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Who gets credit for Harrell then? Also, you may want to revisit this article. https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2587478-how-record-setting-qb-with-video-game-numbers-finally-landed-fbs-offer.amp.html "Coach Littrell and Coach Harrell...out of all these coaches, they had faith in me to play at the next level," Fine said. "For them to take that shot on me, I'm forever in their debt. I'm going to continue working hard for them and for the University of North Texas." Hennesy has a good relationship with Littrell, and the two had been in contact about Fine and what he could bring to the program. Fine is hoping he can help turn around the culture at North Texas—similar to how he helped turn things around at Locust Grove. "I think I can learn a lot from Coach Harrell," Fine said. "He was so successful at Texas Tech running the Air Raid. I feel like he's the next big thing coming up with Coach Littrell. They are two of the best offensive-minded people in the country. "It's going to be a lot of fun learning from them. I'm going to be there soaking everything up and listening to everything they have to say." You’ll probably point to how he mentions learning from Harrell and how he will be the next big thing. Well, when you have WSU’s outside receiver’s coach coming to be your quarterbacks’ coach and OC, you can only point to his career as a player which any high school quarterback would want to emulate. The point is, Littrell had the relationship with the coach, Littrell had the scholarship to give, and Littrell is the one who convinced Harrell to come in the first place. Without Littrell there is no Mason Fine at North Texas and you can take that to the bank.

Main is reason, unless you've got a really big NIL budget you have to develop some freshmen. AState brought in a Colorado QB and turned my stomach listening to him on a podcast talking about how NIL was going to give him a nest egg to get married to his long-time girlfriend after the season. Knew we had thrown that money in a hole. When guys see the finish line and understand there's no NFL contract waiting, they are likely to want the cash and make sure they can still walk straight and add and subtract when football ends.

If we're talking about Davis and FAU, A 2 year bump in success is hardly history and tradition unless FAU spins off a couple decades of success from the May/Davis era... Which is, uh, unlikely.

Kentucky just had to back off a football player they really wanted because he didn't have enough transferrable hours. Both the NCAA and NAIA will dock you for taking a transfer who doesn't meet your requirements for regular transfers. It is the one place where athletes are treated exactly like other students. People whiz and moan about the higher NCAA admission standards for athletes. Out of 134 schools in FBS only about 5 will unconditionally admit a regular student who only meets the NCAA initial eligibility standard. Liberty, ULM, Jacksonville State, and I think Sam Houston. Not looked at Delaware. The NAIA has the right rule. If kid meets the standard applied for unconditional admission at your school, he's eligible. If he doesn't he's got to sit a year and pass like 24 hours with a 2.0 GPA or better.

The options are A) Take a transfer with experience that is surely as talented as a true freshman or B) Take a true freshman and watch him get plucked away if he is as talented as the transfer with experience that you opted not to take. Why not take the transfer QB that is toward the end of his college career that has a lesser likelihood of transferring out again.