On College Gameday just now. Predicted he is going to Pitt. That would be awesome
Dante Cephas Mention
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ND has offered him Just have to wait and ee what plays out.
Notre Dame Offers Former Kent State Wide Receiver Dante Cephas
Notre Dame extended an offer to former Kent State wide receiver Dante Cephas
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He's going to PSU if they take him. 🔐
He's WAY overrated though. Probably wouldn't start for us. Shocky had 1000 yards this year in the MAC. Based on that, I'd assume he'd be going to Georgia or Bama if he had another year. The MAC is terrible.
Looks like 247 has changed their tune As of today. Interesting, in light of all the banter on here, is Dante’s comment about wanting to enroll in January.
Maybe that’s old information? IDK?
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Looks like 247 has changed their tune As of today. Interesting, in light of all the banter on here, is Dante’s comment about wanting to enroll in January.
Maybe that’s old information? IDK?
Nice!! Now if we can find a RB.........
If Pete Thamel is reporting this, it is legit.
In a day where journalism has never been more lazy.....and meant for entertainment as opposed to reporting,
Thamel is a rock and is arguably the best there is.
Welcome home Mr Cephas.
In a day where journalism has never been more lazy.....and meant for entertainment as opposed to reporting,
Thamel is a rock and is arguably the best there is.
Welcome home Mr Cephas.
From rummaging around, he wants to go to PSU but there's some issue with his KSU credits transferring. Given that Pitt's academic standards are probably even higher than PSU, it's unclear to me why he wouldn't face the same problems here.
If Pitt can take him, so can the nits. We’ll see where he ends up.
Agree. Credibility is important to the pros who use their real name. They know their info needs to as accurate as possible before going public.
Looks like 247 is deferring to Thamel and corroborating.
I don't think he would be amassing the offers he is without having some pretty good tangibles. I know there isn't a transfer combine, but they can determine certain things by watching game tape.
On the other side of the coin... fans often misconstrue these offers. The fact that Georgia offers doesn't necessarily think they'll mean he will be a star; there's value in mere veteran presence. Like Dippre (tight end from Maryland) entered the portal a few weeks ago and Pitt fans were meh on him... then he ended up at freaking Alabama.
Cephas may or may not start for us next season. But I'm sure as hell willing to take him. The Mumpfield/Shocky recency bias is skewing some perceptions. And Mumpfield is better than what his stats were this past season.
Agreed, and I also don’t get the shot taken at Shocky. He’s a good receiver that simply got out-recruited by some absolute studs (Addison, Mack, Wayne). No shame in that, and I’m glad he had a good season at Akron.
Yeah, I don't think he was some terrible player. There was only one ball to go around, and like you said, there were multiple guys ahead of him. He looked a little confused in the offense at times in '21 (maybe he was playing a different receiving position... I don't know), but he did flash the talent when given a chance. UNC '19 comes to mind. Had we known we were losing Addison, I'm sure we'd have wanted him back.
Can't imagine we'd have lost him last year if Addison didn't pull that late move. Who knows. He wouldn't have hurt to have, that's for sure.
Las Panteras, question for you.
Last month you dropped a nugget about Charlie Partridge. Is there anything new on that front?
Penn State and UCLA have both advised him to return to Kent State for the spring semester and graduate, not sure if it is true but transferring to any school on his list for the spring semester would set him back a year academically.
You think D1 football players are concerned about "being set back a year academically," especially with everyone having an extra year to play a sport thanks to the COVID rules? It's not like you need to be a grad transfer anymore in order to be allowed to transfer.
If a school was telling me I can't transfer now, wait til the Spring, I would take that to mean that particular school is thinking "we might not need you, let us see what our current young WRs on the roster look like after getting some reps with QB1 during spring ball, and if they look inadequate, we will open a schollie for you then."
Right, he has two years of eligibility left. Sounds more like a numbers problem from some schools that are interested, and don't want him enrolling in January.
I don't think it's like that; I think he legitimately isn't able to get into these schools as an undergrad. But I think schools are way less stringent about academic requirements if you're working on a graduate degree. That might be his only path to eligibility.
They do say "Kent read, Kent write, Kent State."
If that's true, then he's not getting into Pitt or ND, either, if he can't get into PSU and UCLA. Probably ends up at WVU?
