Could Crist end up at Stanford

[Section25Row45]

With Polian as Recruiting Coordinator.... he knows Crist..... and Luck is gone..... could Crist find a grad program at Stanford?

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

Interesting point, seems like it would be a good move for Crist- undergrad from ND and work on a Masters from Stanford- impressive.

Current QB depth chart that is posted:
Brett Nottingham ...... 6-4 215 So.-Fr.
-or- 13 Robbie Picazo ........... 6-3 205 Jr.-So.
6 Josh Nunes .............. 6-4 208 Jr.-So.

 

[jason_h537]

There were rumors that he would go to Tennessee. Douubt that is the case, or that he has even started looking at where he will go yet.

I honestly thinks he comes home and is a Bruin next year. They are a QB away from being a pretty good team.

 

[OlympiaIrishFan]

Crist nothing but class!!! He is a great kid, good leader. Just didn't fit Bk's offense.

Good luck to him, I would love him to finish with the Irish! Love him being part of the family. But, can totally understand if he chose to leave with his diploma and go somewhere he can get a fair shake.

Good luck to him.

 

[Section25Row45]

Tennessee? Thought the SEC passed that Mazoli rule.... where, you can't come in for that 5th year into a grad program and avoid sitting out the one transfer year?

 

[4irishnation]

Crist nothing but class!!! He is a great kid, good leader. Just didn't fit Bk's offense.

I thought he fit way better than Tommy ever did. He just couldn't keep from making the big mistake at the worst possible time. Agreed thought he handled himself with nothing but class, wish it would have worked out for him.

 

[bert2834]

It would really suck if he went to a team that we played and then beat us.

But good luck to him in all his future endeavors. Kid is all class. Really wished it would have worked out for him.

 

[PatsandBostonfan1975]

Good Kid I just think a witch or something cursed him though. He is just unlucky at like everything. Hope does get one more chance though.

 

[Irish Man3]

It would be a mistake for him to go to Tennessee if he's looking for playing time. Bray is the starting quarterback, end of story.

I could see the UCLA deal happening. If it's going to happen UCLA would be great if he can come out and beat USC at the end of next year.

 

[IrishAlum1997]

It would be a mistake for him to go to Tennessee if he's looking for playing time. Bray is the starting quarterback, end of story.

I could see the UCLA deal happening. If it's going to happen UCLA would be great if he can come out and beat USC at the end of next year.

I would be a closet UCLA fan to see that happen.

 

[Grahambo]

I really hope he goes to another program and tears it up. I am really rooting for him and I do not care at what program. This is me pulling for Crist the person to become successful. He has shown nothing but class and has just been hit with some seriously bad luck.

There is a time when you put aside team affiliations and just root for someone and this is that time.

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

I really hope he goes to another program and tears it up. I am really rooting for him and I do not care at what program. This is me pulling for Crist the person to become successful. He has shown nothing but class and has just been hit with some seriously bad luck.

There is a time when you put aside team affiliations and just root for someone and this is that time.

this ^

 

[IrishinSyria]

I really hope he goes to another program and tears it up. I am really rooting for him and I do not care at what program. This is me pulling for Crist the person to become successful. He has shown nothing but class and has just been hit with some seriously bad luck.

There is a time when you put aside team affiliations and just root for someone and this is that time.

+2

Not sure if I'd root for Stanford when they played us if he goes there- but I'd definitely be rooting for an 11-1 season and a 3 TD 24 for 32 effort in a heroic loss to the #1 rated Irish.

 

[Grahambo]

+2

Not sure if I'd root for Stanford when they played us if he goes there- but I'd definitely be rooting for an 11-1 season and a 3 TD 24 for 32 effort in a heroic loss to the #1 rated Irish.

If he goes to any team that plays us, we better win, that goes without saying. Here's to hoping he goes to UCLA and wins the Pac-12 with an epic performance against USC.

 

[tko]

this ^

what about New Mexico? bob davie could get a quality QB right out of the gate.

 

[NDinL.A.]

I personally don't see it happening, if only because they are very high on Nottingham.

But stranger things have happened.

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

what about New Mexico? bob davie could get a quality QB right out of the gate.

Great idea...he would start from day 1.

 

[phgreek]

It would really suck if he went to a team that we played and then beat us.

But good luck to him in all his future endeavors. Kid is all class. Really wished it would have worked out for him.

...wouldn't be the first time...

I wish him the best...I can't imagine the ups and downs the kid has endured. I am sad for him

I think he can play, but he needs to go where there is no doubt he is the man so he can focus. If he gets the normal warmups the conferences schedule...and gets his MOJO, he could be deadly. I still think Tommy was the right move, but our receivers helped usher Crist to the bench in the So. FL game...they all played like 90 y/o women with osteoperosis in their hands...

 

[returnofthemack]

Dayne's a business major. If he goes anywhere but Stanford, I will root for him to win every game. If he goes to Stanford, I will root for him to go 11-1.

 

[LOVEMYIRISH]

It would really suck if he went to a team that we played and then beat us.

Someone say my name?

 

[aubeirish]

I would love for Dayne to get a second chance somewhere. He deserves it. Great kid.

 

[DANsanity15]

I think he'd be a good fit at UCLA or even Wisconsin. But I've been a big Crist fan forever, i hope he does well wherever he goes

 

[pumpdog20]

Like the great Tom Brands says "he doesn't deserve anything, he has to earn it." Crist has been a great teammate and all but he couldn't unseat Tommy Rees, who many on here think is horrible. I just don't see Crist going to another school and ripping it up.

