MarkWiley

What about the idea that if a player enters the portal in december or april, the team that picks him up will take on the academic stats of that player from the fall semester. that way if a kid knows they are leaving, they still have to maintain academic quality to get picked up by another team.

This is what backup specialists are for!

Do you have a source for that? My understanding is Akron can still participate in the Championship.

Once a kid mentally decides to enter the portal, whether that's actually in December/April or weeks or months before the window opens, there is nothing the program can do to control that kids actions anymore. If an education is not important to that player, they check out entirely, often not bothering to finish their courses. There is nothing the program can leverage against the kid to enforce his actions. Meanwhile, the kids who stay suffer collectively due to their actions. Once the portal changed, this education requirement should not be enforced. The programs who are still maintaining the requirements are rich enough to fake it. The problem isn't all on the kids currently in the program, it's the kids who check out mid semester because they know they are hitting the portal.

The wording is strange, I didn't understand he actually accepted the offer.

We currently do not have a LS on roster. There is a freshman coming in this summer as well.

Yeah you are probably more right than I am, but I'm even seeing 3 stars take the scholarship and keep getting passed over. It's sad.

HS level coaches, parents and kids need to start being honest in their own assessments. Unless you are a 4-5 star national recruit, you need to go straight to D3-NAIA-JUCO-D2-FCS to a place you can build film, then transfer. If you watch closely, you've seen countless kids who are on the traditional development path get leapfrogged by transfers when it's their turn. Coaches are incentivized to give a transfer every opportunity over a long term recruit. Too many kids are holding on to a dream of a path that doesn't exist anymore, they need to suppress their ego and take the path that is laid our for them. I'm not saying this is right, or doesn't need changing, it just is so they need to adapt.

yes. It's marketing, you'll be surprised how much programs pay attention to who is recruiting who. Get one good offer at a top school in a conference then you can expect other schools in that conference to offer as well. FOMO is real.

garrison Smith to FAU.

To be fair, Mercyhurst JUST went up to FCS for football, starting next year. Why? No idea...

I'm sure the closeness of Kent to home is a big factor as well. Being from Ohio and having kids in the MAC is awesome.

I hope they have the guts to give it one year, give the team the chance to get out of OOC with 2 or even 3 wins and get a bowl game. Then see how that chargers the program. Here's hoping.

My fear is that our OOC schedule is going to get reworked over the summer for budgetary reasons.