Caullin Lacy
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This is what all the bleeding heart football fans in America wanted. Funny, never seen a coach opt out midway through a season? Inmates running the asylum or should I say RUINING?
Who knows he still maybe hurt. I am not worried about him. He is one guy and it isn’t like he has been killing it. This is going to be more and more common once teams get eliminated and they are pro prospect. More opt outs will occur.
What's the point anymore? That's it for me. Unless things change, no reason to get excited anymore about collegiate sports.
Probably don't win the Virginia game without him. Huge catch in ND game. He's been pretty solid..
Yeah right. No way he comes back. He may actually believe staying a Cardinal is possible, but as soon as a top SEC team comes calling, he will be outta here.Per Lacy’s agent:
In this day and age, if a door is opened, most players will step right in regardless of what they have said before.
No putting this genie back in the bottle now; we as college fans are in for a lot of disappointment going forward.
Treat this like a season ending injury, which may be what it is. Next man up. All you can do. Still have a lot to play for or at least that's how coaches and players should feel.
Well, it is what it is. I myself believe that Jamari, Bell, and Bruce should have been the focus all along. Lacy missed those games in the beginning of the season and Jamari was balling out. When Lacy came back I felt like he took plays away from Bell and Jamari. Like a poster before me stated this is what happens when you dance with the devil, who in this case is the transfer portal. We need to focus more on redeveloping those High School pipelines, because we can’t keep going the John Calipari route of relying on transfers year end and year out.
I am in football purgatory right now. My Cowboys are a dumpster fire this year and Louisville is certainly not where I thought we would be going into November. All my hopes are riding on us having a successful Basketball season. And if it took for me to have to endure a horrible season of football for Louisville Basketball to rise again then so be it.
And?
They get good…and are gone.
There is no way to have any kind of continuity IMO.
It’s going to be a crapshoot every year unless some way shape or form they limit the transfer portal.
The “upsets” already this year tell you times have changed.
You are proving my point to a tee. How many times did we see a team full of upper class men take down a top five Calipari team? We can not rely on a team full of six month rentals that just want to come here for NIL money and bounce as soon as a little adversity hits.
It is challenging to build a roster. Why would you spend x dollars on freshman where many of them either won’t see the field or leave? The only way you dedicate $$ to freshman is the staff believes they can play i.e. Brown and Watson. It is rare for a freshman to break into a starting line up. That means at schools like Louisville the high school players are going to be projects. No one will be poking around for them. Maybe you find some really solid players.
That forces coaches into relying on the portal. Then you have to deal with agents and even though the kid maybe a great culture guy the agent is going to continue to get him into a more advantageous position. That is what is happening with Lacey. His agent is trying to maximize his value. He is using the system against Louisville who has zero control of these decisions. They paid him fair market and were playing him, but maybe he wasn’t getting enough targets so they shut it down. Ugly side of the current portal process.
It will get worked out over time but no one is a fan of a player quitting mid season. That is what this appears to be because not many thinks he is staying at Louisville.
That forces coaches into relying on the portal. Then you have to deal with agents and even though the kid maybe a great culture guy the agent is going to continue to get him into a more advantageous position. That is what is happening with Lacey. His agent is trying to maximize his value. He is using the system against Louisville who has zero control of these decisions. They paid him fair market and were playing him, but maybe he wasn’t getting enough targets so they shut it down. Ugly side of the current portal process.
It will get worked out over time but no one is a fan of a player quitting mid season. That is what this appears to be because not many thinks he is staying at Louisville.
The NCAA has had their head in the sand for too long so now there are no guardrails around much of anything. Personally I will not donate a dime to NIL until the schools/NCAA/whomever start making things contractually based. Frankly the whole system is insane.
The 4 game red-shirt rule needs to end IMO. At least go down to 2 games because most schools now only play 2 weaker non-conference opponents or will once the 9 game conference schedule comes into play.