 

[kmoose]

what about New Mexico? bob davie could get a quality QB right out of the gate.

I have a hard time believing that there would be a graduate program that would interest Crist at New Mexico, that they don't offer at ND.

 

[irishfan]

Wonder if Weis will give him a call. Their offense can't get any worse.

 

[NDFANnSouthWest]

I have a hard time believing that there would be a graduate program that would interest Crist at New Mexico, that they don't offer at ND.

One of the better Med schools in the nation (however i believe he is a business major). And a pretty good Business school. However, I do agree highly unlikely.

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TKO is razzing me about Davie to NM- in all good fun.

 

[Section25Row45]

SEC sends wrong message with grad-exception ban

Published: Monday, June 06, 2011, 5:30 AM Updated: Monday, June 06, 2011, 9:48 AM

By Jon Solomon -- The Birmingham News
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Jeremiah Masoli's transfer from Oregon to Ole Miss probably caused the SEC to make this new rule change.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Entering last week, four proposals were tied to the SEC's quest of better controlling oversigning in football. A fifth one oddly attached itself to the hot-button topic when SEC Commissioner Mike Slive announced new policies last Friday.

Call it the Jeremiah Masoli rule.

The SEC ended its graduate-student exception allowing players who have graduated to transfer into an SEC school and play their final season of eligibility immediately.

The SEC wants out of the free-agent business. Unless, of course, free-agency serves its competitive interests, such as one-and-done basketball players or junior-college football players who quickly join the NFL.

Never mind that the students granted rare flexibility by the NCAA to immediately play elsewhere have graduated.



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The powers-that-be in college sports tell us until they're blue in the face that graduation is the goal. Education is the very reason the NCAA and its members can avoid paying taxes on all of their money.

"We're not interested in athletes coming for the purpose of one year and then moving on," Slive said last week.

Really? The SEC has managed to send the message it covets one-and-done basketball players on the front end who don't graduate, but despises one-and-done athletes on the back end carrying a diploma.

Coaches change jobs whenever they want without penalties. Yet athletes, placed on one-year renewable scholarships, are bound by transfer rules to sit out a year and often are restricted on where they can go.

So what if graduated students gained a little flexibility? It was long past time some type of athlete did.

The NCAA graduate-transfer rule, which was controversially passed in 2006, isn't without faults. Ole Miss' embarrassing acceptance last summer of Masoli, the former Oregon quarterback, probably cemented this change by the SEC.

Masoli graduated from Oregon but got kicked off the team. Ole Miss enrolled Masoli in a Parks and Recreation graduate program not offered at Oregon. Even the NCAA didn't buy it, initially denying a waiver of its one-year residency requirement because it was for academic reasons, not avoiding discipline at a previous school.

The Rebels won their appeal, so Masoli got to be a 56-percent passer with one more touchdown than interception. Ole Miss went 4-8.

Some advantage for Houston Nutt.

It was a sham of a waiver for Masoli, who only stayed one semester before leaving to train for the NFL. So stop accepting transfers of previously-arrested players kicked off their old team, not players who have graduated.

The diploma wasn't the problem with Masoli. This is like hitting a fly with a sledgehammer.

There were about six or seven athletes in the SEC who took advantage of the graduate-transfer rule last year, SEC Associate Commissioner Greg Sankey said. Because the rule won't go into effect until October, free-agent quarterback Russell Wilson could still play at Auburn in 2011.

Graduate-student free agency never sat well with the SEC, which initially voted against it in 2006. Many people in the SEC, including Slive, felt the rule wasn't in their best interests.

"We'd like for everybody else to have our rule," Slive said in 2006 of the SEC's policy then -- and soon-to-be again -- requiring athletes to have at least two years of eligibility left to transfer into the league.

The SEC envisioned graduated athletes being recruited away. But the mass exodus hasn't happened, and the SEC was willing to join others around the country in cherry-picking graduated athletes.

Thankfully, the SEC isn't interested in convincing the rest of the country to use its rule this time.

"This is a local rule," said Sankey, whose office will return to using the SEC's waiver process to consider admitting transfers with one year of eligibility left. "We're not trying to dictate how many years of eligibility you need to go to some other conference."

Instead, the SEC abolished a rule it never liked by sliding it into well-intentioned oversigning policies.

One-and-done players without degrees on the front end? No problem. One-and-done players with diplomas on the back end? No way.

What a horrible message to send.

 

[kmoose]

One of the better Med schools in the nation (however i believe he is a business major). And a pretty good Business school. However, I do agree highly unlikely.

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TKO is kicking is razzing me about Davie to NM- in all good fun.

All in good fun, agreed. But the point is: If Crist doesn't transfer into a graduate program that ND doesn't offer, then he has to sit out a year. If ND doesn't offer the same program, then he can play immediately, ala Russel Wilson at Wisconsin

 

[jason_h537]

The SEC is a joke. They are the perfect example of why college athletes should be paid, and I am not even one who thinks they should. They oversign, cut players, take transfers, but gid forbid someone walks in with a degree.

But who cares SEC Football baby WHOOOOOOO

 

[returnofthemack]

Wonder if Weis will give him a call. Their offense can't get any worse.

I totally forgot about Florida. Now that they run a pro-style offense, and with all the top-notch athletes around him, he could do well there.