Was a Cat for three years ? Just never lived up to what many thought he would be in college.
Story by Matthew McGavic in Louisville Cardinals on SI.
Story by Matthew McGavic in Louisville Cardinals on SI.
U of L TE Izayah Cummings enters portal...
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I thought he might have a good ability to be a pass catching TE. Unfortunate for him and the teams he was with.
Why? We rarely use a TE anyway. Plus, he was recruited over at least 3 years ago. He perhaps could have been a decent weapon in Coen's offense but I don't see how he fits at all in Hamdan's. Seems like he was very much a 'tweener' and wasn't big enough or physical enough to be in-line TE nor was he quite fast/elusive enough to split out consistently. He wouldn't want to transfer here, imo, as it's unlikely he'd see much PT and even less likely to see a healthy number of targets. JMO
In 2022 and 2023 we were second in the SEC in yardage. Last year was not good. The narrative that we don’t use TE is completely false
That could be true (don't care enough to check). But we rotate multiple TEs throughout and one TE rarely sees more than 2-3 targets in a game unlike other teams who throw to one TE almost exclusively. Plus, we just plain don't run as many plays and don't throw more than about 50-55% of the plays we do run.
And, I would add, that we have needed the TEs to block due to the decline of the Big Blue Wall. Fixing the Oline will have a domino effect on the rest of the offense and even the defense, as more time of possession for the offense improves defensive effectiveness.
I don’t think it is, but people have developed a misunderstanding of how life works because of NIL/Portal. Like the college part of it has been forgotten, which is understandable. If a guy wants to enroll at another college and that college’s team wants the enrollee to play for them, it doesn’t matter if Wendy’s is open, or if Dick’s Sporting Goods is open, and it doesn’t matter if “the portal” is open. The portal is not some physical space that a player enters and waits around for someone to come pick them up on a bus to take them to their new destination. In this country students still have the freedom to go to any college that accepts them. Key word there is “still”, because that’s probably something to keep your eye on.
From what I understand you are correct, about the only thing the portal allows is legal contact from other schools. But tampering is at an all time high because opposing coaches backdoor to players telling them to hit the portal and get X amount of NIL to attend their school. A couple of ACC schools are making a name for themselves with all the tampering they are doing.
