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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

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NJ-Buckeye said:
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Three comments:

1) Looks like he would be a great player to get; he's has been a (very productive) 4 year starter for Okie State.
https://okstate.com/sports/football/roster/jarrick-bernard-converse/9591

2) I like seeing football players actually take advantage of the educational opportunities and major in something that has a definite career path, i.e. engineering, business, pre-vet, etc. If they even have one, an NFL career averages 3 (or so years); needless to say, life after football lasts a lot longer. Also, Real Life Wednesdays is one of the best non athletic programs for the athletes going.

Real Life Wednesday leads to real jobs, opportunities at Ohio State

Ohio State’s social media team makes sure the networking gets publicized, every single time.

Those tweets, Instagram photos or Facebook posts every time an Ohio State athlete lands a top-flight internship or gets to shadow at a prestigious local business? Those aren’t by accident.

That is testimony. College sports, far too regularly, tend to be a world where student-athletes give and universities get. Ohio State has been working to change that in recent years in a number of ways, but there is no better example of it than the Real Life Wednesday program spearheaded by Ryan Stamper, the Buckeyes Director of Player Development.

Stamper, who played football for Urban Meyer at Florida, has seen that life after football isn’t always the focus it should be around the country. But the culmination of Ohio State’s year-long series, which took place Friday evening at the Horseshoe with the sixth-annual job fair, showed exactly how seriously the program treats life away from the field.

Entire article: https://www.on3.com/teams/ohio-stat...ate-urban-meyer-real-life-wednesday-job-fair/

3) I worked with 2 different guys whose daughters wanted to be a veterinarian. Apparently acceptance at Ohio State's Vet school was more (or at least as) difficult as getting into Med school. They supposedly had good grades, good test scores, and good recommendations; but still got rejected the first time they applied. Persistence paid off, they took more classes got their grades/scores a little higher and finally got in though. Just wondering if "played football at Ohio State" on your resume/application would help you get accepted.
 
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Guess we know where Caleb Williams is landing...
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Report: Caleb Williams down to two potential transfer destinations
https://www.on3.com/news/report-okl...-trojans-head-coach-lincoln-riley-lsu-tigers/
One of the most highly sought-after transfers in the country is still available in Caleb Williams. The former Oklahoma Sooner has been linked with programs across the country but is taking his time making a decision, even with schools beginning to start classes.

According to a report, Williams has taken a step forward in a process, narrowing his destinations down to two. OKC-KWTV Sports Director Dean Blevins said “it’s down to USC-LSU” for the former On3 No. 1 overall player. Blevins said his source is somebody “with direct knowledge.” No sort of timeline was mentioned.

Williams ending up at USC would not be much of a surprise. He would be reuniting with head coach Lincoln Riley, who was the main reason Williams ended up at Oklahoma in the first place. Plenty of other Sooners have made the trek out west, becoming Trojans through the transfer portal.

USC has seen two quarterbacks leave the program through the transfer portal in Jaxson Dart and Kedon Slovis. If Los Angeles is not the destination for Williams, Riley would have a thin quarterback room heading into spring practice. Landing Williams is crucial toward Riley being able to accelerate the rebuild.

Coming out of high school, Williams put out a top three list of LSU, Maryland and Oklahoma before making his decision. The Tigers are a program the quarterback is familiar with, even though there is a new coaching staff in place.

Head coach Brian Kelly already has a loaded room but Williams is the type of player you sacrifice for. An On3 Consensus four-star quarterback is already en route to Baton Rouge in class of 2022 signee Walker Howard. Myles Brennan withdrew his name from the transfer portal, while Garrett Nussmeier will remain on campus.

If the report of LSU being a possibility for Williams is true, Kelly would have some magic to work within his quarterback room. Williams has two years of eligibility before heading to the 2024 NFL draft would have at least one, if not two, LSU quarterbacks looking for new homes.

In On3’s new transfer portal tracker, Williams is the No. 1 player to enter during the cycle. After being rated 98.08 coming out of high school, he is now rated a flat 98 as a transfer. According to the On3 RPM, there is a 99.5% chance Williams ends up picking the USC Trojans, while the UCLA Bruins have a slim 0.5%.
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"There's so much to change," a Power Five assistant coach told 247Sports. "I don't know where to start. You feel sorry for all these kids that won't get the chance to get a degree because they entered the portal with nowhere to go."

For every star quarterback like Caleb Williams, the nation's No. 1 recruit in 2021 now with his pick of the litter after leaving Oklahoma, there are three others left in the cold. Nearly three out of four Power Five players who entered the transfer portal during the 2019-20 cycle did not land at another Power Five program — and nearly half (47.2%) did not find a new home or fell to the FCS or a junior college, according to numbers compiled and studied by 247Sports. Only 37.8% of FBS scholarship players landed at another FBS school.
 
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