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(01-07-2022 08:11 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(01-07-2022 07:14 AM)doss2 Wrote:  

(01-07-2022 02:55 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(01-06-2022 07:16 PM)doss2 Wrote:  

(01-06-2022 12:17 PM)Former Lurker Wrote:  Sets a bad precedent to bring back a player who left the program when he was desperately needed as a backup QB (because you are only as good as your backup QB), and place him ahead of the player who stuck it out.

UC worked with EMU to place him at EMU.

If this practice becomes widespread, it would raise all sorts of new issues for the NCAA to deal with.

Would each P5 team end up with a G5 farm team?

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad new world.

I do not see the NCAA concern. Bryant has free will. He can return or not as he chooses.

I would also add, Bryant was able to do this because of the free Covid Transfer on top of the new standard 1-free transfer...that won't be the case after 3 years, so it isn't really going to be an issue.

I don't mean there's a violation of NCAA rules. I mean that the lower-level schools aren't going to like being farm systems.

There's a LOT more lower-level schools in D-1 than elite schools. (remember there's 350 D-1 members)

They'll put up with NIL money (because they never stood a shot at top prospects anyway). But I don't think they'll put up with free agency if it results in them losing all their top players to the big schools after putting in the time & effort to develop them.