09-06-2022, 06:33 AM
(09-06-2022, 04:01 AM)BostonCard Wrote: https://www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb...022-season
Yikes! Almost half of Starting QB’s (including a majority of PAC-12 QB’s) are transfers. That’s not really the way this is supposed to work.
I believe in giving student athletes agency to do what they feel is in their best interests. Nonetheless, looking at this outcome, I am left thinking that academics have very little to do with these calculations, and that some recalibration is needed. I am hopeful that once the extra COVID year is out of everyone’s system (that is, in two years when the then freshmen are fifth years), things might revert a bit. But I worry that we are at a new normal, one where the opportunity to start trumps any and all academic considerations.
BC
The head football coach at Clemson had a very good solution to the transfer issue(s):
1. Transfers have to sit out for a year, the exception being grad transfers.
2. If the transfer graduates in 4 years, then they retain the year of eligibility that lost while having to sit out.