re: Wake Forest's Jamie Newman has entered the transfer portal as grad transfer

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This line of thinking is crazy to me.

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I think that sitting for three years and learning behind the Transfer brought in for when he definitely was not ready, contributing as the primary back up, and keeping a good attitude about it all, means that he has earned the opportunity to start. This all assumes the coaches have not seen something that makes them think he just isn’t starting quality. Besides that, I think that’s what people (including me) mean by, “he’s earned it.” If you mean he has to start and win games to earn the “starting” job, that’s kind of cart before the horse.

You recruit multiple freshman to develop and compete but bringing in a Transfer usually means it’s to start at QB (or provide depth; and it’s known that he’d be the backup). The transfers (good ones) are usually transferring to start, not compete, agree or not.

I agree, it’s better for the program to bring in top talent to compete. And anything is possible once they are on the field. But, these guys leave their program to start somewhere else.