Rodney Gallagher having himself a nice season
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That may be true, but if they won 3 or 4 of the last 5 it wouldn't be true.
You're confusing least talented with very young. WVU is literally playing at least 3 true freshman or more. We're just now recovering from whatever AD Lyons did to hold Brown back regarding NIL. Not an excuse, just the truth.
They blow, dude. You are barely better than us and we are atrocious. You are lucky the B12 is historically bad. This season is the worst thing that could have happened to WVU. Brown is squeeking out a bunch of W's against really bad teams to ensure he's coming back
Another standout performance by Gallagher. 0 catches, 0 yards. Cant even sniff the field in a blowout exhibition game. Cal, IUP, and Slippery Rock are chomping at the bit for his services. Could be a nice slot guy or 3rd down WR in the PSAX
Dude, give it up. His team is OK. He got his heavy bag. He's just a freshman.
Let it go.
Let it go.
Not buying the "he's just a freshman." He didnt redshirt. A walk-on freshman beat him out. He barely could get on the field. He only had 3 years left and completely wasted 1. Chances are he isnt very good.
A lot of them turn out not to be very good. But a large percentage of good players, as freshman, aren't any good yet.
I dunno about the kid, but why bury him? He went to college a short distance from home, and his background isn't extremely stable. So many people say WPIAL kids should "stay home", and geographically, that's what he did.
Wasn't the bag for immediate play?
In this new NIL era you gotta perform NOW for your $ or be recruited over!
In this new NIL era you gotta perform NOW for your $ or be recruited over!
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He got big money, a hometown premium so the expectation could not have been to bring him along slowly so that maybe he can be a good player when he's a junior or senior.
Stop worrying about what Gallagher is doing. He's not part of the Panthers. Worry about Pitt
I am talking about the school! Paying players to grow into a role is gone for teams like Pitt and WV.
Dumb post
Meh. I disagree. To expect someone to come in to produce as a true freshman is unrealistic.
If that was the goal, it was a bad decision. He has 3 years left, plenty of time for that investment to pay off.
If he enters portal, your post is valid. If not, it’s not.
If he enters the portal or does not perform well! Developmental money is lean for schools like WV! They would much rather pay NIL money and get production imo. They have to think their return on this is lacking.
A valid point. I don’t disagree.
Probably not great to shoot your wad on a 3 star slot wr high school recruit from laurel highlsnds.
Which brings us back to the the question, why is this even a topic here?
They call it something a little less abrasive now. Learning deficient, Kind of like George Pickens.
These guys couldn’t play football, they’d have social workers hired by the state to teach them how to go to a store and feed themselves.
Two generations ago they’d be in a state hospital eating paste, but we’ve progressed since then.
But they are fast and tall so hey, good for them.
I have never heard of an entrance exam ever given to a D1 athlete probably since the 1980's.
The NCAA Eligibility Center, formerly the Clearinghouse determines your eligibility.
a recent (in last 10 years) player in the wpial was given an entrance exam to qualify at pitt, he was given an exemption that he could take it in the same room with an "advisor" this was well after the initial clearinghouse process. something that no high school kid could do unless they were designated with a learning disability.
it happens, a lot. pitt bent over backwards to get him "eligible" which they did and well it worked out, then it didnt.
He was one of the biggest recruits on paper in decades at WVU. And probably the biggest local recruit in a generation. He plays WR, a position its quite easy to get on the field early if you are good. He is going to a mediocre at best program. This isnt Robert Foster at Bama. A bum walk-on from Martinsburg, WV who is also a freshman beat him out. He got $200K. There is no chance, none, that he was paid that money with the idea that its going to take him a few years to develop. He plays for West friggin Virginia, not Alabama. That RB they have, they switched him to RB like a day before the Pitt games a true frosh and he became a star. Its not hard if you are good. Gallagher isnt good. Same bum who couldn't lead his LH team to victories over Derry, McGuffey, Southmoreland, and all those tremendous programs in the hinterlands. He will be at Cal U soon
Yea, Foster may be dumb but that story is made up. It may have been a placement exam to see like what math he needed to take but you dont need to cheat on that
This doesn't make any sense.
I can't find anything on PITT's admissions page concerning "entrance" exams. However, there are such things as "placement" exams in CGS and CAS.
I just don't know how one can be cleared by the eligibility center and not by the University. Scholarship athletes are essentially non-traditional students. Are you saying he was cleared by the eligibility center yet denied admission by PITT?
That's really nice of you. The problem is for this "local" guy, is that WVU is probably closer to where he grew up than Pitt. You act like all of these kids are obligated to go where you tell them to go.
You're weird, you just hate that this kid didn't go to Pitt, I don't care if he's an All American or a Bust, but I'm not purposely rooting against that person because he didn't go to Pitt, unless he's playing against Pitt.
Going by google maps, it's 29 miles and a 34 minute drive from his high school to Morgantown and 54 miles and an hour and four minute drive to Oakland.
So yeah, "local".
This whole SMF thread will eventually be on a par with several other ridiculous threads he has authored over the past few years. We can go back just 12-18 months and read his non-sense about the B12 imploding and how there is less than zero chance any of the P12 schools would join such a league.
The guy is a legitimate moron. And there are dozens of threads by him to prove it. As time moves on, this one will be thrown on his ash heap as well.
They seriously paid an unproven high school talent that plays a position other than QB that type of money and he didn't play? Is that for one year or over four years?
