The Football Transfers out

[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?