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[QUOTE="OrangeBlood, post: 5405432, member: 1446"]
Tough to take but it’s where we are in college sports. Even the best of kids take the money, which it’s hard to blame them. Not many make NFL, and if you can get paid big big money (even more significant money than we were paying per sources), then i certainly understand it.

The other part to this is that we aren’t going to be very good next year. We are young and the schedule is brutal. Pena probably saw writing on wall during spring and realized it may be better for him to take payday and have change to compete for conference title.

Big picture on the field, I’m not sure this changes my view on next year. It would have been tough to get bowl eligibility even with him. Pena doesn’t alone win or lose us games. I like our other receivers. Given that we are going young next year to build for 2026, may not be bad to get a young slot in to work with RC this year and build chemistry for 2026 (assuming we can keep them).

More interesting to me is how Fran responds off the field. It has been the spring of Fran talking. A lot of positive press. Deserved too. However, losing a captain and possibly other significant contributors, with little coming in to replace, puts him in a tough spot to keep selling DART. I wonder how he responds. Will he still be all in on a north east private school school when the reality that we are a small market team subject to getting raided becomes ever clearer. My concern is that he starts to blame school/situation. That’s what Dino did at the end.

Early signs are that Fran is cancelling media availability to end spring and that he was worked up after practice last night … certainly some controversy is finding Fran in year 2.
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