Scott I always appreciate you making points like this and being honest with your opinion. It means a lot as a viewer of yours. Takes like these are not easy to publicly make like this and not being scared to do it is why I love your content. Honest and real.

Cam McCormick announced he’s coming back for his 9th year a couple hours ago. For reference, Rashan Gary (#1 player in the same recruiting class) has been able to go thru 3 years of college, a whole rookie contract with a 5th year option, and just signed a 4 year contract this past October

Tauila got declined on his eligibility. Great video though I agree with you on players staying to long

Nah this is crazy, college football equivalent of get ready to learn Chinese

My oldest son received an extra year~ along with his redshirt season. He redshirted, unfortunately due to injury and switched positions. He stuck it out at that school (D2 ) Graduated and was accepted into dental school. The extra year afforded him an opportunity to pursue his NFL dream ~ he transferred to a D-1 school. Safety/DB good size decent speed, very physical, high football IQ from once being a QB. He gained the additional year because of Covid. He just didn’t keep transferring to better his options. Already accepted into dental school ~ this one year is like a bonus… like a HS player who spends a year in prep.

Every one of these QBs should be reclassified as “Tommy Boys” instead of seniors. Also Taulia just got denied for an extra year and has declared for the NFL Draft.

L take on Cam Rising. He only played in ‘21-22. The other years he redshirted (freshman at UT, forced to sit out after transferring to Utah, and injured for ‘20 and ‘23). He had to medical redshirt this year because in the rose bowl he tore all the ligaments in his knee and the surgeon wasn’t happy with the recovery and never cleared him. So yes, Cam’s been in college a good while but he isn’t abusing the system like some other guys on this list.

McCormick, the tight end for Miami is currently on his NINTH YEAR OF ELIGIBILITY. Truly insane and exposing how Wild West college football truly is nowadays

Am I the only one who is tired of players getting magical eligibility and playing for 7 years? I can't be the only one. Not trying to be too hard on these players because they are just taking advantage of a stupid rule, but still, its annoying 🤣🤣🤣 or maybe i'm reaching on this one?

The problem is the unregulated NIL deals. Caleb Williams said it himself, why go to the league if you can make millions playing in college? Especially if they keep allowing these players more than 4 years of eligibility.

These homies gotta move on to the XFL

I agree, I’m sick of players getting extra eligibility. They are definitely hurting chances of guys who were on the bench not getting their chance because of some transfer who has been playing for 4/5 years. These guys need to go to the NFL or get a job and pursue a new career.

I completely disagree with your opinion. Why shouldn't guys be playing at age 24 or 25? If it was such an advantage, you'd see every Alabama commit taking a year off between HS and college or serving a mormon mission or something like that. There is no reason to have a problem with older guys getting a chance, especially guys who, for whatever reason, couldn't quite make things work at 21 or 22

"Get a real job" is a phrase exclusively used by jealous, indignant people who are frustrated by changing job worlds and markets. Usually, it's fueled by perceptions of unfairness and desire for change to be minimized/nonexistent. In other words, it makes you sound like an angry boomer. Things change. I don't care how old the college players are.

yup it blows. most of them are not good and we have to watch them get recycled over and over

Taulia is officially done the NCAA denied his extra year of eligibility

U forgot Dillion Gabriel. The 23 year old is on his 3rd school, smh. He cost Ty Thompson to leave Oregon which sat behide Bo Nix for 2 years. And he was there before Bo Nix

Its wack to hate on someone chasing there dreams plus you dont know any of these guys family situations. They might be the sole bread winners so this is how they are providing. having a vet in a locker room especially the right one goes a long way, why trip on something that does effect you?

As someone who plays at the d2 level it’s an even bigger problem at this level.

Super dumb take. You just sound bitter that you couldn’t do what they’re doing and make a killing playing a game tbh. Sour grapes sour grapes sour grapes.

