So the joke looks like this: Nick Saban is the only person who has managed to stop Jalen Hurts.
But before we warm up the past or who did what and why, perhaps it Fall and ascent of injuries can be a teaching moment for UNIVERSITY FOOTS of the generation now.
Maybe if we look very close, Hurts is not the aberrant value. It is part of an undeniable quarter trend that can no longer be ignored.
“There is an unprecedented value in failure,” said Georgia coach Kirby Smart last summer.
Somewhere along the way, we have lost sight of this.
Somewhere, in the bustle of the free movement of players and zero transactions, and if this does not work here, there is always the transfer portal, is a story of reality that everyone needed.
The story of the young quarter of the suburbs of Houston who arrived in Alabama in 2016 as a mid-term, and it took a quarter of the opening of the season for Saban to realize that Hurts must be on the ground. If you think it is an improbable conduct, consider these next steps:
– But for a two-minute unlikely touching trip from Deshaun Watson and Clemson, Hurts would have been a quarter of the national championship as a recruit.
– A year later, after leading the Alabama to 25 victories in 27 departures, Hurts was bench at the halftime of the National Championship of the University Football Council against Georgia for the Tua Tagovailoa recruit.
– A year after that, after the humility of losing the starting station in the fall camp again, Hurts stayed in Alabama and finally replaced an injured Tagovailoa during the dry championship match. And led a return victory.
It is only then that the transfer to Oklahoma, where he led the Sooners to the playoffs of university football and was a finalist of the Heisman trophy. It was only then that he persevered five years more before finally ending the road to redemption with a Super Bowl championship.
Bench in the biggest moment of his athletic career, to come back to be appointed MVP of the Super Bowl. It is the value of failure.
It is Houte, whose mobile phone wallpaper was a photo of his ego discouraged after losing the Super Bowl LVII in 2023. For two years, this photo was the first and the last thing he saw every day.
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But Hurts is not alone in his unique battle against failure.
Almost a year ago, the state of Kansas told Will Howard after four seasons in the program he was move forward With the second year talented student Avery Johnson. So Howard signed with Ohio State, absorbed two brutal losses against Oregon and Michigan, then played the best section of four games in his university career and won everything.
Stetson Bennett failed in Georgia, he was told that he would not play the quarter-arre for the Bulldogs and that I went to play in Junior College. He returned a year later and finally won consecutive National titles in 2021-222.
Joe Burrow failed for three seasons to win the departure post at Ohio State, transferred to LSU in 2018 and 2019 the biggest individual season In the modern university football era – and won the national title and the Heisman trophy.
Do you see a trend?
The problem in university football is not the transfer portal. It abandons.
The problem is not players who make money on their names, their image and their resemblance, it is the players who play the system for more money while ignoring the magnificent slog of the version.
These are the quarters, the most important position on the field and the only position with more turnover than any other, jumping from one team to another and dream of dreaming.
It is to avoid failure and all the potential to learn and develop, for easy money and easy to get out of the next team.
Four of the best 10 quarters of the 2024 recruitment class, according to the 247sport composite classification, are no longer with their original teams. Five of the first 10 of 2023 are not either.
The free movement of the players was a pipe dream when Hurts was put on the bench in 2017, then did not win the job again in his 2018 junior season. It was only after graduating early From Alabama before the start of the 2019 season, Hurts could use a graduate transfer to the Oklahoma immediately playing.
But think of this: he could have left Alabama during the 2018 fall camp, when it was clear that Tagovailoa was the team’s starter. He could have stayed in a season and still played in 2019 at Oklahoma.
The beautiful Slog changed it. Just as it did Bennett and Burrow and Howard after him.
As he did for Bo Nix and Kurtis Rourke and maybe even Arch Manning.
There is value in check. You don’t need a super bowl trophy to see it.
Matt Hayes is the National Editor of National University Football for USA Today Sports Network. Follow him on x to @Matthayescfb.
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