Mario better get all he can while he is playing college football. I don't see him being drafted. He may make some practice squad as an UFA but he isn't good enough for an NFL team to waste a pick on. RBs in the NFL have less and less value every year, only dumb teams are using valuable draft picks on RBs who aren't elite.
Mario to the portal
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Yeah, I made this point earlier too. That's why I can't blame him too much for chasing paper now. Might be his only chance to get it. Even if he "only" picks up another $50K, I would have killed to have an extra $50K sitting in my bank account when I graduated college. People don't put enough stock into how your start. How you start can dramatically alter the rest of your life.
Mario's not thinking this through. He's forgotten who his head coach is. If his NFL dreams don't pan out, he's gonna need a job. Whose gonna hire him? Finish out your career here and you can bet your bottom dollar he'd have a direct line to Beamer. Having that connection to get you plugged into the coaching world would be FAR more valuable than $50,000 or $100,000 in the bank today.
You are assuming he wants to play in the NFL and wants to coach? I'm sure you are right on the first one. Not so sure on the 2nd.
You are assuming this decision is viewed as burning bridges by Beamer. I'm not so sure it is.
It's a safe bet with a services management major, he's banking on the NFL or cracking into coaching as a backup plan.
Alternatively, were he to return to USC and finish out a career here, he'd have a job easily in Columbia.
His short-term decision has more long-term risk that short-term reward.
It may not be burning bridges, that's not Beamer's style. But you can be sure an SEC head coach is probably contacted daily, and multiple times a day, I'm sure, by contacts looking for help getting into coaching. You've got to prioritize and can't help them all. Any coach is gonna defer to help his guys first.
True. Or he may go to Memphis and be a big time player for them, not get drafted, and get rewarded with a nice position in the FedEx corp office.
May not be his desire to work at usc. Marcus is a good example of someone that wasn't really interested. I'm not suggesting your wrong just don't know what's in his head.
Marcus is a very different scenario. Marcus was an all-time South Carolina and USC legend and said that just eventually wore on him always have to be Marcus.
FWIW, Anderson posted his top 4 on Twitter and it included Cal along with the previously mentioned 3.
We can just agree to disagree I’m a players fan. If the gamecocks don’t poney up and they move on for money, good for them for trying to do what’s best for them. I don’t define it as ingratitude. They can still be grateful for the gamecocks giving them one year to improve themselves. In that case if he’s important we should pay up. It’s called roster management in 2023.
It's not that many of them are leaving, but how they're leaving. Juice completely took advantage of our program this season, which is indefensible from any way you look at it. I am irritated that Mario is leaving because we are in a P5 conference and we took a chance on a Division 2 player and he had a reasonably good year. Now he thinks he's too good for SC. I don't blame a guy trying to better himself, but it's not a good look.
I agree but I just can’t be mad at these young ppl making decisions either way it goes. They need to change a lot of these rules because the blue bloods are still going to rule this sport. The only teams that’s benefiting from this transfer rule are the blue bloods. The lower schools are using their resources to develop a young man that didn’t even get consider by these other schools and leaving the school that believed in them more than the blue bloods. It’s trash when you look at it that way.
I agree but I just can’t be mad at these young ppl making decisions either way it goes. They need to change a lot of these rules because the blue bloods are still going to rule this sport. The only teams that’s benefiting from this transfer rule are the blue bloods. The lower schools are using their resources to develop a young man that didn’t even get consider by these other schools and leaving the school that believed in them more than the blue bloods. It’s trash when you look at it that way.
I agree with you. Sometimes it’s okay to give you d ppl grace, because they’re still learning. Shane Beamer understand the game at this point and if someone leaves your program just wish them the best and move on to someone that wants to be here.
So am I but I also understand that these players are real people with real futures and do not look at the situation like a fan.
Former South Carolina running back Mario Anderson announced his top four schools on Monday, with Oklahoma, USC, Cal and Memphis making the cut.
I’m so over hearing about Mario. It sucks to lose that talent, but he is history and will probably even end up running against us.
I hope Beamer is out scouring the Country for a replacement.
I hope Beamer is out scouring the Country for a replacement.
