Transfer Portal (Furman and Others of Note)

[Roundball]

[tim]

What is the final date for portal entry? I need for this to be over with.

[FUBeAR]

Y'all need to get hip... (which is prolly not a very hip way to say that)...

FBS Football IS PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL.

The Players and Coaches are ALL mercenaries. Yep - even YOUR favorite Player on YOUR Favorite Team....him too. There is no loyalty to Team or School. Loyalty is only to the lucre. Their actions mean more than their X's about brotherhood and loyalty. They don't know the meaning of either of those words.

FCS Players and Coaches moving on to be FBS Players and Coaches are also ALL mercenaries.

If you find any of that distasteful, you should not give FBS one bit of your headspace or 1 blink of your eyeballs. FUBeAR doesn't.


FCS is on the precipice of being the same as FBS. If it does become the same, FUBeAR will remove FCS Football from his headspace and eyeballs too.

FUBeAR don't care if every Coach and Player in FBS is livin' in hilltop houses and drivin' 15 cars. More power to 'em. Get it!!!

FUBeAR got no interest in watching 'em Coach and Play Football for the lucre and don't care if they win or lose or catch the ball or drop it...though. He has never been a fan of Pro Football for a reason.

This is where we are. It sux for those of us who have enjoyed AMATEUR Intercollegiate Athletics for so many years....but it is what it is. FUBeAR and you ain't changin' it.

CAUSTIC - ANGRY - CYNICAL ———but friggin right. FCS may well be the hill to die on in defense of amateur sport. A scholarship to a decent academic school that will prepare someone for life is enough reward for someone doing something they love. The rest is all greedy BS. Leave all that to the big stadium/tv contract professional college teams and just stop it at the FCS level. A player wants to stick his ass in a portal than just let him kiss it goodbye when he does. No dippin your little toe in to see if anyone wants you. You go in the portal, you go out the friggin door at this institution. Tell the NCAA to shove their portal and don’t participate. Still allow kids to transfer for their own reasons - don’t make it a sanctioned and structured thing. What the hell are we doing in the same fraternity as Oklahoma State anyway? Tilt at some damned windmills FU Bear and see if those suckers don’t fall. You know your way around that hood. We don’t need no stinkin portal. Continue to upgrade the brand value and the right kind of kids will come. A lot already have.

Not quite - FUBeAR ain’t mad at any of ‘em that wants to live in hilltop houses and drive 15 cars. That’s all well & good.

It’s just that FUBeAR no longer has any interest in watching 'em play Football. Love 'em for being FU Football Alums and what they did for good ol' FU. BUT...FUBeAR likes amateur college Football. They've moved on to the "Pro's" - might check their stats on occasion or catch a couple of plays...happy for 'em ... just not that interested.

Ain’t nobody have to be like FUBeAR. Just don’t pretend, if you are an FBS fan, that you are a College Football Fan for the ol’ boola boola and your love for Whatsamatta U. You are cheering for mercenaries wearing rented clothes in colors you like.

[Roundball]

What is the final date for portal entry? I need for this to be over with.

Tuesday, January 2. Merry Christmas.

[apaladin]

So much for FU bring able to keep players. Looks like it is going to be a mass exodus.

[Sad Din]

Remember the ole mortgage balloon payment? Low monthly payments but the principal will come due at some point?

Thats was happening with the Dins. 5 6 7 year players. More power to them.. they stuck around now its time to go

Hopefully that given time to build the bench. Not worried at all. There's a plan

[FUwolfpacker]

All of these guys are graduate transfers. Furman did “keep” them and they gave four or more years to the University, which is all we can reasonably expect. The Covid year has made things funky as far as expectations go. Also, this is not uncommon in teams where you see a lot of players come back for one more year and then do what they came back to accomplish. I mean, we had 41 seniors walk on senior day. This was always coming. Last year spoiled us.

[FUwolfpacker]

Remember the ole mortgage balloon payment? Low monthly payments but the principal will come due at some point?

Thats was happening with the Dins. 5 6 7 year players. More power to them.. they stuck around now its time to go

Hopefully that given time to build the bench. Not worried at all. There's a plan

Exactly this. Well put.

[Roundball]

I look at it this way. In the past, many of our players would have already graduated and moved on. I am grateful for the extra year, or two, of watching these great young men give it all to Furman University. Go Paladins!

[FUwolfpacker]

Not sure if people care, but Robinson picked up more offers from Akron, Colorado St, and Charlotte.

[tim]

I think Colorado State is where Dominic Morris ended up last year.

[FU3]

Going to need a punter.
https://x.com/rjleavy11/status/m1734370 ... eaZ3jSJbwg

[FUBeAR]

Going to need a punter.

Ian Williams appears to have 2 years of eligibility remaining and is not currently in the portal. He lists himself on X as a Kicker-Punter and he did punt 1x this year (seems it was @ WCU if FUBeAR recalls correctly) for 13 yards, so nowhere to go but up with that career average.

We good.

[gman84]

The portal does work both ways. I think with maybe one exception, every portal transfer we have brought in has significantly helped our team over the past 2 seasons. Just have to wait and see how things play out.

[Jasper]

I have no problem with the kids who have or are about to earn their degrees moving on in order to get an advanced degree in their chosen area of study. Some of the pending transfers have played 4 years at Furman. I wish them all the best in their lives.