QB Jackson Kollock will enter the portal.

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50PoundHead said:
Kollock should be second in that series. We don't have any idea how Kollock fared leading the scout team, but I have to believe his ceiling is higher than the Shikenjanski's, Merdinger's, and Wittke's.
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Kollock might have the higher ceiling, but I don’t think that’s clearly the case. I wouldn’t sleep on Merdinger, he had some good offers out of high school, played at a strong high school program, and he did throw for 350 yards in his one start for Liberty.
 


I wonder if we'll start seeing guys like Kollock sometimes go to a lower level for their freshman year to get playing time instead of going to a P4 to almost certainly sit for a year or two. They're talented but aren't the top end guys that can compete for the starting sport right away.

The downfall is you lose a year of eligibility then. But with the change to 9 games for a redshirt, could you see guys even try to go places with an agreement they will only play 9 games to preserve their redshirt year? So a guy like Kollock goes to a place like Campbell to get experience and then transfers to a bigger program after the redshirt year. Seems unlikely but with how things have gone the past few years, you never know.
 


GophersInIowa said:
I wonder if we'll start seeing guys like Kollock sometimes go to a lower level for their freshman year to get playing time instead of going to a P4 to almost certainly sit for a year or two. They're talented but aren't the top end guys that can compete for the starting sport right away.

The downfall is you lose a year of eligibility then. But with the change to 9 games for a redshirt, could you see guys even try to go places with an agreement they will only play 9 games to preserve their redshirt year? So a guy like Kollock goes to a place like Campbell to get experience and then transfers to a bigger program after the redshirt year. Seems unlikely but with how things have gone the past few years, you never know.
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I think you're pretty close to what could happen. The only thing in your post I'd disagree with would be agreeing to redshirt. If you start out 9-0 and then tell your teammates you're done for the season so you can portal up...I just see that being a mess.

However, I could see playing at a lower school and preserving your redshirt so that if you portal up to a bad situation, you use your redshirt on that season and then you leave again.

It would kinda cement a certain level of A, AA, AAA like you have in minor league baseball. Those "A" teams would get much better high school talent, but they know they'd only be there 1-2 years.

My $0.02.
 

GopherTheJugular said:
I think you're pretty close to what could happen. The only thing in your post I'd disagree with would be agreeing to redshirt. If you start out 9-0 and then tell your teammates you're done for the season so you can portal up...I just see that being a mess.

However, I could see playing at a lower school and preserving your redshirt so that if you portal up to a bad situation, you use your redshirt on that season and then you leave again.

It would kinda cement a certain level of A, AA, AAA like you have in minor league baseball. Those "A" teams would get much better high school talent, but they know they'd only be there 1-2 years.

My $0.02.
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It's already kinda a mess if we're being honest. I'm not suggesting it should happen but would just not be surprised if it did. I'm not sure a good program at a lower level would agree to it to begin with so a 9-0 start or whatever would seem unlikely.

The easy solution is to just get rid of redshirts and make it 5 years regardless of how much or little you play.
 

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