2025 Recruiting List

[jbjack]

Will you give players who opted to attend other universities a second chance to attend SDSU if they enter the portal?

To me, it's about where you get your degree. I don't bitch about the portal. I don't bitch about NIL. Its the world we live in and players are going to move, and we weren't going to be immune from that forever. In the end, players that want to come and get their degree here are Jackrabbits. This is college athletics after all. If you leave Brookings with a degree, you're taking something more than just a playing career with you. I know it seems like I'm splitting hairs here. But, and I don't know about the rest of you all, my time at and degree from SDSU mean a hell of a lot to me. The guys that are leaving without a degree, are telling me that they were here to be in the football room only. If a guy comes here to finish his playing career and obtain his degree from SDSU, he's a Jackrabbit in my book. If he leaves here without a degree, he can be whatever the hell he is in his new team room, a Wildcat, a Couger, whatever. I don't feel like the school owes him a thing.

[jbjack]

Justin was one I thought the Jacks would consider before he finally committed to Augie. This is all great, but now we are doing the same thing and offering kids who had made a commitment to a program at a lower level so are we any better?

I think there's a big difference between our new staff recruiting players who may or may not be committed elsewhere and our prior coaching staff pilfering our program for the benefit of their new team using our school resources before handing their resignations in.

[jakejc795]

To me, it's about where you get your degree. I don't bitch about the portal. I don't bitch about NIL. Its the world we live in and players are going to move, and we weren't going to be immune from that forever. In the end, players that want to come and get their degree here are Jackrabbits. This is college athletics after all. If you leave Brookings with a degree, you're taking something more than just a playing career with you. I know it seems like I'm splitting hairs here. But, and I don't know about the rest of you all, my time at and degree from SDSU mean a hell of a lot to me. The guys that are leaving without a degree, are telling me that they were here to be in the football room only. If a guy comes here to finish his playing career and obtain his degree from SDSU, he's a Jackrabbit in my book. If he leaves here without a degree, he can be whatever the hell he is in his new team room, a Wildcat, a Couger, whatever. I don't feel like the school owes him a thing.

Sorry, not comfortable with that metric because it potentially excludes folks like Oladokun, and Tucker Large could've earned a degree given his redshirt year

[jakejc795]

I think there's a big difference between our new staff recruiting players who may or may not be committed elsewhere and our prior coaching staff pilfering our program for the benefit of their new team using our school resources before handing their resignations in.

This is one of my primary points of frustration, given the suspect ethics

[mnjackrbt]

Sorry, not comfortable with that metric because it potentially excludes folks like Oladokun, and Tucker Large could've earned a degree given his redshirt year

If you graduated from SDSU, took the field on Senior Day, or are using a legit Grad Transfer reason for going to a new school, or are actually good enough to forego eligibility and enter the NFL early, couldn't finish a career due to injury, things like that - then IMO, you are a an SDSU alum or an SDSU football alum, whether you spent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 years here at SDSU. If you left eligibility and/or a degree on the table to go and play for a new school, then you are an alum of that next school.

Oladokun is an alum IMO. Idk if he actually graduated from SDSU or not, but he played in a game on senior day and then I am assuming left school to spend the spring preparing for the once in a lifetime opportunity to play in the NFL. Large is not and will not be an SDSU alum, unless he graduated from SDSU and is enrolling in grad school at WSU.