2025-2026 College Football Thread

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

If he would stay at Clemson, he certainly has all the tools to make it at the next level and could potentially earn a lot more than $2 million in his first NFL contract. Obviously this is his choice, but if I were him I'd keep playing football. (As football is my number one sport) But if likes playing baseball more, then more power to him and I wish him lots of success.

Or he'll be like fates boy up in Chicago (Samardzija if someone didn't know) lol

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by supersix4

Or he'll be like fates boy up in Chicago (Samardzija if someone didn't know) lol

Samardzija was smart to go pro in baseball. The Cubs offered him $10 million guaranteed, which was more than he was going to get in the NFL. White receivers definitely face an uphill battle and he would have had a lot more injury risk. I could see him trying to play football soon though. He hasn't been good when he's gotten called up to the bigs and him and the Cubs could agree to end the contract after the season.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Samardzija was smart to go pro in baseball. The Cubs offered him $10 million guaranteed, which was more than he was going to get in the NFL. White receivers definitely face an uphill battle and he would have had a lot more injury risk. I could see him trying to play football soon though. He hasn't been good when he's gotten called up to the bigs and him and the Cubs could agree to end the contract after the season.

I thought when he was coming out they said he'd be a top 10 pick? which wouldn't that still make him about 10 million?

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Originally Posted by supersix4

I thought when he was coming out they said he'd be a top 10 pick? which wouldn't that still make him about 10 million?

When was the last time a white receiver was a top 10 pick? He was projected to go late first round, but would have risked injury if he played another year in college plus his contract would probably have been around 4 years/$10 million with $5 million guaranteed.

[supersix4]

We need our CFB name changed to 2010-11

But some new news

Pat Haden to replace Mike Garrett at USC as AD.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...southern-cal/1

[fatediesel]

I don't know how Garrett didn't get fired last year when the OJ Mayo scandal broke (in addition to the ongoing Bush investigation), but there was no way he was keeping his job after the NCAA sanctions. He was a textbook example of "lack of institutional control." As long as the football and basketball teams were winning he'd look the other way. Everyone knew that Mayo's recruitment had a lot of question marks but he didn't care. With a new school president starting this month he had to know his days were numbered.

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lol now they are going after the Pouncey brothers for stuff they were wearing during the draft

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...s-at-florida/1

CFB:Live just said he turned over all kinds of records to them showing that he never received money.

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In a bit of a surprise, Kyle Parker will return as Clemson's starting quarterback this season. Parker was drafted by the Rockies with their first round pick and was expected to sign a deal with them and give up his football career. Parker has until August 15 to sign with the Rockies or else he will re-enter the baseball draft next season, but he has ruled out a baseball only contract.

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports...rback-clemson/

[Slec]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

In a bit of a surprise, Kyle Parker will return as Clemson's starting quarterback this season. Parker was drafted by the Rockies with their first round pick and was expected to sign a deal with them and give up his football career. Parker has until August 15 to sign with the Rockies or else he will re-enter the baseball draft next season, but he has ruled out a baseball only contract.

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports...rback-clemson/

yea, CJ Spiller posted something on twitter about it after getting a phone call from Parker around midnight. It's good for the program to know who the QB will be.. returning freshman all-american, or raw talent but hasn't taken a snap in 2 years Taj Boyd.

Class move in my opinion. and the Rockies can now sign him for less money. Win-win!

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Georgia is the latest school the NCAA is looking into for possible rules violations. They are the 4th SEC team the NCAA is currently investigating, along with Florida, South Carolina, and Alabama, as well as North Carolina. Apparently the Georgia investigation is whether receiver A.J. Green attended an agent's Memorial Day party, and if so whether he received improper benefits. This is the same party that South Carolina, North Carolina, and Alabama may have had players at. Green denies going to the party and said he spent Memorial Day at his home in South Carolina.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...ion/index.html

[Chordata]

Getting out of hand. NCAA needs to do something about this. Kids should know better, certainly, but so should the agents. Agents need to be penalized somehow.

Hopefully Green didn't go to that party (though I really don't care if he did). But if he did go, then lied about not going to the coaches, he's going to be in deep shit and rightfully so.

[Slec]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Getting out of hand. NCAA needs to do something about this. Kids should know better, certainly, but so should the agents. Agents need to be penalized somehow.

Hopefully Green didn't go to that party (though I really don't care if he did). But if he did go, then lied about not going to the coaches, he's going to be in deep shit and rightfully so.