I always felt this way about Stetson Bennett. That dude could collect a pension check from Georgia

Good vid but Tua’s brother just got denied his eligibility

At power programs like Ohio State, Georgia, and Bama, the first rounders are usually playing their final junior season at 20 years old. Now your normal sophomore 19 year olds are playing against 23/24 year olds like they're playing BYU every game. Even players like Shilo Sanders are going to be 24 playing against teenagers this year.

It's not necessarily abuse. Casey Thompson had a redshirt year, covid year, and medical rshirt. He's going to back up Jackson Arnold and learn how to coach, which is what he ultimately trying to do.

Not that big of a deal. It’s their life. If colleges grant them an extra year then it is what it is. I guarantee you that most people in these comments would love to have an extra year to play including the dude who made the video. Sounds like this is stemming from jealousy tbh🤷‍♂️

I like the passion ! These dudes are opportunistis 😂 I think it's wild ! I like your disdain the most 😂

I agree wholeheartedly with your thoughts on players staying in school well after their best before dates. They clog up the paths for younger players and make it incredibly difficult to recruit. I look at a couple of players who did themselves a disservice by coming back this past season. J. T. Daniels could have been making decent money as a third or second string on an NFL bench but after yet another concussion he's out of football for good and is going the coaching route. And Frank Harris at UTSA, he stretched his college career to 6 years and will most likely never play at the pro level. If I were the NCAA I'd close that loophole immediately. I can't imagine a 23 or 24 year old in high school yet alone a grown man in college. Taking it a step farther, I think the transfer portal and the NIL deals have hurt the sport as well Allow one shot at the transfer portal and that's it. As for those QB's who can't seem to move on to the next level, consider the CFL. Not as much money as the NFL, but there are jobs to be won there (see Chad Kelly).

At the end of the day my coach use to always tell me if you dont like being number 2 get better so youre number 1 on the depth chart. Theres so many teams that end up with mediocre QB play that if a guy who's damn near 30 can come steal your spot thats on you. The best player plays in a lot of places. I wont ever knock someone chasing there dreams, this might be there last level there going to play on. If i could make 6 figures playing football over a 9 to 5 thats an easy choice. Let them chase that bag

My biggest issue is with records. In order to make it a more accurate representation of who the greatest players were, only a player’s best 4 years in college should count towards school records. Up to them to choose which 4. Even I could get a school record or two if you gave me 10 years to do it.

Spencer Petras should be on this list! I remember him putting on the leather Hawkeye helmet his sophomore year and he's still eligible! He's transferring to Utah state apparently for his last year of eligibility at the age of 42.

The first half minute or so of this video nailed it out of the park

I've been saying the same thing too. 5th and 6th year seniors in the portal are not the bonus people try to make them out to be. If they were good players, they would be in the NFL. There is a reason they haven't moved on from college.

I play college rugby in Canada and while I agree that this is a problem I can kinda relate to not wanting to turn away from the game (to be fair Canadian college rugby isn’t as big as ncaa football) it’s hard when a sport has been your whole life and all of the sudden you realize you won’t make it. But that’s just life, my mindset is don’t hate the player hate the game none of these guys will be able to do this if the league didn’t let them I don’t think any of these guys are fully to blame for all of this

JOE BURROW got drafted at 23 years old. He's a great qb and it had something to do with extra years learning in college how to be an NFL player.

I think 5 years is enough or max the age out at 23. That way the 19 and 20 year-old high school grads can’t play well into their mid-20’s.

A KZfaqr telling someone to get a real job ???😂😂

They seems to be so self-assured going into college, that they have no patience to be backup and learn. Watching starters get NIL money probably feeds the impatience. Their first transfer, when everything doesn't go right for the first time of their lives, is usually the worst decision they make. Like Scott implies, people will figure out how to exploit rules intended for other purposes; but for some reason, the rule makers can't anticipate the negative effects. With NIL healthy mentors are probably ignored for agents looking to exploit.

