https://www.azcentral.com/story/spo...rds-warns-cuts-scholarship-players/483571002/
Cutting college players NFL style?
Cutting college players NFL style?
Doomed to fail: Edwards at ASU Devils (link)
- Thread starter Richard the LIONhearted
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Certainly goes on in Power 5 football, but coaches are smart enough not to publicly discuss it. He's always been kind of an odd duck.
You. Make. Cuts. To. Win. The. Game.
IMHO: A terrible hire that I honestly think will fail BIG TIME. I just can’t see him relating to teenage student-athletes or their parents.
Yeah, it was a bizarre hire - there were better out there when he was given the job.
Yes. But.You. Dont. Discuss. It. Publicly.
So, in our culture he is toast because he is honest (saying what he is doing).... While guys like Sabin are celebrated and worshipped for doing the same thing but not mentioning it. Says more about us than him.
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It'll be interesting whether the NCAA bothers to knock on the door if he actually tries to give cut players financial aid that aren't eligible due to career-ending injury/conditions.
Why would they? Check out paragraph two in this link.
http://www.nationalletter.org/documentLibrary/athleticScholarship.html
Interesting. I thought the one area where he would really excel was relating to their parents, the kids I'm not too sure about.
So the difference between him and all the SEC coaches is that he says exactly what he's doing. LOL.
Agree. At least he is being honest about it. This is happening all across college football. At least the kids can still keep their financial aid. Disagree about him not being able to relate to kids. If you've heard this guy talk I think he could sell water to a well.
My guess is that he was on the "list" for the purge at ESPN and took the first thing available.
That being said.
I always liked Herm Edwards, still do.
Please explain. The OP’s link has Edwards saying the cut kids would continue to get aid. He can’t give aid to an unlimited number of kids (if he were to cut a bunch), but the NCAA does permit some leeway for kids that have physical problems arise. The second paragraph in your link doesn’t speak to that.
I wonder how long until cases of Amyloidosis start showing up due to aggressively overworking his players all in the pursuit to "win"?
You need to read more. They can receive other aid. It is in the link, in plain and straightforward language.
(1) Yes, they can, but it can’t be tied to the football situation. He can’t arrange anything special for his performance discards, especially at scale. (2) You directed me to one specific paragraph. I assumed you knew what it said and didn’t say. That’s not on me.
On the end it doesn’t matter because he was just trying to motivate some kids. It isn’t going to happen at any scale.
I am not sure what you are trying to say here, but if a kid is injured, and cant play anymore, you can absolutely give him aid and not count against your 85 limit. They just cant come back and play for you again. It's called a medical scholarship.
Edwards didn't say he was cutting players that had career threatening injuries. He said he was cutting players that either (1) didn't put in the effort or (2) weren't good enough. He then went on to mistakenly say that even after he cut them that he would be a good guy and keep them on financial aid. What Edwards probably doesn't know and/or understand is that you cannot do that (cutting players and then essentially keeping them on another type of schollie) without having that cut player still count against the 85 schollie limit. That is the point.
Actually there is no such thing as a "medical scholarship." There is nothing that prevents a coach from dropping a kid from the team, for medical or any other reasons, and the university continuing to provide financial aid to that kid at whatever level it chooses.
