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Message: [QUOTE="ImperialOrange, post: 5634053, member: 362"] So here are the options so far as I can tell A) This a nothing burger and Smith goes to SU as he intends. Plays a year or more, transfers after 1 year, or declares for the draft. B) Smith had "buyers remore" and decides he really wants to stay at USC. It is a big cultural shift after all for a southerner. Presumably contracts are football related and he could simply stay as a student albeit of no worth to the USC coaches and fanbase at that point. C) USC struck out on other TEs that they thought were better than Smith. At that point they circle back and begin tampering. "We actually will throw the ball to you now and we will pay you whatever it takes". They are SEC after all so money is of no object as pertains to football. They surely could have pitched that when he announced his intention to enter the portal but he's now exponentially more valuable to them. He never really wanted to leave but was shown the open door and walked through it. Now, if C, this is problematic on many levels. The tampering, the disregard for the players well being (except when convenient), the libelous part where he and/or his new school get drug for nothing of their own doing, and the precedent it sets moving forward. "Hey go sign somewhere else to secure a spot BUT we may comeback for you if our better options fall through". OKAY at that point his and all players contracts are useless. If they don't have to honor them, do the schools? From the Syracuse side, we stopped recruiting tight ends. All the players USC whiffed on are signed elsewhere (if signings mean something) and were left scrambling through fewer options that will likely cost more OR not have the same potential. Don't want a kid at Cuse if he doesn't want to be there BUT you almost have to hold him for a year where he will potentially be unmotivated prior to transferring out again. Now nobody wins but especially the player who USC could have taken home from the bar at 10pm but only noticed isn't there at 2am when the bar empies out and the other 4 they were trying to chat up left with others. It's a pathetic look from USC and shows zero concern for the players well being and undue drama for the new school he selected. IF true Syracuse pretty much has to sue right? Even if Smith begrudgingly honors his agreement and finds out he loves Cuse and balls out you can't put the rest of it back in the box because it'll happen again. [/QUOTE]

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