'14 IL LB Nile Sykes (Indiana Transfer)

[TheChosen1]

Kid was a special teamer nothing more.

 

[rtrn2glory]

let's keep it classy

if joe schmidt can play meaningful snaps for us, anything is possible.

no offense to joe i love him

 

[GBdomer]

Kid was a special teamer nothing more.

I respect your honesty but I think he could have been more. Remeber he has only been playing LB for 1 year and he had I wanna say 12 sacks in his one year at LB.

 

[Sherm Sticky]

Kid was a special teamer nothing more.

Why trash the kid? By all accounts seem to be a great kid.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

I don't know who taught you sentence structure (or when you were taught for that matter), but I was taught a comma is used before a conjunction, not a semicolon.

Semicolons are hardly ever used; they typically only appear between two independent clauses that share a theme or idea that are not joined by a conjunction.

James Joyce, circa 1916. I change my error. I am so sorry I offended your sensibilities; "May I pour you a cranberry juice?"

 

[TheChosen1]

Why trash the kid? By all accounts seem to be a great kid.

With all due respect. How is that trashing the kid?

Mike Anello was one of my favorite players.

 

[dshans]

James Joyce, circa 1916. I change my error. I am so sorry I offended your sensibilities; "May I pour you a cranberry juice?"

I was tempted to mention Joyce, a respected IRISH writer, but I feared further fatuous fixations on my foppish fascination with faithful, fundamental foibles.

Síocháin, mo chara.



To (some) others: Fuck Alls Y'alls!!!

 

[stlnd01]

The reason for his departure can be both academics-related and yet "not compulsory," no?
Quite possible that somewhere between Signing Day and last week Sykes ran afoul of the Admissions Department (either through something he did/didn't do, miscommunication about requirements, an ACT score, senioritis, etc.), and then, when he learned of this, he chose to go elsewhere rather than sit out a year and get in compliance with our higher-than-NCAA-minimums standard.
Even at Notre Dame, academic problems are rarely one-strike-and-you're-out. So I find it hard to believe he was tossed over something that came up at the last minute. At the same time he may have been told he'd be sitting out this year, and had some remedial academic work to do - maybe even back home - looked at the situation and the depth chart, and made the business decision to go where he can play major college football.
Either way, it's too bad. But it sounds like he's landing in a good spot. Wish him well.

 

[TheTurningPoint]

He was on campus less than a month. I dont think anyone can judge whether or not how good or bad he was going to be at Notre Dame.

 

[Irish#1]

I am not saying this is what happend

But does anyone else think Nile just looked at the depth chart or the switch to the 4-3 defense and maybe just said this isn't for me? That is what others are suggesting but I am just wondering if it's not academics then could this be it?

Or maybe we just pulled a Bama and cut him.

No..........If that was the case I don't think he would have been given his release.

 

[texbender]

Hate to see any kid leave after such a short time on campus. Seemed like a good kid with lots of upside.
Hope he enjoys his time at IU and gets his degree.

 

[Irish YJ]

Good luck at IU Nile!
Hope you kill it for the Hoosiers and help IU's defense take it up a notch or two.
Please lay some wood a few QBs for old ND!!

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Good luck at IU Nile!
Hope you kill it for the Hoosiers and help IU's defense take it up a notch or two.
Please lay some wood a few QBs for old ND!!

(Gardner & Miller "wood" be a good start. Get it?)

 

[Irish YJ]

(Gardner & Miller "wood" be a good start. Get it?)

Hopefully the GH is taking a day off

 

[dyrtdogg]

Question for anybody who follows IU football: did Sykes get any time on the field this year or did he redshirt? He was one of my favorites from last year's class and I hated to see him go. Here's hoping he has a great career at Indiana.

 

[Irish#1]

Question for anybody who follows IU football: did Sykes get any time on the field this year or did he redshirt? He was one of my favorites from last year's class and I hated to see him go. Here's hoping he has a great career at Indiana.

Don't really know for sure. I listened to a couple of IU games this year while driving and never heard his name.

 

[notredomer23]

Redshirted.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Injury will cost Indiana’s second-leading sacker the entire season | CollegeFootballTalk

The 2017 season hasn’t even kicked off yet, but Indiana’s defensive line has already suffered a rather significant loss.

Head coach Tom Allen confirmed Tuesday that Nile Sykes will miss the entire 2017 season because of injury. The coach declined to delve into the specific nature of the injury, which the lineman suffered at some point during the team’s summer workouts.

