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thx for returning. I think we are going to need more than him on D line to be effective at stopping other teams

not a Christian miller comment. But something Connor wrote He mention losing the last game. And it dawned on me that with the expanded playoff. A below average season would leave you out of the playoffs and we would be bummed. And now with 12 maybe more in future playoffs. If it’s not winning a natty, the last game will be a loss.

@jdatl3 Meh. The NIL and transfer portal aren't as big a change as scholarship restrictions and Prop 48. Went from being able to carry almost 200 guys who could barely read and write to 85 kids who have to make satisfactory academic progress to keep their scholarships.

Good news: starting in 2025, teams will go back to the old 1978 limit of 105 players, as well as go up from a 25 scholarship max to 30. That's very bad news for Group of 5 and FCS schools, but it will mitigate the transfer portal and NIL issues for the programs that learn how to rely more on very good college players as opposed to kids who are using the NCAA as an NFL minor league. That is what Notre Dame is doing right now under Marcus Freeman for both high school recruits and transfer portal kids. From watching them on TV, lots of their portal kids in particular came from similar private schools i.e. Duke, Miami, Stanford or other ACC schools like Clemson and had mediocre stats, which meant that they know that they aren't going to the NFL. So they transferred to Notre Dame to get master's degrees to set themselves up for $200k salaries in corporate America after they are done with college football. In the past, Notre Dame had a limit to the number of kids that they could carry on scholarship because tuition there is so expensive - they were nowhere near 85 - but now NIL is taking care of that. They'll be able to fill up their 105 slots with 21-23 year olds raided from their ACC brethren (which now include SMU, Stanford and Cal in addition to Duke, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech and Miami) plus other "nerd schools" Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Purdue, Baylor etc. easily. They are ahead of a game that UGA is going to have to quickly learn how to play.

Rusty Mansell said Wilson wanted to lineup as a D-end, stick his hand in the ground and just rush the passer, didn't want to play in space. WHy couldn't we work with him? Of course you know money is usually the main thing.