Who the hell cares if they play another year? They get one chance at this in their lives and it’s hardly affecting the league

Imagine being 25 beating up on 18 year olds thinking you’re him 😭😭

I mean the big reason Michigan and Washington did so well with very MID recruiting classes is because of covid years and people were aloud to stay sooooo long. So they have very experienced teams not young teams at all I think Michigan has 48 seniors half their roster.

Couldn’t agree more. Guys have trouble letting go of this phase of their life

I have mixed feelings on this topic. I will say some counterpoints though to things you touched on: 1) smaller school guys that are deserving DO get opportunities. A very quick scroll of 24/7 shows numerous QB’s that had their teams in the FCS playoffs moving up to FBS teams in Power 5 conferences no less. 2) I put a lot of the blame on fans and admin that want instant results and don’t want to “trust the process”. A lot of these coaches are probably more willing to take a flier on a 6th year journeyman because many coaches leashes aren’t all that long. The potential may be lower with the journeyman but the baseline is already pretty well established and that can honestly be the difference in a guy keeping his job another 1-2 years versus rolling out a kid that’s still a work in progress and the wheels completely falling off the season.

At first i was like this dude joking or a hater. You make good points though. Good video

Basically journeyman quarterbacks are making a bank by staying in college as opposed to having to go to the NFL and be low around draft picks on undrafted and have to work for a living

Love the honesty etc. But as a former athlete that has kids a family job etc. I'd literally give up my left nut for one more chance to suit up so I don't hold it against these guys but I do hate it for the younger guys and the juco guys but life isn't fair

LMAO bohannon is still playing ? insanity

What's up with people quitting on the season and jumping in the portal? A WR from Boise st quit in the middle of the season to jump in the portal, Boise st went on to win the conference title. Just finish the year out then transfer

While it's true for some players, there are others who really got the short end of the injury stick, like Cam Rising. If I put myself in their shoes and football is my dream, then I'm maximizing every effort I can to keep it alive and make it pro one day. That's how I look at it

Man if these kids keep getting chances, and keep playing the game they love, let them live! You sound like quite the hater seeing these kids get another chance to play ball. No way you’d be saying this if you were in their shoes.

Casual college football fan here - Are players at other positions doing this? Or do QBs doing this the most and/or get the most attention?

Scott, tell us what you think of BYU their way of doing things.

If these guys hope to get drafted by hopping from one school to another then they are delusional af

Stetson Bennet: *vibin Scott Fischer: “and I took that personally”

7 years as a college QB basically means you won't be playing in the NFL

“It was part of an injury he sustained in 2022” Utah fan here so there will be a bit of bias, but it wasn’t just some injury. Rising apparently tore like 3 different ligaments in his knee during the Rose Bowl. While it was extremely frustrating hearing the “oh he’ll be back next week” narrative for the first six weeks of the season, until he announced that he wasn’t coming back for the season, it makes sense.

So before it was complaints about players leaving too early, now its complaints that people are abusing a system we all KNEW they would abuse.. The tears will continue as well as the narrative shift

College football went from having too many rules to just letting everyone do whatever they want.

Taulia got denied by the NCAA to get another year of eligibility. He is currently preparing for the NFL Draft

the ONLY reason I don't have a big problem with it is because there are over 100 schools. If you cant start at any of them, you're developing from the bench anyway, age of the guy in front doesn't matter imo so it isn't really taking away opportunities for younger men. But if it was like Arch Manning behind Stetson Bennett that would be annoying.

Between the nil deals and the transfer portal what we are seeing now is the equivalent of the ncaa's version of

You should talk about the hire of Fran brown at Syracuse he has brought some juice to their recruiting.

TE at Miami has been playing college ball for almost a decade 😂

What year is TJ Finley? He just entered the portal my guy is gonna be on his 4th school

To be fair cam rising was just injured but I get what you’re saying

I mean a Tight end at Miami(FL) just got a 9th year of eligibility...

