re: Moscona says LSU is going after Jack Pyburn

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I think Trinidad playing is ridiculous

I think the 28 year old Miami TE playing was ridiculous

And this is fricking ridiculous.

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Wild times... but Pyburn would only be a 5th year senior. Its not like he's one of these 6th or 7th year guys at 25 years old still trying to play.

...also I dont think he's worth the embarrassment of trying to bring back. He wasn't productive. I would rather them give the guys thats already on the roster an opportunity. We have 7 healthy guys at the Edge position (8 if you include Braker).

Not good.

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but Pyburn would only be a 5th year senior. Its not like he's one of these 6th or 7th year guys at 25 years old still trying to play.

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He had two sacks last week in an NFL preseason game. It’s utterly stupid at this point.

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Good morning, my friend.

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Good Morning. I do still think half of what Moscona says is made-up BS.

Honestly, if he just reigned in that hyper-speculative part(which is when he runs with questionable info), he'd be much better. He's still way more tolerable to me than Blake Ruffino.

Makes sense he adds some great depth to the line.

I could see us after the ole miss safety as well

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He had two sacks last week in an NFL preseason game. It’s utterly stupid at this point.

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Yeah, as an objective fan of college football and taking off my LSU fandom, this particular absurdity is too much for me. I think it’s worse—way worse—than the Chambliss thing. I just can’t get past the image of Pyburn in a Bucs uniform having 2 sacks in an official NFL preseason game, and then eventually winding up back in college. It’s gross.

But I’m just using Pyburn because I actually saw it and know him. The same would go for any other guys who played in an NFL preseason game. That’s just a line I don’t think you should be able to cross and come back from. Think about how pissed off some of young college players who have been busting their asses all offseason, all training camp, doing everything they can to earn a spot in a rotation who finally do, are elated and proud of their hard work, then right before the season some 23-year-old who’s been in an NFL program practicing and playing against NFL guys, gets cut because of numbers one day, and the next is in the 2-deep rotation at your school, bumping you off and out to where you have to wait another year to try to do it all over again.

I’m not taking about the Princewills or Rosses, but the Carpenters, Cobbins, Braikers, Hendersons. Or the guys at the back end of rosters that will be “asked” to go to JUCO for a year and come back to open a roster spot, knowing that roster spot for next year is anything but guaranteed. I just think this will have some unintended consequences that will be bad for the sport overall, and some of the human beings actually affected.

I know some will say, “frick them, they’re getting paid now, deal with it” because for whatever reason, there’s a significant group of people who are under the impression that all college athletes are suddenly millionaires because of NIL. Which is ridiculous.

But I wouldn’t blame Pyburn or any other player in his situation for coming back and taking advantage of this. Not would I blame Kiffin or any other coach who welcomes them back. They kind of have to. I’d bet the majority of college coaches don’t like this. Just too much disruption right before the season. But Lane, for example, can’t not do it if his competitors are doing it. Him taking a moral, “in the best interest of college football” stance would be dereliction if Golding or any other coach of an SEC or P4 program weren’t doing the same.

Of the 15 or so players mentioned, you’ve got Pyburn and 3 Ole Miss guys. Could we use them? Of course? Would they make us better? Obviously. (Unless it causes locker room issues, which is very real possibility—another unintended consequence). Do we NEED them? No. But we also can’t afford them all winding up at Ole Miss. So you almost have to take them to block the other schools from getting better as much as you do in order to make your own team better.

Again, this all just feels gross. But I don’t even know who to blame. Don’t blame the players who get to continue their football careers back in college and get paid to do so. Don’t blame the coaches who are forced to do it in order to not have a competitive disadvantage. Don’t blame the NCAA—remember, these players are still ineligible per the NCAA rules—whose authority has been deemed feckless by court after court after court. (They did frick up royally on the timing of the announcement of 5 for 5, though). Not sure I even blame the courts, who are just ruling based on their interpretation of current law. I don’t know. I guess it just is what it is. But I hate it.

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I really dont care if people are upset over this. If the rules say he can play. Thats the rules.

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That’s not correct, the rules say he can’t play.
The judge is saying he can until it’s adjudicated.

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Don’t blame the NCAA

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I absolutely blame the NCAA. Not for their current approach but for Emmert and the Presidents/AD's who sat with their thumbs up their butts pleading for the "amateur" status of the student athlete. Everyone knew that was bullshite and players were getting paid, yet they were penalizing kids for accepting a hamburger at a local restaurant. They were denying them the right to have NIL deals. Any competent, rational person, let alone academics and sports administrators knew this was a losing stance. They could have headed all his crap off by being more proactive.
Their Deny, delay, deflect and defend strategy failed miserably. Once they let it get to the courts they were going to lose.
As Bugs Bunny would say, "what a bunch of maroons."

Sounds like the rules arent right then. If someone is suing.