I believe the plan is to delay your military commitment, not eliminate it.
Still, I agree with you. Don't mess with it.
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'20 CO TE Kole Taylor (Signed to LSU)
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Still, I agree with you. Don't mess with it.
They are allowed to defer their service. They still must fulfill their obligation.
IIRC, David Robinson was able to play in the NBA while serving in the reserves. I seem to recall there was some kind of accommodation made so he could play immediately in the NBA. It required a special change to the regular rules, though.
Edit: I was mistaken. According to Wiki, he served two years in active duty before joining the Spurs.
Edit: I was mistaken. According to Wiki, he served two years in active duty before joining the Spurs.
This chat belongs in another thread but the policy is being changed even from last year.
Austin Cutting, Air Force Grad, and MN Vikings draft pick will be a "recruiting lieutenant" and active duty Airman while playing in the NFL this year.
https://www.dailynorseman.com/2019/...tment-concurrent-nfl-career-minnesota-vikings
This is what I have heard. They would be allowed to participate as professional athletes then fulfill their obligation at the end of their careers.
Still when you delay the service there are some issues. How many players finish a pro career healthy enough to serve at 100%? How out of date are they professionally after an athletic career?
I don't have a problem with what they have done in the past requiring a couple years of active service then an extended term on active reserves.
What we don't need though is cadets who are focused on pro sports careers instead of their military obligations.
Thanks.
I don't really want to debate it here, but I do question whether we should be messing with the mission of our academies. Training military officers is why they exist. Compromising that in any way in hopes it will lead to the Army-Navy game being between ranked teams doesn't seem right to me. I pretty much made my mind up on this one 30 years ago with David Robinson and the debate over him serving his 2-year commitment back then. (He did serve, even though he'd grown past the height limit for active duty by the time he was admitted to the academy and was well above it by the time he graduated. It was the right thing and he should have transferred out before incurring that commitment if he didn't want to serve as an officer after graduation.)
Chad Hennings who won the Outland Trophy while at the AFA served four years of active duty including flying 45 combat missions while stationed in the Persian Gulf. After that four years the Air Force underwent some cuts in budget and he was released from his final four years of active duty service instead serving another nine years on active reserve.
I agree though that the mission of the service academies should be highly focused on preparing the future leaders of our nations military without other distractions. Intercollegiate sports should exist only to the extent that they serve that mission.
By accepting the appointment to an academy and all the benefits that go with it giving up dreams of playing in the pros isn't an unreasonable expectation.
The Ogre
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It’s gone back and forth over the years. The Admiral owed the Navy more than two years, but served part of it in the reserves, iirc. Keenan Reynolds, an Annapolis grad, was drafted by the Ravens, went to the Redskins, and is now on Seattle’s practice squad. He’s in the reserves, but I’m not sure how his payback (five years of active service, usually) is to be worked out.
They’re trying to work out a deferment, and it doesn’t bother me too much if somebody is drafted is allowed to play whatever sport, then returns to fulfill their obligation. It’s bound to be a net positive in the vast majority of cases, imo.
They’re trying to work out a deferment, and it doesn’t bother me too much if somebody is drafted is allowed to play whatever sport, then returns to fulfill their obligation. It’s bound to be a net positive in the vast majority of cases, imo.
CPVbuff
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I guess we will see. I think they are very high on Otoole kid from NM and make him an H. And let Fauria be the the in-line TE. When you couple that with the JC kid. I think they pulled off Kole
But you are right the Other P5 offers for Kole are impressive.
They did not pull off Kole and will continue to recruit him. He was the first kid HCMT went after when he got here. This was a full press that we did not win. Not yet anyway. Either way, I hope the kid is happy wherever he ends up. Great player.
Other than him choosing another school, where are you getting they dropped Taylor?
CU is not in the position to turn away blue chips or borderline blue chips at any position.
CPVbuff
Calculating Probabilities in a Vacuum? Sounds like you're just making **** up.
Calculating Probabilities in a Vacuum? Sounds like you're just making **** up.
That's been the excuse for some since the beginning of time
Dorn09
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He is going there because he was sold the idea that LSU was going to start using the TE again. If LSU doesn't show a commitment to using the TE position I could see him opening it up late in the process.
ahoelsken
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Its a combo of that and the temperature of Ed Orgeron's seat-Malzahn has the hottest seat in the SEC, but Eddie O isn't far behind him.
With the recruiting class LSU is assembling, he will be off the hot seat pretty fast.
DrunkRalphie
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Recruiting classes are important but don't make up for bad coaching. Orgeron lived that at Ole Miss. Perhaps he has improved.
Read some of the comments from the late flips to UGA the past few years. One thing they all cited was the fact that UGA was relentless with the recruiting, even after they had verbally committed to other schools. I fully expect that MT has implemented the same process at CU, and that we'll continue to actively recruit every priority player right up until signing day.
Safe assumption that HCMT will continue doing what he was doing before since he saw it work year after year at Bama and UGA.
__IowaBUFF__
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I was hoping LSU offense would be as anemic as the last couple of years in hopes that he'd reconsider....seems like they have finally figured it out though.
ahoelsken
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Do the Saints have another wunderkind on that staff we could hire?
Once you have a great QB your team suddenly is in contention.
