South Carolina linebacker Pup Howard entering transfer portal
After one season in Columbia, linebacker Grayson "Pup" Howard is leaving South Carolina and entering the NCAA transfer portal.
South Carolina LB Pup Howard entering transfer portal
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lol. Can’t even begin to invest emotionally or financially in this sort of game any longer.
Screw this kid. Described as the kind of guy that would “die” for this university. All talk. Hope it works out miserably for him.
And screw the current state of college football.
Hopefully we’re at least getting all the cancer out of this program.
And screw the current state of college football.
Hopefully we’re at least getting all the cancer out of this program.
Exactly. This is exactly what I've been saying for over a year now. This crap is going to end up costing much more than it's making these kids in the long run. The conferences, the schools, or somebody better step in and make some adjustments before they lose everything.
First adjustment: Transfer and you have to sit out a year. That would fix 90% of it.
When losing to Clemson hardly even bothered me, I know something's wrong. Hell I broke my foot one time because we lost to Clemson (2000).
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You know, I'm becoming inured to all this. I don't care anymore.
NIL alone presents challenges. The transfer portal alone presents challenges. The two together are a nightmare. The colleges and universities that invest time and resources in these players are owed something.....
Nah. So much $$ for TV. Big programs are going to spend. The contenders’ fans will never stop going. They are fine. We’re just the kind of program caught in the middle. We don’t push the needle. If our fans stop going / caring…our team eventually will become even more irrelevant and eventually just be replaced by a fanbase / team that has hope.
I have no hope left. I don’t even blame Beamer. This kid is evidence there isn’t much a coach can do to keep these punks. F*** it. I can be done with this.
Perhaps he grew out of his position and became a tweener? Became a step slower and a little less athletic?
Nothing to be concerned about. I was assured in the Stone thread that we had nothing to worry about.
Stone is not a legitimate starting LB in the SEC, and he played more than Pup. Let’s see how it shakes out in the portal before panicking. Stewart also just said in an interview they plan on using him at edge and LB. Maybe Pup saw the writing on the wall.
Also, I’m not sure why a Clem fan would be worried to begin with??
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LOLSouth Carolina linebacker Pup Howard entering transfer portal
After one season in Columbia, linebacker Grayson "Pup" Howard is leaving South Carolina and entering the NCAA transfer portal.www.on3.com
Is there a running list of the number of players lost through the portal by team? I suspect we are easily in the Top 10.
What percent chance is there that there was no tampering here? Is it purely coincidence that he decides to enter the portal the day before it closes?
It's a harsh lesson on the new realities of college football. Have to start talking about these guys like professional players. Speak about their skill and level of play, and that's it. You simply can't talk about players who love the team or program any longer.
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Homesick ? It's a 4 hour drive. He's going to have to do better than that.
We're just exchanging cancers at this point.
I heard he's transferring to be closer to his auntie who has arthritis and can't travel well.
IDK. Doesn't sound like it's NIL related. I don't know who would tamper with a reserve LB with 18 tackles. Can't see that being an issue. Who knows. Could be some kind of health issue?
I thought we may see this after these kids went home for the holidays and had more people in their ear. Kinda shocked it was only 2 based on everything else. Back in the old days, a kid went home and felt homesick and was told to tough it out and not quit on your team and teammates. Now, they just quit. I get it, its not the entire team. Some kids still have this respect for them and their team, but its disgusting to see the others quit. Of course, as mentioned, those "quitters" that can make us better are more than welcomed here! Such a double edged sword and a mess. Best of luck to the coaches.
I think the main kick in the nuts with Howard is that he publicly professed himself to be Gamecock through and through until death. His words. And his head coach went and bragged on him being sold out as a Gamecock for life.
Gamecock until death added up to one year with the program.
I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that the general ills of society are spilling over into college football. Though much of it was illusory, there was a sense in which college football seemed immune to a lot of societal issues and was sort of a haven. It provided an escape. Once fall arrived, you could immerse yourself into college football and at least for a bit all seemed right with the world.
THere are a lot of people who say in front of family and friends "TIll Death Do Us Part". I'm not going to get worked up because some 18 old said the same thing and backtracked.
We certainly all understand that a college football player deciding to change schools is not on the same magnitude of a marriage splitting up. Nothing novel in that observation.
We certainly all also understand the discussions here are all in the context of sports and should be taken that way. Does any of this matter at all on the bigger scale of my life as a whole? Absolutely not. Sports is a drop in the bucket of my life. But for that drop, it sucks.
I'm reminded of the Juice conversations. We were looking for him to have a large impact even though he didn't play much this year. Then we said it wasn't a big loss, because he didn't play much this year.
I suppose I'm just tired of trying to tell myself that each of these players leaving were not really needed anyway.
This open portal needs fixing.
I suppose I'm just tired of trying to tell myself that each of these players leaving were not really needed anyway.
This open portal needs fixing.
I was one of the ones who noted that about Juice, mostly just to say we weren't actually losing any production from this year's team. In that respect, it wasn't a loss since we didn't technically have to replace any production. Obviously, he would have been a major contributor though.
The narrative on Howard shifted dramatically...overnight. By all accounts he was expected to a take a step forward and be a key contributor in the future. Now he was an underperforming true freshman.