yea ok....like I said, he didn’t sign in December on ESD which obviously was a dead give away that he was going to be processed out especially since he didn’t have grade issues. Who knows how the convo went but for him to not have a plan B is on him. He can’t act blindsided.
It depends on what Mullet told him, though. Miami has had similar issues, balancing "we are at our CURRENTLY ALLOWED number of ICs" and "hopefully the NCAA will give us some extra ICs for transfers".
The primary differences here are:
1. Miami signed all of the HS verbals in December, while the Gaytors allowed themselves for wiggle room (academic concerns are legit, numbers concerns are ******** with kids).
2. Miami has stuck to its number (24, we blueshirted Jarrid Willams last year) in spite of the widely-held belief that more transfer ICs would be freed up by the NCAA. Thus, Miami held tight to its 21 high school signees and 3 transfer signees, and did not over-promise. Clearly, Mullet THOUGHT he would be able to take Strickland BECAUSE he thought the NCAA would give extra transfer ICs in January, but that never materialized. Hence, the late drop of Strickland and the inability to take Savion Collins AT THIS TIME.
Also, I believe that Deyavie Hammond may count back a couple of years to his original signing date, thus pushing him out of the 2021 signing class would NOT give the Gaytors an extra 2021 IC. I believe there are only 2 options with academic non-qualifiers signed to an LOI, either you lose the IC forever (if the kid never makes it to your school) or you get to (eventually) take him without counting him "twice" as an IC (i.e., you can recycle the IC to the year in which you signed him, not the year he enrolls).