I think that's the point of the investigation (to do something). They get proof, they can suspend these players for a full year. That's a hell of a deterrent, but big names need to be caught for it to work. Usually these things are caught after a player goes pro, but with social media, these kids are ****ing themselves.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Slec

I think that's the point of the investigation (to do something). They get proof, they can suspend these players for a full year. That's a hell of a deterrent, but big names need to be caught for it to work. Usually these things are caught after a player goes pro, but with social media, these kids are ****ing themselves.

Sorry, I meant that something needs to be done to the agents so that they will be deterred from taking advantage of the kids.

Yes, the kids need to know better. But so do the agents.

[Slec]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Sorry, I meant that something needs to be done to the agents so that they will be deterred from taking advantage of the kids.

Yes, the kids need to know better. But so do the agents.

guess neither of us were clear The kids aren't innocent in this. They know what they are doing will get them in trouble if caught. They just think they won't be caught. Something ABSOLUTELY needs to be done about the agents, but something needs to be done about the kids as well.

[Chordata]

Originally Posted by Slec

guess neither of us were clear The kids aren't innocent in this. They know what they are doing will get them in trouble if caught. They just think they won't be caught. Something ABSOLUTELY needs to be done about the agents, but something needs to be done about the kids as well.

No problems there, but there are already mechanisms in place to punish the kids and the schools. There are none in place to punish the agent. Seems inequitable to me.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Slec

guess neither of us were clear The kids aren't innocent in this. They know what they are doing will get them in trouble if caught. They just think they won't be caught. Something ABSOLUTELY needs to be done about the agents, but something needs to be done about the kids as well.

I agree but if you are being harassed by people trying to give you stuff and you haven't ever gotten anything like whats being offered in you're life I can very much understand how hard it is for people to say no. And maybe if they had zero access or a huge deterrent from talking to them maybe it doesn't happen

[Slec]

Originally Posted by supersix4

I agree but if you are being harassed by people trying to give you stuff and you haven't ever gotten anything like whats being offered in you're life I can very much understand how hard it is for people to say no. And maybe if they had zero access or a huge deterrent from talking to them maybe it doesn't happen

if you're on scholarship to a school and it requires maintaining a certain GPA (much higher then what athlete's are required, I might add), it's on you to make sure that happens. Parties, drinking, the opposite sex, extra- curricular activities, and you have no one to oversee you... it's on you. The players know they can't take things from these guys yet they choose to. If it's free or something not available to the general public you can't take it.

Didn't 3 or 4 football players a few yrs back have jobs at a car dealership that paid them $1000/wk and required nothing of them.

Zero access is the only thing that coaches can control so Saban went there, and good for him. It sounds like the NFLPA is taking this whole thing seriously, so we'll have to see what shakes out. College is an unpaid feeder for the pro's and EVERYONE has a vested interest in not letting agents screw it up.

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Originally Posted by O_V_N

Sorry, I meant that something needs to be done to the agents so that they will be deterred from taking advantage of the kids.

Yes, the kids need to know better. But so do the agents.

It's the NFL and NFLPA that need to do something about agents contacting college players because the NCAA is powerless to punish the agents, and in large part the players, because all they can do is suspend them, and in the end it's the school that is punished (USC). The NFL and NFLPA should work together and make stiff penalties for agents that are using runners to get players by any means necessary. Make some serious penalties like an automatic lifetime ban and this stuff will largely stop, although there will still be boosters giving gifts to the players.

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Originally Posted by Slec

Didn't 3 or 4 football players a few yrs back have jobs at a car dealership that paid them $1000/wk and required nothing of them.

That was at Oklahoma with QB Rhett Bomar and guard DJ Quinn, both of whom were kicked off the team. Romar was one of the top quarterback prospects in the country but had trouble finding a school that would take him (I know for a fact Northern Iowa turned him down, as did some other top-tier FCS programs) and he ended up at Sam Houston State and was a 5th round pick of the Giants in 2009. He was on the practice squad last year and is battling for a roster spot this year.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Slec

if you're on scholarship to a school and it requires maintaining a certain GPA (much higher then what athlete's are required, I might add), it's on you to make sure that happens. Parties, drinking, the opposite sex, extra- curricular activities, and you have no one to oversee you... it's on you. The players know they can't take things from these guys yet they choose to. If it's free or something not available to the general public you can't take it.

I wouldn't know about that since my parents write a check to UMD each year lol.

But as with most things there are always exceptions, no matter how great you are as a student lets say you're in law school some firm isn't going to chase you around throwing money at you and hiring women to hook up with you, throwing parties to get you to come, or giving the folks a place to live and a car to drive.

Not everyone has the same willpower and I know at least for me no matter how much I was given scholarship wise if some hottie was coming to me every day calling me trying to hook up guess what it'll eventually happen.

There will always be choices and decisions on right and wrong in college, but something like agents hounding players shouldn't even be in the equation, at least from my perspective.