re: Pig Cage no longer on the roster

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I never once said the kid was in the wrong to leave. If you can get a scholarship elsewhere and can’t get one here then by all means go get it.

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Fair enough. I just know how tRant is at times when a player leaves, and I think this is a case where it’s not a great look.

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But an obvious friend or family member is here complaining that the current coaching staff didn’t uphold the promises of the former disastrous coaching staff.

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Friends and family are biased. It happens. I feel like I’ve seen waaay more insufferable friends/family members in tRant in the past.

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The kid has two options. He can keep feeling sorry for himself and blaming everyone else or he can prove em wrong.

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This is kind of what I’m talking about though. Maybe the kid didn’t get a fair shot. Maybe he did. Who knows? But it’s not like he’s going scorched earth on LSU. If he’s a little bitter that he didn’t get a scholarship after playing in 8 games and starting 1, I’d argue that’s pretty normal. Doesn’t mean he’s just sitting around feeling sorry for himself.

I don’t know, I’m just dreading the “well, bye” gifs and whatnot, and trying to get people to see it for what it is: an unfortunate situation.

Pig should transfer to Arkansas to be the mascot. Bye Pig!

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if he can find a spot on an FCS team. There are P5 scholarship players who enter the portal and can’t find a scholarship anywhere. Mannie Netherly, for example, never did and now drives a UPS truck

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He was a Freshman All-American in FCS. Mannie Netherly had never started a college game when he left LSU, unless I’m mistaken.

I get it. There’s certainly risk. But the other big difference is that Mannie Netherly left as a scholarship player. He had a lot more to lose by leaving than Pig Cage.

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Netherly had never started a college game when he left LSU, unless I’m mistaken.

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He started the Fiesta Bowl and was a top 250 player out of high school. Somewhat similar situation, though. They switched his position, he was buried on the depth chart, entered the portal, couldn’t find a scholarship, played juco for a year, still couldn’t find a scholarship, dropped out of school and started working

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He started the Fiesta Bowl and was a top 250 player out of high school. Somewhat similar situation, though.

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Ah yes. I forgot about all of the players we had out in that game. From that perspective, it’s definitely a similar situation.

Again, though, Netherly gave up a scholarship to leave. I would feel way differently about this if it were just about playing time.

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The thing is, I’m pretty sure in most situations if you play in 8 games and start 1, you’re going to be awarded a scholarship. There are scholarship players that contribute far less in their careers. Im genuinely curious to find out how common it is for players at P5 programs to contribute at that level and not receive scholarships the following year. Maybe it’s more common than I realize.

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Brian Kelly told two scholarship players, One a former 5 star receiver and another a guaranteed starting corner, goodbye for being late to workouts.

If he thinks a kid isn’t good enough to have a scholarship it really doesn’t matter what Ed thought or promised.

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He don't live in a dorm he lives in a Nicholson apt which is 5500 per semester per semester alone.

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Good to see football players are still living in Oakbrook

Some in here say he didn’t get a fair shot. How can you say that? Kelly was here for bowl practices and the bowl game. If he or the other coaches who have watched all game film from last year including the bowl, felt like he wasn’t good enough for a scholarship then so be it.
The rant and I include myself in this at times fall in love with the random players or recruits and feel jilted if our love isn’t reciprocated by the coaches. I feel for the kid that orgeron made a promise that he couldn’t keep bc he got fired. But that was the chance the kid took when agreeing to it. Kelly has a job and it is t to start Brennan bc he has been here for 6 years. And it isn’t to give pig cage a scholarship bc he played in a bowl game for us with 38 other guys.
Now he can go prove the coaches and any other doubters wrong at another school. If his performance was that good in the bowl game he should have no problem ending up somewhere. Whether mid major or fcs or wherever. Maybe some power 5 program. I still believe he is a lber in a db body and his coverage skills were not good enough. Yet.

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THEY told him he would be evaluated during the spring and possibly summer. Then THEY moved him from Nickel to cornerback the day before spring started. Because THEY said they were full at the Nickel position wherehe has been since he got here.. No opportunity to show what he can do to earn his scholarship.

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Ok 1st - Who TF is the ‘THEY’ you keep referring to? The ‘Orgeron’ Regime or the new BK coaching staff?

If he were 1 of the best Nickel Backs the staff would HAVE 2 recognize that & at least give him some reps at Nickel. I mean their Professionals, its literally what they do for a living & it behooves them as much if not more than anybody to make sure they’re playing the BEST players at every position.