Thursday morning buffet

Get you some.

• It’s a little nauseating to see pundits hoping for three SEC teams in the CFP in hopes of blowing up the four-team playoff.
• After two weeks, PFF rankes Jake Fromm as its number three quarterback in college football.  And, no, neither Tua nor Trevor are ranked higher.
• Andy Schwarz games out what the NCAA might come up with to allow student-athletes to exercise their NLI rights.
• “Jeremy Pruitt’s former boss” breaks down Jim Chaney’s work.
• Hammer, meet nail:  you can probably guess what part of Zamir White’s early showing impressed Kirby Smart the most.
• Yeti, you bastards.  You’re killing me with this stuff.
• Kirby’s not in favor of giving freshmen a one-time free transfer waiver.

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No effing rhyme or reason

#VaTech’s Brock Hoffman was denied NCAA appeal for immediate eligibility. The Coastal Carolina transfer is not eligible to play for VT til 2020. He continues to play a key role in caring for his mom, Stephanie who was diagnosed w/ a significant non-cancerous brain tumor in 2017

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) August 27, 2019

Just days before the opener, @Vol_Football gets a much-needed boost in the defensive line with the news that Aubrey Solomon will be eligible to play this season. https://t.co/GyIJYltvHe

— Chris Low (@ClowESPN) August 28, 2019

It seems like the best way to guarantee the NCAA won’t grant a transfer waiver request is to have an ill relative.

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UPDATE:  Oh, man.

The NCAA surprised Brian Hoffman again when they came back with another line of questioning — why didn’t Stephanie Hoffman, 50, retire (after her diagnosis and surgery) from her job as a teacher?

“We have almost a million dollars of medical bills,” Brian Hoffman said. “She’s a teacher and doesn’t have enough years to get full pay from her pension. We simply couldn’t afford it.”

These people.

“It is situational ethics at an epic level.”

This is perhaps the best thing I’ve seen written about the transfer portal.  It absolutely nails the train wreck bound to occur from the combination of a poorly written, unevenly enforced NCAA rule with the, um… fluid approach coaches have taken looking for loopholes when it suits them.  Which is half the time, of course.

Finish reading it, and it’s hard to come away not thinking a one-time transfer-without-penalty rule is an inevitability.

A simple question

Dear NCAA,

Is it possible for someone to obtain two transfer waivers in the same year?  Asking for a friend.

Sincerely,

SB

Thursday morning buffet

A veritable smorgasbord for you…

• Here’s the entire 2020 schedule for the SEC.  Don’t laugh at this, but the biggest roadblock to Georgia’s winning the division next season may be Florida’s schedule, which is a little on the light side.
• Turning to this season, Tennessee just lost its most experienced defensive lineman, who suffered a torn ACL.
• The Vols also had a returning offensive lineman up and walk out the door.  Not a good day in Knoxville.
• Once Florida’s 2019 star signee, Chris Steele got his transfer waiver to play for USC this season.
• The NCAA can’t bring itself to accommodate gamblers, declines to implement standardized injury reports.
• SI’s preseason Top 25 has the usual suspects occupying the top four slots.
• The Zooker is back, baybee!
• A presidential candidate advocates paying college players.
• According to Mark Bradley, Geoff Collins has a tough act to follow.  Talk about a way to make me instantly sympathize with Collins…

But that’s not what Saban said.

Damn it, did you have to screw up a good narrative?

In 2018, the first year of the Transfer Portal and first year the NCAA didn't have a rule letting all schools block transfers, the % of FBS-to-FBS transfers (orange line here) didn't move. Again.

Stop fear-mongering about what happens if you loosen transfer rules. It's fine pic.twitter.com/6KsiejtjeJ

— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) July 31, 2019

Proving once again it’s not the numbers that bother coaches.  It’s the loss of control.

Why it’s hard to take coaches seriously on the transfer portal

Shot.

Washington HC Chris Petersen says he’s old-school, believes the transfer portal is harmful to the athletes because it “allows them to tap out” when they face a hard situation and just go somewhere else they think things will be better, when oftentimes that’s not the case.

— DevilsDigest.com (@DevilsDigest) July 24, 2019

Chaser.

A fair follow-up question to Chris Petersen would be whether he thinks Jacob Eason tapped out when things got tough at Georgia. https://t.co/JlrR1DZRJF

— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) July 24, 2019

Of course, Eason had to sit out a year.  Maybe that’s what Petersen means by “old-school”.