I don’t see the problem…put yourself in their shoes why wouldn’t you come back and keep playing if you can 🤷🏿‍♂️

Scott, don't hate the player, hate the game. These kids/men (ha) are just playing within the rules that were set by others. You can't blame them for not giving up.

I know this about QBs but as a fellow Mizzou fan I would love if Schrader had 1 more year left of eligibility bcuz our offense would be unstoppable next year

Let these guys do what they want. The NCAA and schools run it and make money off it like a business so these guys are working. Everyone else involved with college sports get passes but the players gotta always be crapped on. Stick to the other videos because I don't believe you would turn a 6th year and nil deal when you not getting drafted or be in a hiring freeze.

Who are you to say what they should be doing? Get a life

What happened to the original rule of your eligibility starts the moment your first day of college is and ends 5 years later these guys are trying to be like the Brett Favre of college football.

Don't forget Jordon McLoud who just committed to Texas State Hell I was a College Freshman in 2018 too

Can’t blame the lesser schools for taking transfers at quarterback. There’s no reward for developing players at every position just for the bigger P5 teams to take them if they blow up. If you can bring in a solid or avg starter instead of going with an 18 year old, it makes sense.

A starting qb for a major university will get more thru nil than he will ever make at a regular job

Miami tight end might be 30 before he stops playing college ball

I went to college for 5 years in 2016 and graduated in 2021 and I was 21 Y/O! These dudes can’t be 27 playing college ball!

Hard to care about recruiting now even tho I’m a 🦆 and Dan is goin crazy hard to know who will be there after one year of Gabriel and if Moore is as good as they think… rather just pay better younger guys than DG but idk

All these guys would be solid candidates ( well, minus a couple of them) for the CFL and UFL

Idk what bugs me more. Dillon Gabriel setting career records with 2 extra years or guys like JT Daniels playing for 4 schools in 4 years. On should be trying to play pro and the other should have been coaching pop Warner

So because you don't like it or don't agree they should just give up on their dreams? A lot of factors probably play into these decisions and above all do you really think that is what they want? To be the oldest on an NCAA roster? You can't feel worse about than they do. Cool lil video tho.

these overaged college ballers shouldn't be allowed to compete in FBS schools past their age 24. they should hone their skills in FCS schools if they want to keep developing to make it in the NFL, but definitely shouldn't be in the FBS schools denying younger talents opportunities.

So you’re saying if they have bad season they should not get another chance to be better so they get drafted I like the idea of kids getting another chance

It's ridiculous. 4-5 years is all it should be

Cam Rising would be in the NFL rn if he didn’t completely blow out his knee against Penn State in the rose bowl

Tagoviola (sp?) was denied an extra year of eligibility

I mean if they allow you to keep playing, why not? Make that NIL money playing the sport that you love while continuing your education.

I’m a hurricane fan and there’s a guy that’s like 27-28 on the team😂

What about bo? Penix? These guys are 24yrs old. Played with 3 yr NFL players…

one of the most out of pocket thumbnails ive ever seen

I did agree the 5th year it is time to go

Dillon Gabriel has been in college for like 10 years

I don’t seem to understand what the issue is, there’s much worse things In College football that are hurting the sport and this is not one of them, all these player will eventually graduate and every one who has played since 2020 will be out. All the madness with NIL and the transfer portal are the actual current issues.

First and W video

I think the issue is instant eligibility. You want to change schools sit out a year.

U should get 5 years 6 at the most unless somebody passes away and no injuries happen

Isn't there a guy or 2 in basketball on year 8?

Casey won’t play at Ou doing it for more of a mentor role than a payer

What about Brandon Weeden, a baseball player who switched to football?

I like the video but like you said a lot more fun making money to play football then selling insurance

Is it bad that i hope most of these guys lose the starting job to someone younger