Those Parks and Recreation & Hotel Management degrees that UPS offers have some VERY stringent academic requirements
Well I think his options open up a little once he graduates (hence, them telling him to do it that way). I'm guessing he could go pretty much anywhere, save for maybe a select few schools, at that point. Hopefully it's Pitt. Penn State just nabbed a transfer receiver yesterday from NC State.
I could be totally wrong, but I don't think you have to perform as well as a post-grad to remain academically eligible. So he could probably graduate from Kent and come here for a Master's in stacking paper cups or something. But I'm not 100% on that.
Wanted SJL to be good. But he seemed a step slower than he needed to be at our level. We tried like hell to use him with jet sweeps and the like, but he didn’t seem to have the burst to get to the edge, nor the ability to make any moves if he didn’t. Most typically, the play fizzled with him simply running straight out of bounds. As a receiver, he seemed only effective on sideline routes, after which he also promptly stepped out of bounds (though he was usually reliable to catch the ball).
He made occasional plays here and there, as a regular gibrone 3rd/4th receiver does in the course of a season. There had been expectations he’d be more than that for us though. Maybe it unfair…his exotic name alone screamed for him to be a standout! Unfortunately though he was just another guy for us. He obviously seemed to find a better situation for his skill set at Akron.
He made occasional plays here and there, as a regular gibrone 3rd/4th receiver does in the course of a season. There had been expectations he’d be more than that for us though. Maybe it unfair…his exotic name alone screamed for him to be a standout! Unfortunately though he was just another guy for us. He obviously seemed to find a better situation for his skill set at Akron.
why on Earth would the #1 receiver in the portal want to play in a HS offense with a terrible OC and defensive head coach?
If I'm him, and WVU accepts my credits and doesn't require me to graduate first, but all other schools tell me wait until graduation, I think I'm picking WVU. For one, there's probably a benefit in having the WVU degree over a KSU degree. Two, I would get the chance to participate with my new team during spring practices, making me more ready to be a part of this new team come time for starting camp in summer.
I don't think it is about remaining eligible. I think it comes down to this- if he comes in as an undergrad the new school has to accept or reject his credits from his old school. He might be 12 credits away from graduation at Kent but be set back a year if Penn State rejects 30 credits. If he gets his undergrad degree, it's just a matter of being accepted to a graduate program, which is very easy to do when a school wants you on the football team.
Yeah, that's what it is about now. That's why we couldn't take Colbie Young last year. I'm just saying the fact that he's where he's at leads me to believe he's not an exemplary student so I think once he graduates he's kind of "in the clear" from an eligibility perspective - at least for one season.
Oh I'm sure participating in Spring football would be a huge factor if there is a P5 school that allows him to enroll early. You would think there are only a few more weeks for that to happen, though, so I guess we should know soonish.
Well that's the thing: He needs a certain amount of credits to transfer to be eligible if he wants to enroll in the Spring. I don't think they care about his academic endeavors either, but he'd already have a home if that were the only hang-up.
I'm sure a school like Pitt might be willing to wait this one out a little more than a school like Penn State, who will just go get the next guy (as they did yesterday).
Agree, my comment more towards there being an ulterior motive to having him graduate and not lose an academic year. Schools don't care about that.
But I don't think it's a number of credits issue for eligibility either since he's been in school for 3.5 years.
I'm guessing they do it something like this:
You've been in school 3.5 years. At Pitt, you need 12 credits per semester to remain eligible. So at this point in your academic career, you need 84 credits that transfer to Pitt to enroll here in the Spring (well, January).
And then if they don't accept X amount of those credits and/or he just doesn't have that many anyway, he can't do that. I'm just spitballing the actual numbers, though I imagine they're not too far off.
I'm not expert on the matter, but I believe it would work similarly to that. And I think it's what cost us Colbie Young last year. Don't know if it was because Miami accepted some credits that Pitt didn't or maybe he was taking a summer course and had a later deadline to reach X amount of credits at Miami than he did at Pitt.
I'm no expert either, but I'm just thinking he doesn't need to transfer as a senior in line to graduate. Can't he transfer in as whatever (lets just say Sophomore), and then need X number of credits to graduate? Maybe you can't do that and be eligible, no idea. He surely has enough to fulfill whatever the minimum number is he needs to transfer in. Maybe Colby Young couldn't coming from JUCO or wherever.
Or, maybe, the kid hates school but still wants a degree. He'd prefer not to go another year, though, and I suspect this is the hang-up, since it seems obvious that something is amiss with his grades/transcripts. If he wants to graduate but doesn't want to go another year or so, then he probably needs to stay put for a while and finish up.
