OT: How does Alabama have room for one more?
Despite rampant over signing over the past few years, apparently Alabama has a scholarship available to accept a transfer from former OSU receiver Duron Carter.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6283726
I wonder whose scholarship he is going to be taking...
Maybe if they would comply with FOIA requests we could see how many people they have on scholarship.
Perhaps it might be be easier to find out who is NOT on scholarship?
The fact that Alabama is oversigning is nothing new, yada yada yada. I was more surprised I guess by the fact that he didn't transfer back to tOSU. In the article ESPN even have a quote from Chris Carter saying how this was the best move for his son after failing to meet academic requirements initially at OSU. You figure a former tOSU player would endorce his son to return to his school after fulfilling the necessary academic requirements that would allow him back to the school. I wonder if this give any indication about how Chris Carter feels about the dilemma brewing in Columbus. Maybe he knows something that others don't.
Does this mean Bama is even easier than o$u
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Leave the dollar signs replacing the letter S at Mlive, kthanks
thanks for taking it upon yourself to complain about someone who has been on the board longer than you
over a 2 yr period really?
seniority doesn't mean they are right.
Stupid, juvenile nicknames
Most relevant to Michigan fans is the infamous "scUM," but this idiocy affects many fan bases. Any "State" school is liable to find a dollar sign replacing the S in their abbreviation. In a rush to damn the NCAA people will completely disregard the fact that "NCAA" doesn't have any S's in it and go ahead and make the same swap anyway. Penn State gets called "State Penn" whenever a player gets drunk and frisky. Morons spell out "University of Spoiled Children" over and over again to display their disdain for USC.
EXAMPLE
"scUM and the University of Spoiled Children are playing in the Ro$e Bowl because the NC$$ needs the money."
DIAGNOSIS
This person is a moron who is under the erroneous impression that he is being funny, like that one uncle who tells the same joke every Thanksgiving for 30 years. This affliction is always, always a sign that you can safely ignore anything the person says, as they are either twelve or have Down's Syndrome.
CURE
Insert bullet travelling at extremely high velocity into skull.
SUSCEPTIBLE FANBASES
Most common with universities best described as "technically not high school" or fanbases in areas where there is no pro alternative. Obviously, then, this is an absolute plague amongst OSU fans, and is rampant at MSU as well.
EXCEPTIONS
"tOSU" is permissible to use in a slightly disdainful fashion since OSU fans tend to use it themselves.
Would it have been better if I did told him?
This comes up about every 6 months, it seems. Oh well, I imagine everyone's good now until around the Sparty game.
The concept of seniority based on time is really really stupid. You don't get props for simply existing; anyone can do that.
He probably cares more about his son's future than his alma mater's. Going to play in Alabama for the rest of his college tenure is a much better situation for his future in football than dancing around at Northsoutheastern Weslyn College and trying to get back to OSU.
Yes true, but I enjoy thinking of the idea that he knows of imminent DOOOM brewing in Columbus.
What will be even more interesting, is seeing how Bama intends on making Duron maintain something a little higher than the 0.4 GPA he was rocking at OSU.
Why attend a school where it is possible to be academically ineligible? If you are academically ineligible at OSU(!) as a huge legacy recruit(!) and contributing freshman(!), well, you've got problems. Alabama is really the only choice left.
They have room because...
Nobody really knows how many guys we had on scholarship last year.
-Nick Saban
Its not hard to find space now for him, there are at least 8 guys leaving for the NFL from bama, did they have more than 7 EEs?
Everyone knows how it works for summer/fall enrollment down there, right now it shouldn't be a surprise they have space every school should have space. Kid could end getting dismissed before their fall practice even begins
Well in the past four recruiting classes they've signed 25, 32, 27 and 29 recruits, so that's some huge attrition compared to a school like ND or M.
They're a full class above the 85 limit in the past four years, so space is probably hard to come by.
They over-sign I am not disagreeing with that or sticking up for doing it. Its not new, and they aren't the only ones doing it.
My point was they aren't making space for him to make the team for spring practice. Nearly every team in the country will have a few open scholarships this time of year
I was just saying that it's probably harder for an Alabama to get a scholarship to open up than a ND or M, just because of how big all of their classes are.
Oh I understand what you mean. It can't be that hard or they wouldn't have done the past 4 years. Forcing kids to transfer, kids not going to class or not qualifying to begin with, they always find away. When players are disposable its easy.
True. Just have to remember how much they're helping those kids by doing that...
How many of those kids ever made it to campus anyway? I am sure they take the best players according to how many spots they have left to get to 85, and the rest of them "do not qualify" and end up at another program, or placed in a JC or prep school. That seems to be page 1 of the Houston Nutt, and Bobby Petrino playbook, so I am sure Saban does it too.
Every coach that over-signs is a disciplinarian between NSD & the start of summer camp. When he begins dismissing kids from his team for "breaking team rules", I hope someone calls him on the convenience of the discipline. I know he's been called on it before, but I think the more this is brought up the more it helps us get to a system where the NCAA adopts the Big Ten's policy on signing recruits.
It does seem like it could be a good discipline motivator. First spring practice could sound like this...
Gentlemen, right now we are 13 players over the 85 scholarship limit. That means when we finish spring practice 13 of you will no longer be here. Some of you will be a medical hardship and others will be removed for violating team rules. You don't know what those rules are, and honetly neither do we.
But, we know at least 13 of you won't be here and if any more 5 stars are looking to transfer to Alabama there could be even more. Roll Tide!
That is awesome, funny, and sad all at the same time.
You don't know what those rules are, and honetly neither do we. BEAUTIFUL!.
Had he been able to make the grades i would say he would be more prepared at the reciever position in the NFL if he had the grades to stay at tOSU. While Alabama is a good team, tOSU has a lot of good recievers in the league and seems to be a great place to build a top reciever (S. Holmes, M. Jenkins, A. gonzalez, Robiskie, Gallaway, etc), although i know they now have a new reciever coach. He could have probably went somewhere other than Alabama and been a better prepared reciever should he make it to the next level but like most kids im sure he just wanted to jump on a contender and take the ride. He should not worry about the NFL yet, but about not getting cut on some random Tuesday.