up and not keep -ucking up.🤣

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

CardFanBudMan said:

If Brady starts at QB we have a serious problem.

Click to expand...

In what limited sample sizes I saw with Allen in the public practices back in the Spring and Fall camp it would kind to say he was even third string. Even in pass skellies he doesn't deliver the football with much authority relative to what even Plummer did when he was here.

Given what returns offensively I wonder if Brohm tries to push the tempo more next season; there was a point from the BC game forward where they quickened the tempo a little and it paid dividends. Hopefully we're boosted by the return of a Mills and/or Brown and I really couldn't lay odds on that. We'll miss Gonzalez who has been a stalwart, but it's always good to have a veteran center and Sylvester became a very good pass blocker at OT. If you get Mills AND Brown back you're on house money on the line. Of course...you also want to keep Richard Owens intact. Ditto Chris Barclay who was an RB coach in high demand last offseason.

You made a good point about depth at QB. The experience of Bailey in the Sun Bowl has to boost everyone's confidence and you have Deuce Adams with a year's experience in the system. There is no question the offense was stripped down practically excluding QB designed runs outside of the big run resulting in a fumble in South Bend. Moss is no more or less mobile than Shough, but he doesn't have his injury history. He throws a great ball though. And hopefully to more receivers. Having Lacey back is a huge boost because he shows an element after the catch that we lacked a little when he opted out.

Defensively we are going to have to build around the linebackers. Watts and Clark are as good a playmaking tandem as we've had there in a long time. They were fantastic up in South Bend, and sort of non-existent against Miami but that is as much a byproduct of what Miami did with that zone read/RPO scheme. I swear I thought TJ Quinn participated on Senior Day as a graduate and remain curious if he might go into the Portal as a Grad Transfer. Getting Luben is a big deal; I wonder still about Adonijah Green who was in the bowl whether he is transferring or not. We need Live bodies at DE because without Gillotte we were a pulse late from putting Williams down and still got 6 sacks (same against Stanford). At season's end we were getting sacks and generating INTs that we didn't get at all the first 8 games. The last half of Satt's last season we were among the statistically most disruptive defenses in college football and became that down the stretch this year as well--last season that disruption halted against UK and we lost the last three.

There will be significant personnel additions between now and August and if you want to know why I'll sum it up very simply--what we had banked when Tyler Baron, Wesley Walker and Peny Boone were sent packing post-Spring Practice and Lole' went to OU then Texas afterwards as well. A number of the December portal additions re-entered the Portal post-Spring which has been clearly demonstrated in Brohm's tenure to be a virtual Tryout Camp. His first Spring Practice they practically gutted the offensive line and receiving corps in what was a surprise to many. Guys like Rene Konga and Tramel Logan were added post-Spring. In the aggregate what left in NIL money far exceeded what was brought in--Barron was rumored to have over a half million in NIL and Boone clearly wasn't worth what he was initially rumored to be getting when you consider how Isaac Brown and Duke Watkins materialized. Walker ended up being a big part of Michigan's secondary getting a big pick against Alabama. I'm not advocating that we should have kept Baron and Walker in particular or even Lole' for that matter; I'm saying that what they were replaced by remained productive, and it was cheaper. Sort of a Moneyball approach to defensive personnel, with a replacement of production with volume in the aggregate at a lesser price.

When it comes to the secondary they are going to have to REALLY attack the portal and pump some NIL into it. We have had really good corners manned by transfers going back through Kei'trel Clark coming from Liberty as well as Quincey Riley, Jarvis Brownlee and now Thornton so there is reason to be confident it will happen...but you have to have a lump in your throat when you realize that each of those four very good corners had critical stretches where they were out with injuries. Obviously safety remains a huge need with only Hutchinson returning who has been exploited a little in deep coverage but is a pretty physical tackler.

Placekicking will be interesting since we lose Travelsted.

This is premium content. Please subscribe to view.

Knucklehank1 said:

So far the tv ratings for the bowl games have been really good. That was May eventually change but people are still watching the bowls.

Click to expand...

Much as I hate to admit it, I’ve watched several. My wife has had the Flu so we’ve been house bound for a while.

Tonight’s Duke v Ole Miss got serious about “this portal” (their words) with graphics and “ideas”, as Lame Kiffin makes a “statement” for their PO worthiness by pummeling Dukes 2nd and 3rd string.

They discussed not open the portal until mid January “so these games will mean something”. Or letting transfers play immediately for the new team.

It won’t stop opt out draft picks, but it will stop journeyman

Anyway, TV is getting in the middle now so look for changes.

PS
I do not like Kiffin or Ol Miss, but I did like the fact his sure fire draft picks players stayed and played.

CardFanBudMan said:

If Brady starts at QB we have a serious problem.

Click to expand...

I don't know about that. I know Tom Brady is old but I think he still can play