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Could Andrew Luck play? - BostonCard - 01-21-2026

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/georgia/news/georgia-3-year-starting-qb-star-wants-return-college-football-play-bulldogs-nfl/bfd4d3be1b9c9c63b013b70b

This is about Jacob Fromm, who left Georgia with 1 year of eligibility left to have a cup of coffee in the NFL.  Given the direction of travel, I expect the next ruling will be that players who left college with eligibility remaining to play professionally should not be prevented from coming back to college. The final frontier will be to challenge the concept of eligibility…

BC

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - cardcrimson - 01-21-2026

(01-21-2026, 09:50 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/georgia/news/georgia-3-year-starting-qb-star-wants-return-college-football-play-bulldogs-nfl/bfd4d3be1b9c9c63b013b70b

This is about Jacob Fromm, who left Georgia with 1 year of eligibility left to have a cup of coffee in the NFL.  Given the direction of travel, I expect the next ruling will be that players who left college with eligibility remaining to play professionally should not be prevented from coming back to college. The final frontier will be to challenge the concept of eligibility…

BC

Funny. I had posted about the same thing a long time ago on a different forum, and was thinking about the same tonight, especially after reading the comments about our QB room. The NIL thing would be a bit tricky to negotiate, I'd imagine.

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - norcard10 - 01-21-2026

can "college" athletics be any more of a joke a this point?

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - burger - 01-22-2026

Someone who played professionally in the NBA G league is being allowed to play in the NCAA again: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/47685614/g-league-sec-doing-here

Hasn't Stanford MBB already faced 2 players who played professionally in Europe?

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - M T - 01-22-2026

In WBB, the Syracuse center previously played professionally in Japan.  For the NCAA, she's a freshman who has earned FIVE ACC rookie-of-the-week awards, most recently after defeating Stanford.

(But, hey, 20 years after I graduated from college, the Foothill water polo coach asked me if I had any eligibility left.)

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - jonnyss - 01-22-2026

behind stanford's offensive line?

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - Goose - 01-22-2026

(01-22-2026, 06:25 PM)jonnyss Wrote:  behind stanford's offensive line?
Andrew is used to a sub-par OL. Of course, Stanford's may be even worse than the Colt's OL, relatively speaking.

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - jacket3ree - 01-22-2026

He could play. Probably the best college quarterback I ever saw in person.

Oh, you mean now.

RE: Could Andrew Luck play? - Mick - 01-23-2026

(01-22-2026, 07:06 PM)Goose Wrote:  
(01-22-2026, 06:25 PM)jonnyss Wrote:  behind stanford's offensive line?
Andrew is used to a sub-par OL. Of course, Stanford's may be even worse than the Colt's OL, relatively speaking.

Was just thinking about the sub-par 49er OL. Bill Walsh, fresh from coaching Stanford first time around drafted five OLs in the first four rounds (Harris Barton, Bubba Paris, Bruce Collie, Guy McIntyre and Steve Wallace), got lucky in the 11th round with Jesse Sapolu, and had two starters, one a 4x All Pro or Pro Bowler (Randy Cross) and another who started 138 games (John Ayers). They were at least part of the reason that Montana and Young are Hall of Famers. After Barton in 1987, they didn't draft an OL in the first three rounds until Jeremy Newberry from Cal at center in 1998, then five more years until Kwame Harris/Stanford in the first round in 2003.