It was awesome when the portal wasn't open because it gave freshman a chance to play. In the portal era, all it's doing is giving guys a chance to game the system. Because they're paid now, I don't have as much sympathy. He's played 5 years and he got paid big this year. Don't fault him for trying a 6th for more money, but he got paid and got a free education. What it also does is take away a spot from a younger player too.
Schools will be paying in the future and NIL will be a supplement. This is going down the path of salary caps/collective bargaining. Now will get be structured like the NFL or MLB? If it is like the NFL I like it. If it is structured like MLB then SEC and Big Ten will dominate.
There are talks of increasing roster sizes which is nuts. I heard 110 players on a roster. That is insane.
There are talks of increasing roster sizes which is nuts. I heard 110 players on a roster. That is insane.
It's just different and fluid. We seemed to be surprised when Huggins-Bruce returned. There's just extra layers on all this right now.
Not just college football, but college basketball as well. Probably got a lot to do with Nick Saban, Jay Wright and Tony Bennett no longer wanting to coach.
Exactly why stadiums across America have seen an attendance drop. Lotta people gave it up.
Fans are just watching on TV. Less of a financial commitment. It's possible this thing does fall apart. I don't envision any major retreat in this though. As long as that TV $ is flowing it's status quo. We can't count on the schools or NCAA to figure it out, they punted it for decades counting their stacks. Maybe politicians reach in, but not sure SCOTUS would allow that.
Maybe they reduce the RS from 4 games to 2 games, try to cover some loopholes you see getting abused in the portal and NIL but that seems slippery.
@ the end of the day, when there's this much $ involved in something, it's inevitable the general population is going to take it on the chin. Or the workers. It looks like the workers won their day in court though. So yeah, sorry fans.
Maybe they reduce the RS from 4 games to 2 games, try to cover some loopholes you see getting abused in the portal and NIL but that seems slippery.
@ the end of the day, when there's this much $ involved in something, it's inevitable the general population is going to take it on the chin. Or the workers. It looks like the workers won their day in court though. So yeah, sorry fans.
I appreciate those who believe in the traditional process of using HS recruiting to build a solid football program, and I truly wish that was an option for Jeff and UL. However that ship has sailed, there is absolutely no way to protect those underclassmen from transferring out before Jeff and his staff can develop into a solid roster. Look at Alabama, OSU and UGA as examples of attracting the very best skill position players from HS, only to lose their backup QBs to the portal.
This combination of NIL and the Transfer Portal has changed college football (as well as amateur sports) beyond a point of return. I am sure that schools like IU, South Carolina, Pitt and SMU see this as the “quick fix” that it represents short term, but most schools are going to experience much of the same disappointing expectations that we are witnessing right now.
This combination of NIL and the Transfer Portal has changed college football (as well as amateur sports) beyond a point of return. I am sure that schools like IU, South Carolina, Pitt and SMU see this as the “quick fix” that it represents short term, but most schools are going to experience much of the same disappointing expectations that we are witnessing right now.
In some ways a coach in its 1st year is the best opportunity to succeed. The coach can bring over key players. A lot of IU best players are from JMU. Buy in is quick.
I do agree the variance from year to year could be extremely volatile.
I’m not jumping on the Indiana bandwagon until they beat somebody better than Nebraska. Do they even play Ohio ST , Oregon or Penn State?
the cray thing is technically he is available to play in all post season games so if by chance we made it to acc title game, bowl game or 12 team playoff, all redshirt players can still play in the post season. those games don't count officially so red-shirt players can still play in bowl games and playoff games.
IU’s schedule similar to Louisville last year is big deal. This is going to happen a lot in the future. Teams are going to catch really good schedules. They only play Ohio St. They catch a down Michigan team at home. They have a legit shot at the playoff.
Louisville really caught a tough schedule and spots. They get Miami and Clemson off buys. 4 of their last 5 games are on the road. The SMU game was the one that put them in a really tough spot. Really close to a special year.
I had to work last night, so I am watching the replay this morning. I told everyone that JamariBrooks was and is that Dude. I will not lose any sleep over Lacy as along as we still have Brooks, Bruce, Bell and Redmen.
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