“Just unfortunate part of the workout,” Allen said according to Rivals.com. “I hurt for him. He’s worked extremely hard.”

Last season as a redshirt sophomore, Sykes played in all 13 games for the Hoosiers. The 6-2, 250-pound end made his first career start in the regular-season finale, a two-point win over Purdue that gave IU bowl eligibility in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1990-91.

Sykes’ five sacks in 2016 were second on the team, while his seven tackles for loss were fourth.

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

Injury will cost Indiana’s second-leading sacker the entire season | CollegeFootballTalk

I wish him a speedy recovery and hope he finishes his career with a bang. We all know he wanted to be Irish but it wasn't in the cards.

 

[BobbyMac]

If he's back to full speed after last year's knee injury, look for a big year from Sykes. In a back up role during the '16 season the now 6-2/252lb DE had 18 tkls / 7 TFL / 5 Sks.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nile Sykes enters the season “bigger, faster and stronger.” And the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/iufb?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#iufb</a> pass rusher also comes in with a new mindset:<br><br>“Don’t take anything for granted.”<a href="https://t.co/uBdjq4lGSo">https://t.co/uBdjq4lGSo</a></p>— IndyStar Sports (@IndyStarSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/IndyStarSports/status/1029034851536658432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[beryirish]

He was on campus less than a month. I dont think anyone can judge whether or not how good or bad he was going to be at Notre Dame.

I like when old threads get bumped - let's you take a look at who was active back then.

Didn't realize it but appears the Turning Point is no longer. Last post was 3/17.

 

[ulukinatme]

I like when old threads get bumped - let's you take a look at who was active back then.

Didn't realize it but appears the Turning Point is no longer. Last post was 3/17.

Would be nice if he came back. Irish TP's site is down though, miss the Protect This House videos...excellent stuff.

 

[Huntr]

Anyone catch the interesting bit from the latest II pod(around the 24 minute mark). O'Malley confirmed the speculation in this thread that he was straight up cut before he even began his 1st year. @GBdomer had it right, he had no spot behind all those guys so staff told him he should transfer.

Pod was discussing the scholarship adjustment for this coming year and how ND is gonna be a little out of its comfort zone in telling guys, "welp, you gotta go."

 

[IRISHDODGER]

Yes. I did catch that. It does remind me of college baseball now. Coach does a cattle call in the fall semester & then calls them into office to tell them they can try to help them find a place to transfer to but they won’t be playing at their program.

 

[Katzenboyer]

Pod was discussing the scholarship adjustment for this coming year and how ND is gonna be a little out of its comfort zone in telling guys, "welp, you gotta go."

Can you clarify this a bit? I thought with the scholarship number jumping up to 105, ND could take more kids like Sykes, not less.

 

[dublinirish]

Can you clarify this a bit? I thought with the scholarship number jumping up to 105, ND could take more kids like Sykes, not less.

i think II believes there are walk-on's in the program who are worth more than some scholarship players and those scholarship players will the ones shown the door

 

[Huntr]

Can you clarify this a bit? I thought with the scholarship number jumping up to 105, ND could take more kids like Sykes, not less.

As you know, there will be no more walk-ons - everybody will be at least partially on scholarship. ND, and likely most programs, is not adding 20 full scholarships to their FB team. The will only be adding 10, according to Brice, and some of those awarded won't be full rides.

That doesn't mean all current scholarship players will still be on the team. There may be current walk-ons they want to put on full or give a partial to (often special teams players). So that means there are current players on the roster, scholarship and non-scholarship players, that will no longer be with the program soon.

The guys also said this year will be kind of an anomaly in that regard (maybe bleeding a bit into next year) but the roster numbers will eventually settle.

 

[GowerND11]

Because walk-ons will now count towards that hard and fast 105 now right?


So will we essentially will see the "death" of walk-ons with this new system maybe???

 

[brewdog_14527]

Other than the NCAA being the NCAA, is there any reason that they didn't taper this "cutting of players" over a few years? Seems like a lot of teams, not just ND, are about to go through this.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Because walk-ons will now count towards that hard and fast 105 now right?


So will we essentially will see the "death" of walk-ons with this new system maybe???

Basically yes. There have been quite a few articles out there talking about the potential death of the walk-on with the new rules. With the shrunken roster sizes, there will certainly be far less walk-on's regardless.