Personally I’d let him go to Nebraska. He has one year separating him and the QB that had the best season in school history. I’d have to imagine UCF has a reason other than being petty losing a back up qb. Also we are taking 247 words as gospel and they are wrong a lot.
Dad works for Energy Transfer which, I believe, is a company formed from the Enron debacle. They do just fine I suppose.
If the Husker fans cannot see why UCF has the obligation to deny allowance of a transfer for all it's student athletes who want to transfer to Nebraska then I'm not going to try to explain it. That is simply a line than can not be crossed without opening Pandora's box. Happy for the kid, hope he enjoys playing at home.
What if we can see why UCF has the obligation to deny allowance of a transfer for all it’s [sic] student athletes who want to transfer to Nebraska? Then are you going to try to explain it?
so again as a resident Lebatard listener...they have been railing the past couple of days on UCF's academic side rejecting a fully ESPN paid week of content and on-campus celebration that would have happened on Friday for apparently no good reason.
in the last 2 months Nebraska has hired our head coach who in turn took our entire staff with him, announced the hire during one of our games, flooded our press conferences with media asking our players to transfer, claimed our bowl game as some kind of bowl game for husker nation just because you lent us your new coach and staff back while telling us how classy you are for doing that, and just generally patronizing our program because in Nebraska's eyes it is lesser then the mythical Nebraska juggernaut. now you're salty because we have the audacity to not just let our players transfer to your school. yep, I just don't know where we would have pulled that concept from
also, no we don't. Winning the bowl game softened it up a lot and the incredible job that Danny has done with PR since the win has taken our attention away from it, but don't misunderstand; we still think it was shitty how it all went down
what's the backstory there? Was that the thing where Lebatard wanted to come down and give us a trophy? He wanted to do his show from campus all week and we turned it down?
It's been building for weeks that there was potential that they would come on to campus to celebrate UCF as the National Champs. As UCF followed through and the story started to stick, they went to follow through with it. They created a trophy and printed over 4,000 shirts. Many of the shirts were downtown last night because of this... ESPN pitched a party on Friday on campus. Fully produced with Dan's show doing a remote. TO build it up, they would also include UCF vs. Alabama as a topic on their shows all week...UCF Athletics approved. The university did not. As Dan explains it, every challenge the university raised (Security for example) ESPN agreed to handle it because that's what they do. The University still said no even though UCF would not have to pay $1 for any of this. ...so the shirts were taken downtown last night and the concept is dead. Dan and his team have been railing on it for 2 days. They named names. I think they said Chad something. Someone close to Hitt's office.
I think it got too big and UCF had to pull back a little. I've read some opinions that the payoff money UCF gets from the CFP may have been at stake since technically UCF did agree to the current system. That's why Aresco and the other commissioners came out and said they don't want the playoff to expand and Aresco wouldn't even acknowledge UCF. The AAC hasn't put out shit about our claim at all. They aren't trying to rock the boat that delivers a 30 million dollar check every year.
I can't see that as true. Just feels weak and something that wouldn't be in the contract to contradict your place in the system. Plus remember it was the University, not athletics who owns the AAC relationship, who said no.
Part of cfb Part of cfb ESPN releasing it had nothing to do with us Not exactly what happened but you still won't find me defending that incident. Our media sucks all in good fun. Don't know what's wrong with supporting our coach in his bowl game. Seems like you're looking for reasons to be bent out of shape and finding ill intent where none exists. But I get it. Don't know why UCF feels the need to punish a 20 year old over it but whatever
It's easy to see both sides. I agree completely that in a system that is already stacked against the kids, they shouldn't be restricted. I also see why a program would let you transfer anywhere BUT the school that a coach was on the inside of your program recruiting to. It's as common as every non-compete clause any of have ever signed for any company (don't take clients with you). If I had to choose a side, I'm always siding with the kids...but I can see the issue and it's a common one in and outside of sports.
we aren't saying he can't go to Nebraska. He wants to go home to Nebraska, he wants to get an education at Nebraska; more power to him, I hope he does well. he will just have to wait a bit to join the team if that is what he wants to go back for
I think there is a misunderstanding for a few folks over what the "block" to Nebraska means. Vedral is going to transfer to Nebraska, be on the roster next year, and sit out the usual transfer year. The only thing "blocking" his transfer does is that it prohibits him from receiving an athletic scholarship for this upcoming season, which is why some folks had mentioned previously that his parents would have to foot the bill for a year of in-state tuition. After next year, he can get right back on scholarship. As far as whether it's a good or bad look for UCF doing it, I get that it doesn't look good, but you really can't set a precedent where you let a kid transfer to Nebraska knowing full well that there are probably a handful of other players who want to do exactly the same thing. I'd imagine you either let anyone do it, or nobody at all. It sucks for the kid in this one situation, but I don't begrudge UCF for taking that position for any and all transfers to Nebraska. The kid will be fine, nobody will care in a few weeks, and it sounds like the kid's dad has even come out and said that he gets it. I'm sure they're a little salty about it, but come on...if the roles were reversed you know damn well any school would do that.
He doesn’t have to wait to join the team. He just has to pay his own way. He can join as a walk on right away.
I would actually be okay with just letting Vedral go. But I can see both sides. UCF isn't trying to make their students' lives harder, they're trying to protect the program. Those kids adored Scott and if you asked them to be honest, I would bet a ton would say they wished they could continue playing under him. The prospect of paying for out of state tuition may be enough of a barrier for most kids on scholarship to stay put.
so last night everyone's saying how we'll be #1 in the wolfe poll things and the colley matrix, yet wolfe poll shows alabama as #1 over us and colley matrix hasn't been updated which i assume means it doesn't get updated post bowl season. am i wrong about this or was everyone else?
Cool, then there is no problem. He gets to go home, you get your backup QB, he has to sit out a year anyway, and we really aren’t disagreeing about anything. So I guess we can get back to a husker free UCF thread Now to bring back a classic Spoiler
Your fan base literally tagged Nebraska fans to discuss this. And you were the only one who was really being confrontational about it, the rest of the UCF fans seemed quite level headed. So I don’t think you can really play the why are you in our thread card in this case.
I fully beleive it was the university side because UCF’s legal and compliance departments are completely ridiculous. I was once told I couldn’t go speak to an elementary school classroom for career day because it could be considered an ethics violation...to talk to 9 year olds...about why STEM is important
To be fair, for whatever reason, people in Florida love to look for any stupid reason to sue the universities.
It was. He admitted as such and named names. Again Chad something. I don't remember the other but he said athletics was fully onboard because of course they are
Sounds like daddy made him go home https://nebraska.247sports.com/Bolt...d-out-Vedral-begins-life-in-Lincoln-113473673
Feel kinda bad for him. Lot of mes in there from daddy. Hope he gets to be his own man even being that close to home.
I haven't been paying attention to basketball at all but BJ is still out? His ankles are basically glass every year. Really sucks for him.
Yeah BJ is taking forever to heal. At the last game he didn't have any cast, boot or wrap and he was moving around fine, but he was not jumping or running, just walking around. After tonight we have a stretch of really tough games so maybe they are being safe to make sure he plays during that run?
Sounds like he's still out for UCONN, so hopefully he's back for Cincy or we really don't have much of a shot.