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Best of luck to them. It was once considered unethical to cut unproductive kids. Now they cut themselves. I'm not saying these guys in particular, just a general observation.
Also, the grass isn't always greener, but it is for some kids.
Hope they all do well in their new homes and their replacements do even more than they did.
Also, the grass isn't always greener, but it is for some kids.
Hope they all do well in their new homes and their replacements do even more than they did.
He said Narduzzi and Partridge were obviously surprised. Reasoning that he wants to give younger guys a chance. Odd, but oh well. Great kid.
What I don't get is impactful players/starters leaving. You found a home. You start. You're making an impact. No guarantees you'll fit in elsewhere.
Yeah it does
Quality experienced depth losing always hurts
That’s the issue and reason why so many people were surprised with Addison leaving. Starter, star of the team, award winner, and likely a first round pick. Some writer last year referenced that and how it could set up a bad precedent.
I hate the transfer rule, but understand how they want to give kids a chance to see the field, but makes you wonder why a starter or player who get playing time leave$.
In a vacuum it doesn't matter a ton. In conjunction with losing Alexandre and Baldonado it does.
Hayes has come on at the end of each of the last two seasons and I think provided some optimism, but what about before that?
This season, he has 4 tackles for a loss and 3 sacks. All in the last game against Miami.
Last season, he had 9 TFL (6.5 in the final 3 games) and 3 sacks (all in the final 3 games). Hopefully he's ready out of the gate this time. And I do realize he has also missed some time,
I only mention him, because he is now DE1 if Habba leaves. So it's Hayes, Brima (?), Johnson, Temple, and Okunola as a freshman. I don't know about you, but I like this past year's group a little better.
Does anyone here think that is the actual reason?
This is what I think kind of screws a school like Pitt. If you don't give the young guys a chance, they'll just leave. However, shouldn't our formula be to comprise a starting roster of mostly upperclassmen. Like, our young low 3-stars against Clemson's young 4 and 5-stars isn't exactly a winning formula. It needs to be our developed 22-year-olds vs Clemson's green 19 and 20-year-olds. The same way Dixon and Howland did it for a decade. Otherwise, how do we stand a chance? Well, I guess the answer is probably that we don't.
You can read the article and decide for yourself. He sounds sincere.
PSN Exclusive: DE John Morgan on Transferring from Pitt: ‘It Would Be Wrong of Me to Stay’
John Morgan has seen and experienced a lot during his five years with the Pitt Panther football program, but that run will come to an end after the 2022 season. The pass-rushing defensive end from Upper Marlboro, Maryland has been a part of 40 Pitt wins, has been a member of a Pitt defense...
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While i understand your POV, these cases are a little different i think
JA lost his QB here, and had a chance to play with what turns out to be the Heisman winner.
Morgan will rush the passer anywhere.
I wont even dive into the NIL $$$
What team plays mostly against drop back passers? He made it sound like he would have options, and I can’t think of teams or conferences who face that on a consistent basis.You can read the article and decide for yourself. He sounds sincere.
PSN Exclusive: DE John Morgan on Transferring from Pitt: ‘It Would Be Wrong of Me to Stay’
John Morgan has seen and experienced a lot during his five years with the Pitt Panther football program, but that run will come to an end after the 2022 season. The pass-rushing defensive end from Upper Marlboro, Maryland has been a part of 40 Pitt wins, has been a member of a Pitt defense...
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I don't know. If he thinks he can showcase himself better elsewhere that's up to him. I know he has the experience and production, but I am anxious to see some of the highly rated youngsters get out there.
I hope it works out for him.
Nobody has ever transferred to give guys behind them more PT.You can read the article and decide for yourself. He sounds sincere.
PSN Exclusive: DE John Morgan on Transferring from Pitt: ‘It Would Be Wrong of Me to Stay’
John Morgan has seen and experienced a lot during his five years with the Pitt Panther football program, but that run will come to an end after the 2022 season. The pass-rushing defensive end from Upper Marlboro, Maryland has been a part of 40 Pitt wins, has been a member of a Pitt defense...
Reading this in its entirety, I’m guessing Morgan wasn’t going to be used the way he wants to he used next season. That’s what this quote says to me anyway:
“at the end of the day, they understand that sometime certain situations don’t work out for everybody.”
🌹👓You can read the article and decide for yourself. He sounds sincere.
PSN Exclusive: DE John Morgan on Transferring from Pitt: ‘It Would Be Wrong of Me to Stay’
John Morgan has seen and experienced a lot during his five years with the Pitt Panther football program, but that run will come to an end after the 2022 season. The pass-rushing defensive end from Upper Marlboro, Maryland has been a part of 40 Pitt wins, has been a member of a Pitt defense...
I would be. Why would anyone throw money at a 6th year platoon defensive end from Pitt?
When I read about it that was my own first reaction. Just figured he was told he wouldn’t get much PT next season due to the need to elevate some of the younger guys, and decided to move elsewhere with aim to start and play in his final college season. Almost certainly that will be a program in a conference lower than ours, with not much if any NIL money at its disposal. Of course there are a few “aspiring” programs like JMU, Liberty, East Carolina etc that may hunger to bring in some guys from P5’s and maybe they have some delusional boosters who will throw him some shekels. Nothing against him, so I hope it works out.
I honestly think he was going to start and play a ton--but maybe he wasn't happy with how he was going to be used. I think due to his size he sees his NFL opportunity as a stand up pass rusher, basically a 3-4 OLB the same way Jones and Weaver are used. Weaver and Jones were much better all-around 4-3 ends than Morgan, they were solid against the run, setting the edge, etc. Morgan is more of a one-trick pony. He's twitchy and explosive off the edge and can get after the QB, but he's not a hand on the ground kind of DE who's going to stand up a blocker and take away the edge.
My thought anyway. The defense would be better with him than without him next year.
I know it feels like it but Pitt isn't the only school seeing this sort of thing happening. The dynamic is definitely changing but you lose good players every season.
Yeah, players are making lateral moves just for the sake of doing it. It's a big swingers party, and it's getting kind of annoying.
I'm not so sure they're going to lose fans every season, too. This completely changes the dynamics of college football. And, not for the better.
We're going to have more roster changes to other teams than the NFL.
It will be interesting to look back in a few years and see what the transfer portal has done to the sport.
I hope it ends poorly for as many of those kids chasing $$$ as possible. Not because I begrudge these kids for making money but because i want this all to implode ASAP.
Sure, JA played with a better qb, but he also played on a team with much better wide receivers. Wayne had more yards here, with a mediocre qb, than he did at USC with the best qb. His stats likely would have been much better at Pitt, and he might have garnered some national honors - like he did last year.
So because the NCAA has screwed up for decades you want kids (your word) to suffer?
