The Football Transfers out

[Louisiana84]

Hey, Big Buds. Alabama had the analytics going back 3 seasons. They knew exactly what they were getting when they dropped $350k on Trey Amos. He is not projected as a starter but as a situational player, a fifth defensive back in nickel situations.

[Louisiana84]

The problem with this business for a school like Louisiana is that Trey Amos had excellent coaching for three years. We paid Trey's position coach $250k/year to coach him up, and the kid cashes out with all we put into him. The bottom line is that schools like Alabama can not only decimate a roster like ours but also ruin a serious capital investment we made. No matter how much we loved and coached Trey, no matter how much he loved Louisiana, he could not pass up $350k. That is the point.

Schools like Louisiana cannot compete in an environment like that. No way in hell that this type of system is fair to our university. We have become a farm club, a minor league for the Autonomous 5.

https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/it...n-for-the-ncaa

[JMV JustMyView]

The problem with this business for a school like Louisiana is that Trey Amos had excellent coaching for three years. We paid Trey's position coach $250k/year to coach him up, and the kid cashes out with all we put into him. The bottom line is that schools like Alabama can not only decimate a roster like ours but also ruin a serious capital investment we made. No matter how much we loved and coached Trey, no matter how much he loved Louisiana, he could not pass up $350k. That is the point.

Schools like Louisiana cannot compete in an environment like that. No way in hell that this type of system is fair to our university. We have become a farm club, a minor league for the Autonomous 5.

https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/it...n-for-the-ncaa

He got 250K, not 350K.

[cajun4life]

Kind of like Mekhi garner and Eli ricks

Yup Garner had a 2nd round grade while here. Left for LSU and was their best CB. He went undrafted. He will likely still make a NFL roster this season though.

[JMV JustMyView]

Yup Garner had a 2nd round grade while here. Left for LSU and was their best CB. He went undrafted. He will likely still make a NFL roster this season though.

I never thought Garner was that good. When he left UL he was a third team sun belt corner.

[Atown cajun]

It's worse than anyone knows. This transfer/portal business is based on analytics. Athletic departments are using software to identify players they can buy. They see a player that provides the skill set they are looking for and they make him an offer. That is how we lost our players to the portal. In my mind, it's heinous.

Student-athletes are chattel; it's akin to trafficking and slavery. Players are targeted, and yes, you may argue, they are paid. But the cost of all this goes far beyond the treatment of skilled athletes as a commodity. We're losing something important while trying to fix what was a broken system. Student-athletes are pimping themselves out; it seems un-Christian.

Alabama knew exactly who Trey Amos was, exactly what skill set he offered, and they bought him to fill a temporary need. In the olden days they wouldn't have known him from Adam. When they are done with him, he will be discarded like candy wrapper.

I think people realize this and either don't care, or just look they other way.

A candy wrapper with 300k in his pocket.

[JMV JustMyView]

A candy wrapper with 300k in his pocket.

250K

[CajunVic]

. . . all this just bolsters the position that where a University like Louisiana’s bread is buttered is in Academia, not athletics . . . once some of you get that, we can have nice things here, until then, just keep on being miserable and enjoy your miserable existence . . . Dr Fun has it right . . .

[Big Buds]

Hey, Big Buds. Alabama had the analytics going back 3 seasons. They knew exactly what they were getting when they dropped $350k on Trey Amos. He is not projected as a starter but as a situational player, a fifth defensive back in nickel situations.

You think so? I don’t know. He really showed out in Shreveport.

[Rainman66]

If you think that young people with exceptional talent and poverty aren’t motivated by money you’re nuts. If that’s their sole motivation they still can compete at a high level in order to get to their next payday the NFL. A person of bad character will have bad character with or without money.

Not even close to what I typed.

[JamesTheJeweler]

Mekhi Garner wouldn't have started in Saban's defensive backfield. Ricks was injured part of his only season, and only played enough to make 11 tackles, 8 solo.

So again, I stand by what I said: If Amos ends up being the starter at Alabama and can hang in there as the starter for the season, he will be drafted.

Wow. Really going out on a limb on that one, huh?