McCulley in the portal per Twitter nt
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Going to be more common. It’s like a tryout before redshirting. We haven’t needed him so far.
Too much competition for playing time apparently. Or he got a better offer.
Maybe a little bit of both. Our current WR's are all very good. He initially got behind the 8-ball & never got into the rotation.
Well, that's BS. Was rooting for the guy. He would've helped out going forward.
thought things were moving in the right direction after his TD last week.
Great potential but he didn't put in the effort Cig wanted. Even got called out in public. Looks like people need to work hard to play here. Nice to have a coach with standards. Go Hoosiers!
So I assume this means what? He'll redshirt the rest of this season and play a 5th year elsewhere next year?
The receiver room will be fine. EJ Williams slots into his role nicely and even without McCulley + EJ Williams the room has been crushing.
And this probably makes sense from his perspective as a business decision. He has day 2 pick upside if he can string together a good season and he's tracking towards UDFA with his snap share as it currently stands. I don't fault him for doing it, but it's so deeply disappointing that this is the new normal.
Also in all likelihood one our five highest paid NIL players. NIL is simply not sustainable. Enforceability is the next shoe to drop.
And this probably makes sense from his perspective as a business decision. He has day 2 pick upside if he can string together a good season and he's tracking towards UDFA with his snap share as it currently stands. I don't fault him for doing it, but it's so deeply disappointing that this is the new normal.
Also in all likelihood one our five highest paid NIL players. NIL is simply not sustainable. Enforceability is the next shoe to drop.
Bio has already been scrubbed from the roster page, I love it. Get on the train or get off the tracks.
How did you know that? Just curious if you have some inside sources that mention things here and there.
He can't. Doesn't have a redshirt to burn. This is his last season of college football no matter what.
EDIT: I'm wrong. COVID year doesn't count. He has a redshirt to burn. Hypothetically could.
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I don't begrudge players leaving because they don't like new coaches, or they don't get playing time. I don't tend to look at those situations as players not putting in work or lacking competitiveness, etc. I look at it as players want to play. Period. I might want them to stay and "compete" or "earn time" but that's just a selfish fan's perspective. The kid transfers out and hopefully finds his level and gets to play somewhere.
If a kid has bad habits or doesn't work hard or doesn't listen then that will shake out eventually, too.
My son was on a very good basketball team as the 6th man (I thought he was better than that, but whatever). He went through stretches where he hardly played at all. Eventually he asked if he could drop down to the B team just so that he could play and have fun. His request was denied, but he did wind up playing more and playing well. But the point is for a lot of kids they just want to get out there.
If a kid has bad habits or doesn't work hard or doesn't listen then that will shake out eventually, too.
My son was on a very good basketball team as the 6th man (I thought he was better than that, but whatever). He went through stretches where he hardly played at all. Eventually he asked if he could drop down to the B team just so that he could play and have fun. His request was denied, but he did wind up playing more and playing well. But the point is for a lot of kids they just want to get out there.
He hasn’t graduated yet. Tayven looked good this year. I think he could put up huge numbers in the next couple years.
IMO, it is F up to have the portal open in the MIDDLE of a season!
You are on a team, probably taken $$ so stick it out until after the season.
You are on a team, probably taken $$ so stick it out until after the season.
IU has a great receiver group. He’s buried on the depth chart. Wish him well
I'm sure he gets to keep what he's been paid. No clue if his deal is paid out in installments or one giant lump sum, but if it's the former I'm sure those have/will stop.
It doesn’t matter when the portal opens. He could have declared his intention to quit the team even if the portal wasn’t open yet. The problem here is the red shirt rule. You should not be allowed to quit on your team using the desire to maintain your redshirt eligibility as justification. It’s an easy fix.
Since reading the post I spent 12 seconds in front of a mirror and detected 0 disappointment.
Maybe that big 3☆ who just de-committed from PUke is in the crosshairs?
Maybe that big 3☆ who just de-committed from PUke is in the crosshairs?
The NCAA makes their money from basketball, and they don't care
much about football. jmo
Shows you just how talented our receiver room is when he could barely find his way on the field.
