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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

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dragurd said:
I ran across an article where they are redshirting but not transferring. Sounds almost like Houston is tanking the season for 1 more year of their good players. It's bizarre...
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D'Eriq King's Unprecedented Decision Offers Unique Twist to Redshirt Rule

Longtime football coach Todd Berry, who was most recently at Louisiana-Monroe, has spoken with enough college administrators and coaches to know that the new redshirt rule implemented last year has been a smashing success. If you were unaware, players can now redshirt after participating in up to four games in a season, a change the coaching community seriously supported for years. Before the rule’s adoption last June, everyone understood the positive impacts of such a dramatic change, for both player and coach: It gives freshmen key experience while not removing a complete year of eligibility, and for coaches, it relieves them from a late-season dilemma as depth thins: burn a kid’s redshirt to play him for only a few plays.

More than one year under the new policy, another unintended benefit is being felt. Under the old rule, as many as 20 players knew they wouldn’t play a single snap in a particular season. “A number of coaches have come to me, ‘The morale of my team is so much higher,’ because they all have a chance to play,’” Berry says. But there’s also been an unintended consequence: high-profile players transferring after meeting their four-game limit in order to retain a year of eligibility. The latter hasn’t happened often, but it has happened (think QB Kelly Bryant at Clemson and WR Jalen McCleskey at Oklahoma State).

On Monday, we were presented with yet another… benefit (?) of the new rule. Houston announced that star quarterback D’Eriq King plans to sit out the rest of the 2019 season. He doesn’t plan to transfer. It is a bizarre situation that leaves much of the college football world wondering if there’s more to the story or assuming the Cougars are punting on 2019. UH is off to a 1-3 start in Dana Holgorsen’s debut season, most recently dropping one-score games against Washington State and Tulane. The most bizarre part of this story—King returning to Houston in 2020—is somewhat in doubt, though. Earlier Monday, his father told Fox 26 in Houston that his son planned to enter the transfer portal. “It's the best decision for him at this point,” King’s father, Eric, said. “Very, very tough [decision]. He's got a lot of teammates riding on him. Sometimes you got to be a little self-centered and do what's best for you.” This story gets weirder, too. The only quarterback on Houston’s roster to have thrown a pass thus far this year is Holgorsen’s son, Logan.

King’s situation at Houston is unique. He’s on his third head coach of his career. Tom Herman left Houston for Texas after 2016 and then the school fired Major Applewhite last year to hire Holgorsen. In an interview with Sports Illustrated in the spring, Holgorsen expressed his disappointment in only having King for one season. He was excited about working with such a talented QB but was discouraged that King, a senior, burned a year of eligibility as a freshman in 2016 rather than redshirt. This is an unusual way to get more time with a player, a peculiar byproduct of the new redshirt rule. We’ve seen it used for transfer reasons. The most notable was, of course, Bryant, the former Clemson quarterback who lost his starting job to Trevor Lawrence four games into the 2018 season and then took off the rest of the season, eventually finding a home at Missouri where he’s now calling the shots. For the same reason—playing time—McClesky left the Cowboys program four games into last season, transferred and is now a starter at Tulane.

Entire article: https://www.si.com/college-football...ule-deriq-king-houston-extra-year-eligibility
 
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ScriptOhio said:
D'Eriq King's Unprecedented Decision Offers Unique Twist to Redshirt Rule

Longtime football coach Todd Berry, who was most recently at Louisiana-Monroe, has spoken with enough college administrators and coaches to know that the new redshirt rule implemented last year has been a smashing success. If you were unaware, players can now redshirt after participating in up to four games in a season, a change the coaching community seriously supported for years. Before the rule’s adoption last June, everyone understood the positive impacts of such a dramatic change, for both player and coach: It gives freshmen key experience while not removing a complete year of eligibility, and for coaches, it relieves them from a late-season dilemma as depth thins: burn a kid’s redshirt to play him for only a few plays.

More than one year under the new policy, another unintended benefit is being felt. Under the old rule, as many as 20 players knew they wouldn’t play a single snap in a particular season. “A number of coaches have come to me, ‘The morale of my team is so much higher,’ because they all have a chance to play,’” Berry says. But there’s also been an unintended consequence: high-profile players transferring after meeting their four-game limit in order to retain a year of eligibility. The latter hasn’t happened often, but it has happened (think QB Kelly Bryant at Clemson and WR Jalen McCleskey at Oklahoma State).

On Monday, we were presented with yet another… benefit (?) of the new rule. Houston announced that star quarterback D’Eriq King plans to sit out the rest of the 2019 season. He doesn’t plan to transfer. It is a bizarre situation that leaves much of the college football world wondering if there’s more to the story or assuming the Cougars are punting on 2019. UH is off to a 1-3 start in Dana Holgorsen’s debut season, most recently dropping one-score games against Washington State and Tulane. The most bizarre part of this story—King returning to Houston in 2020—is somewhat in doubt, though. Earlier Monday, his father told Fox 26 in Houston that his son planned to enter the transfer portal. “It's the best decision for him at this point,” King’s father, Eric, said. “Very, very tough [decision]. He's got a lot of teammates riding on him. Sometimes you got to be a little self-centered and do what's best for you.” This story gets weirder, too. The only quarterback on Houston’s roster to have thrown a pass thus far this year is Holgorsen’s son, Logan.

King’s situation at Houston is unique. He’s on his third head coach of his career. Tom Herman left Houston for Texas after 2016 and then the school fired Major Applewhite last year to hire Holgorsen. In an interview with Sports Illustrated in the spring, Holgorsen expressed his disappointment in only having King for one season. He was excited about working with such a talented QB but was discouraged that King, a senior, burned a year of eligibility as a freshman in 2016 rather than redshirt. This is an unusual way to get more time with a player, a peculiar byproduct of the new redshirt rule. We’ve seen it used for transfer reasons. The most notable was, of course, Bryant, the former Clemson quarterback who lost his starting job to Trevor Lawrence four games into the 2018 season and then took off the rest of the season, eventually finding a home at Missouri where he’s now calling the shots. For the same reason—playing time—McClesky left the Cowboys program four games into last season, transferred and is now a starter at Tulane.

Entire article: https://www.si.com/college-football...ule-deriq-king-houston-extra-year-eligibility
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LordJeffBuck said:
Jimmy loses another one (by my count, the 8th from scUM's class of 2017)....

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West Virginia QB Jack Allison reportedly enters transfer portal

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Because Tua Tagovailoa is so successful at Alabama, Jack Allison is leaving West Virginia. The cause-effect isn’t that literal, but that’s the way the game of thrones works at the quarterback position in 2019.

Tua’s success at Alabama caused Jalen Hurts to leave for Oklahoma, which caused Austin Kendall to leave for West Virginia, which is now causing Allison to take West Virginia’s country roads elsewhere.



A fourth-year junior from Palmetto, Fla., Allison signed with Miami out of high school and transferred before he saw the field. Playing sparingly behind fellow transfer Will Grier in 2017 and ’18, he targeted 2019 as his time to shine, but lost the job to Kendall.

In three games this season, Allison is 19-of-26 for 144 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.

Having already used his redshirt season, Allison will need to graduate from WVU in order to classify as a graduate transfer and play elsewhere in 2020.

Entire article: https://collegefootballtalk.nbcspor...ck-allison-reportedly-enters-transfer-portal/
 
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The Florida Gators’ struggling offensive line is down one of its starters following redshirt freshman Chris Bleich’s decision to leave the program.

Following his benching during UF’s 24-17 this past Saturday against Georgia, Bleich has entered the NCAA transfer portal with three games remaining in the regular season.
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