That looks totally safe to click on!
(but then again, I did just trust Jello Bear and his Mantiba Snow Cone explanation link - I should have known better!)
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'23 FL CB Cormani McClain (Signed to COLORADO)
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(but then again, I did just trust Jello Bear and his Mantiba Snow Cone explanation link - I should have known better!)
Good for Cormani. He is young, immature with a ton of natural talent. If he is not coddled at UF, maybe he grows up in college and becomes an outstanding player. He was not the right person to have in the Buffs locker room where culture and transformation are aligned with high expectations, no room for a guy to be hiding in the restroom during practice.
What about a storage shed? Asking for a friend in Celina.
Can we step back for a minute and realize that a five star top 25 talent in the country is having to walk on to a program? That's crazy. Whatever is out on him might be even worse than what we've heard.
The alarm sirens must be deafening
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5 Star one year 2 Star the next...
Maybe he wasn't hiding in the restroom. Coach Prime learned from Manning and told Cormani to stay there:
NCAA rules are as arcane as they come. If the NCAA actually had any backbone in enforcing them there would probably be some lawyers specializing in fighting about it and we would have more information.
I did a deep dive into this a couple years back and even then the information available was sketchy but showed how ridiculous the NCAA is.
BCS level schools are allowed up to 85 full football scholarships. Unlike lower divisions these scholarships cannot be divided over more than that number of players.
In addition they can have walk-on players. A limited number (don't remember the exact number) are designated as preferred walk-ons. Beyond that number a different set of rules apply.
The preferred walk-ons are allowed to participate in all organized team activities and have access to team support resources such as academic support, training staff, weight rooms, etc. and to participate in team activities such as meals etc. They are expected to pay for their tuition, books, fees, lodging, and any meals outside of structured team activities.
The non-PWO walk-ons are not allowed access to team resources and activities from the end of the season or bowl game until a specific date prior to the start of the next season. Usually this is a couple of weeks after the fall camp has started.
Now with NIL if a school and it's boosters wanted the scholarship limit could effectively be the 85 plus the PWO number since a booster could provide the walk-on player with the cost of tuition, etc. which would get paid to the school to cover those things that a walk-on would normally be expected to cover.
And no injury issues. Yep.
Hard to know what to believe. Seems like he needs a wise friend.
Probably but he has the kind of talent that makes coaches think he is worth working with, and that they can fix him.
A lot of high school kids show similar signs because at that level they are good enough to dominate even with bad habits.
And I've never heard anything to indicate that Cormani is a bad person, just that he continues to have bad work habits.
It’s pretty clear that he had no P4 scholarship options and it was worth it for UF to add him as a walk on, but this is the kind of thing that sends Cormani to Last Chance U JUCO to see if it’ll wake him up.
I'm thinking that UF got him some NIL money to walk on, he was still a big name in Florida after being a 5* HS player there, somebody stepped up with the $$.
If he isn't playing and isn't looking like he wants to do what is necessary that will end very quickly.
I'm thinking at this point that either he really doesn't want to be a football player (but keeps doing it because it is expected of him and he doesn't have any other identity to turn to) or more likely that @GawainBuff is right and that there is something going on in his mind that is getting in his way.
Either way unless something changes significantly going to JUCO isn't going to help him much either. He needs some help to work through his issues and get on track to what he wants to be, and in the end that might not be football but that is for him to figure out..
It could be as simple as immaturity.
Let's hope,
Which could be a part of what I mentioned earlier with him being good enough in high school that he didn't have to work at football, and not uncommon in some schools for an athlete that talented to be allowed to coast on everything else.
Starting to lean though towards something deeper that immaturity. If it was just that peer pressure from his teammates would likely turn it around.
He transferred to Florida not Miami.
Hopefully, whatever it is, he gets the help he needs. I've seen people too many times just flat blow their opportunities for one reason or another.
I’m sure he’s getting plenty of the help he needs. At some point a person has to take accountability.
Reportedly Kicked out of Florida
If he couldn't get it together under Prime odds weren't good for that to happen at Florida.
On his way to joining the long list of guys with wasted potential.