JoePa denies QB's request to transfer

Totally disagree. He signed on to play. Things didn't go his way, so he's quitting. Sorry but there's a cost to signing your name on a de facto contract. This is actually a cheap cost to what could have been an incredibly expensive lesson. I have no problem with JoePa holding him to it.

Agree. I don't think this is a case of Joe not being classy. Of course we don't know all the details but if Joe Pa declined the request then the kid better learn to suck it up. Might as well learn now that you can't always just take your ball and go home.

Again, average Joe Fan will never know all the details. Joe Pa is a legend and I think a pretty classy guy. If he declined the transfer so be it.
 


I recall a junior who was a very highly touted recruit, began season as starter at QB and lost his spot midseason. Said player also had an overbearing father, which sounds like Mr. Bolden also fits that category.

OT Side note: Said former Iowa QB is currently the starting QB for the feared Dresden Monarchs of the German NFL......

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Joe Pa is fine on this one...Yes coaches can jump ship and so can players but each should have to be penalized. For coaches that is paying a fine for violating their contract. For players it is sitting out a year or paying their way for a year or moving down a division or whatever. In this case I believe the player just doesn't like that someone beat him out so I think Joe Pa is doing it correctly. On the other hand if you look at Jewel Hampton he is leaving because of injury and not because of something stupid like not being #1 because if that had been the case he wouldn't have tried to play this year. That is a difference in situation and a difference in how it is dealt with. I believe sometimes the Iowa coaches probably shouldn't allow the releases that they do.
 


Yes coaches can jump ship and so can players but each should have to be penalized. For coaches that is paying a fine for violating their contract. For players it is sitting out a year or paying their way for a year or moving down a division or whatever.

Since the College that recruited the coach away from his school probably pays the buyout I don't see this as being even. It would be even if a school recruited a player to transfer, paid the player's old school back for his tuition and brought him on board at the new school without having to sit out. Then it would be as scummy as how the coaches get to do it now. ;)
 


Think about how quickly some schools will turn on a coach too...Look at all the complaining that people like us do to these coaches. There is just as little loyalty the other way too. The players usually will not lose their scholarship for playing badly or losing their starting spot. But a QB that has a bad year could cost a coach his job. This stuff is all crappy, the kid needs to realize he signed up for something and put on his big boy pants and deal.
 


Joe Pa is fine on this one...Yes coaches can jump ship and so can players but each should have to be penalized. For coaches that is paying a fine for violating their contract. For players it is sitting out a year or paying their way for a year or moving down a division or whatever. In this case I believe the player just doesn't like that someone beat him out so I think Joe Pa is doing it correctly. On the other hand if you look at Jewel Hampton he is leaving because of injury and not because of something stupid like not being #1 because if that had been the case he wouldn't have tried to play this year. That is a difference in situation and a difference in how it is dealt with. I believe sometimes the Iowa coaches probably shouldn't allow the releases that they do.
Disagree. These aren't indentured servants. I don't think KF has ever refused to grant a player his release.
 


Think about how quickly some schools will turn on a coach too...Look at all the complaining that people like us do to these coaches. There is just as little loyalty the other way too. The players usually will not lose their scholarship for playing badly or losing their starting spot. But a QB that has a bad year could cost a coach his job. This stuff is all crappy, the kid needs to realize he signed up for something and put on his big boy pants and deal.

That's why the coaches get paid the big bucks. They get fired - ok, they still made half a mil - or way more.

And as far as losing scholarships for playing badly, just go ask some of those kids in the SEC if it happened to them. And by losing playing time and not being a starter they lose a huge chance to become better and maybe a shot at the NFL (or maybe they just really want to play). Therefore, they transfer. They go to a school who wants them to start and they begin the process again. I signed up for college at CSU, but did that mean I had to stay there? Nope. This guy signed up for PSU, they gave him a scholarship in hopes of him helping the team win (thus putting ppl in seats and money in pockets), and it didn't work out. Nothin' wrong with that. Happens all the time in every day life.
 


And in real life sometimes contracts come with stipulations that if you leave to join a competitor that you have to pay a price. In this situation the price is sit out a year. Which btw would be his red-shirt year so he would still have 3 years...wow the kid is really getting the short end of the stick. Just because Ferentz has never done it doesn't mean that it isn't ok. JoePa denying the request DOESN'T force him to stay...if he wants to go he can still go.
 




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