PSA: Football Team Holding Open Tryouts
I think any regular contributor to this board who criticized even one player for making a bad play last year should be REQUIRED to attend these tryouts. But that's just me...
Joking aside, I found this sentence odd: "NCAA eligibility rules require student-athletes not be more than six years removed from high school." Is that actually correct? I distinctly remember a few stories this year about a 40-something defensive end at an FBS school. Plus, isn't Stetson Bennett like 35 or something??
January 6th, 2023 at 2:56 PM ^
Stetson Bennett IV is a USPS letter carrier, change my mind
January 6th, 2023 at 3:00 PM ^
Law Partner.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:46 PM ^
Bennett, Bennett, Bennett, and Stetson
January 6th, 2023 at 3:00 PM ^
Nope, washed-up rodeo star who gets by on whiskey and memories...
January 6th, 2023 at 4:02 PM ^
Smells like old spice?
January 6th, 2023 at 8:02 PM ^
Hey... wait a minute! If there was no one smelling like old spice, half of us wouldn't exist right now!
January 6th, 2023 at 9:23 PM ^
I bought a bottle as a memory to my father. I lie how the skin tighteners and chin chillers take effect.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:03 PM ^
Fine leather and western apparel maker.
January 6th, 2023 at 4:34 PM ^
That's incorrect. The pony express was never a part of the U.S. Postal Service.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:00 PM ^
Plus a former NBA player played college golf this past year. The name is escaping me
January 6th, 2023 at 3:02 PM ^
JR Smith
January 6th, 2023 at 3:28 PM ^
JR Smith
January 6th, 2023 at 3:47 PM ^
JR Hennessy
January 6th, 2023 at 4:48 PM ^
Both Grayson Allen and draymond green have been busy whacking around balls while still playing in the NBA.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:01 PM ^
Can we try out for head coach? We may still need one of those.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
Can you imagine the shit we would be in if Jim had purchased THREE burgers?
January 7th, 2023 at 8:50 AM ^
Oh the tragedy of it all ...... and just think of the children!!!
January 6th, 2023 at 3:06 PM ^
Me:
Harbaugh:
January 6th, 2023 at 3:15 PM ^
What about Brandon Weedon? Wasn't he 28 when he played for Oklahoma State?
Unless he was held back in high school a few years, I don't get it.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:25 PM ^
The six years out of high school thing isn’t exactly/completely how it works, but it gets the job done because it’s a safe cut off line for compliance purposes. Ostensibly the walk ons would be enrolled students, so their eligibility clock would start then (when they first enrolled), but which isn’t an easy compliance check, whereas just going with six years out of high school would be. In the case of the older athletes (like Weedon and Reed) it’s because they hadn’t previously enrolled. It works in the reverse, too (ie when your clock is up, even if you have eligibility years left, you’re done (generally)). I suppose the purpose is to prevent people like me who are 20+ years out of school, but who still have NCAA years left unused, from re-enrolling and playing (note: any sport, not just the one you used eligibility in, at any school).
January 6th, 2023 at 3:41 PM ^
This is so disappointing. Now that I've retired and my wife is no longer here to hold me back, I was contemplating finally enrolling at U of M, working on a master's degree, walking on, and eventually earning a scholarship to help pay for said degree. Another fantasy balloon burst.
January 6th, 2023 at 5:08 PM ^
avatar checks out
January 7th, 2023 at 11:17 AM ^
I always thought it was your eligibility expired five years after you began college. That’s why you see guys play ball after service in the military.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:20 PM ^
BA ‘92 applying for grad transfer status.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:23 PM ^
I tried out for and indoor football team 18 years ago at the urging of my friend who played for the team. Made it to the 2nd round before I was cut. I feel pretty proud of that since at that time I hadn't played football in 10 years. I did play winger on the city rugby team prior to that, so I wasn't going in fully unprepared, but still, it felt good to not get cut in round 1 haha.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:24 PM ^
6×4 years removed from HS, with some eligibility left. I can be the backup to the backup waterboy.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:38 PM ^
What's the salary if you make the team (in burgers, of course)?
January 6th, 2023 at 5:09 PM ^
c'mon man, this is the NIL era. Signing bonuses are paid in burgers, not salaries.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:41 PM ^
If the team needs a fourth string kickoff specialist, I'm down.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:42 PM ^
... checking my notes, my birth certificate, my high school graduation . . .
January 6th, 2023 at 3:43 PM ^
I'm almost certain it's six decades removed from high school. So LOTSA time left.
Put me in, Coach!
January 7th, 2023 at 11:51 AM ^
January 6th, 2023 at 3:52 PM ^
Little hat nervous cattle is a Detmer.
January 6th, 2023 at 3:52 PM ^
I'm pretty sure that I could have started for several of Rich Rod's defenses!
January 7th, 2023 at 8:40 AM ^
Only if you faced the wrong way!
January 6th, 2023 at 3:58 PM ^
Most of BYU’s team is nearing social security eligibility.
January 6th, 2023 at 4:04 PM ^
Fun fact - Stetson Bennett and Lamar Jackson are the same age.
January 6th, 2023 at 8:42 PM ^
Until tomorrow
January 6th, 2023 at 4:37 PM ^
I thought I heard one the TV commentators saying that the TCU kicker was 29 years old. There are more than a few kickers in the NCCA Div 1 football who came over Australia who are in the their mid 20s. I may be wrong...
-Just sayin.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:03 PM ^
I heard he was 31
January 6th, 2023 at 4:39 PM ^
I still have my COVID year of eligibility left. I'll be there.
If you thought that John Navarre was slow ...
January 6th, 2023 at 5:21 PM ^
Shit FauxMo.
That would be the entire board pretty much.
University of Michigan Medical Center orthopedic wing would be overrun worse than the covid epidemic.
January 6th, 2023 at 7:38 PM ^
Ha! I already have a torn ACL, and you can't tear it twice before it gets replaced. I could be a goal line back.
January 6th, 2023 at 6:21 PM ^
Over them mountains...
January 6th, 2023 at 5:29 PM ^
Annnnnnnnd here come the armchair qb's from MGo ready to show their stuff on the field