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Message: [QUOTE="CbusCuse, post: 5633808, member: 507"] I get what you are saying but its not like something happened at SU and he now doesn't want to be at SU. Nothing happened here on our end. He just now decided he may have what he considers a slightly better opportunity after the fact. There has to be a line of what you can let players do. Changing their mind after signing is one of them. There are still some rules in college football and that is one of them. You don't have players commit to a school and sign a binding contract. Then allow them to later change their mind when they see a slightly better thing that comes along. Programs can't operate that way. There are windows and opportunities when players can change their mind. This is not one of them. Smith clearly wanted to play for Syracuse a week and a half ago when he SIGNED his intent to do so and thought its a great opportunity. Nothing has changed on that front. I assume what he signed is binding like freshman commit papers. He can’t change his mind after that and just go to another school. That is the whole point of signing. SU doesn’t pursue any other TE’s at that point because they know he is now a part of the roster for 2026. And now at this point the pickings for TE's in the portal are very slim. So then SC didn’t get what they hoped they’d find in the portal at TE and at this point tried to smooth things over and bring him back in. How the heck does the fact that he already signed with SU not come up immediately by either party? That's just dumb on both of their parts. And maybe it did but they are now hoping they can leak some info and find a way to force SU to do so?? If SC wanted him back, maybe they should have worked on that say….any time in the past month and a half! Screw them. Syracuse is the only party who did nothing wrong in my opinion. Why should SU be the one who gets the short end of the stick in this situation and release him back to SC? Smith has to keep to his contract and play ball at SU. This is his doing and nothing Syracuse did wrong. He needs to be positive, make the most of it, hope he loves it and ball out. He's better off having Angeli passing to him at TE than Sellers anyway and he'll put up better numbers here in our offense. If he decides SU wasn't the perfect fit for him after the season he can leave for his Senior season next season. And reading the SC board and many of their fans complaining Fran would be doing something wrong in keeping him at SU and "holding him hostage" is just bogus BS. This situation just pisses me off. [/QUOTE]

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