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Thank youfrom Pennlive Bolds is leaving the program
Corey Bolds is leaving the Penn State football program
Per Rivals, Bolds had offers from Bama, Clemson, and Mecheatagain. Pretty impressive. There is definitely talent there.
This would all be much less distasteful - whether it happens at PSU, Alabama, or Memphis State - if the entire process wasn’t such a one-way street (from LOI day on)
The arguments for NOT allowing any of these kids to switch programs/Universities whenever they want (without restriction or penalty) are just lame, stupid, and self-important. IMO.
The arguments against allowing them to be paid “market rate” are equally fickle.
Good luck to the kid.
It seems to me that a scholarship should be a two way contract. The player is committed and so is the school. No giving a kid the boot because he was under performing and no player leaving because the grass is suddenly greener elsewhere.
One good thing about the requirement to sit a year is that it gives a young person a chance to focus on academics. Switching colleges has to cause some disruption in that respect.
JMO.
How do the people here talking about 'processing' kids know that he didnt go ask for the transfer?
None of those were real.Per Rivals, Bolds had offers from Bama, Clemson, and Mecheatagain. Pretty impressive. There is definitely talent there.
None of those were real.
None of those were real.
How do the people here talking about 'processing' kids know that he didnt go ask for the transfer? Kids are not stupid when it comes to their chances to play. He's been through a full year and knows whats there at his position plus potentially whats coming in at his spot.
These kids want to play, tough to get tape on him if he can't get on the field.
Franklin just said he sat down for half an hour with all 125 players the last week or so. I have to believe those aren't easy conversations with some. If JF kept it real, which I have no reason to believe he doesn't, perhaps he told Bolds where he stands on depth chart. Bolds took the information and did what he was best for himself. Or this or that or anything else, who really knows.
For Clarkston Mark, a closet or not so closet Wolverine fan to say every time a player transfers from PSU that he is being "processed", is speculative at best and uninformed. And before you say you are not a Wolverine fan, I live on the border of Clarkston and LO, basically everyone in C town is a Wolverine fan because your HS football team has the winged helmets and copy the UofM uniform, just like 90% in LO are Sparty fans because LO has green and white colors. Quite frankly, it all disgusts me as a true and blue PSU guy.
He commited on LOI day. IIRC there was some speculation about whether he would qualify. Obviously he did but wonder if this is a grade issue or ability issue
Either way. Wish him well
It's also a chicken or the egg debate here. We didn't sign 30 players like SEC teams do. We signed 23, that put us 2 over. Did Franklin know already that Martin had lost his love of football and that Bolds wasn't going to stay at PSU, whatever the reason. Maybe he did. Which means this isn't processing at all. Both what the process accusers in this thread are suggesting and what I just said are just as likely without internal knowledge of the situations.People can call it whatever they want - but when you sign more kids than you have room for, it is what it is.
That’s been a common practice throughout much of “big time football” (especially the SEC) for many years now.
Doing that - signing more than you have room for (whatever one wants to call it) - is considered by many to be a necessary step to maximize competitiveness.
The large majority of fans down in SEC-land have long felt “Who the F cares.... Just win baby”.... And, for better or worse, so it goes.
Whatever definition one wants to apply to the term “processing”, the definition of “hypocrisy” is much more well-established.
Yes. Sometimes you simply aren’t good enough. But the players know coming in that this is a possibility.Being processed means you've done everything asked of you on and off the field, but are still basically told to leave.
I won't get involved with your battle with Clarkston Mark, but none of us really know who has been "processed" and who has not, or even what it means. It's all speculation. However, in his defense, if Michigan does it, as well as OSU, Alabama, or anyone else, then who are we to hold other programs more accountable than our own? If we can say Michigan "processed" then we can should also be able to use that same term for PSU. Because the system is the same to develop a good team.
Because people are blinded by their fandom. We want to believe OUR school is better than that when in reality we aren't. You bring in all the guys you can, and some of those guys are going to end up being buried on the depth chart and "enouraged" to leave or "processed" or whatever term you want use that describes it being made clear that if they want to play they should probably look elsewhere. And they almost always do.
23 is "all the guys you can"?You bring in all the guys you can
It's also a chicken or the egg debate here. We didn't sign 30 players like SEC teams do. We signed 23, that put us 2 over. Did Franklin know already that Martin had lost his love of football and that Bolds wasn't going to stay at PSU, whatever the reason. Maybe he did. Which means this isn't processing at all. Both what the process accusers in this thread are suggesting and what I just said are just as likely without internal knowledge of the situations.
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LOL. My kids don't even go to Clarkston Schools, though I do live in Clarkston.Franklin just said he sat down for half an hour with all 125 players the last week or so. I have to believe those aren't easy conversations with some. If JF kept it real, which I have no reason to believe he doesn't, perhaps he told Bolds where he stands on depth chart. Bolds took the information and did what he was best for himself. Or this or that or anything else, who really knows.
For Clarkston Mark, a closet or not so closet Wolverine fan to say every time a player transfers from PSU that he is being "processed", is speculative at best and uninformed. And before you say you are not a Wolverine fan, I live on the border of Clarkston and LO, basically everyone in C town is a Wolverine fan because your HS football team has the winged helmets and copy the UofM uniform, just like 90% in LO are Sparty fans because LO has green and white colors. Quite frankly, it all disgusts me as a true and blue PSU guy.
And sometimes it's people wanting to feel important by acting like they know a whole lot more than they really do.
23 is "all the guys you can"?
That is where I get hung up on this. If you're gonna go the processing route full stop, why not bring in 25 or 28?
Also, we've only had, I think, one player sign an injury scholarship offer in the Franklin era. That is a staple of processing teams. So again, it doesn't really align with the picture some are painting. I am not saying we won't process or that we're above it. I am saying the facts don't squarely point to it the way some suggest.