Mum on royal transfer busts

D'eriq King, transferred from Houston (AAC) to Miami (ACC) in 2020 in hopes of a big NFL payday. I'm not sure how the Pats who signed King(QB) as a UFA, will use him. I'll use this blog to track other busts. 

Earlier blog: https://busterother5.blogspot.com/2019/09/friday-13th-football-mumme-and-more.html

May 4, 2022

On a lesser level Jack Coan, a starting QB at Wisky, transferred to Notre Dame, and was sIgned as a UFA by the Colts. 

Anthony Brown(QB) with Boston College and then Oregon had big stats but went undrafted. Ravens just signed him.  

May 15, 2022

Skyler Thomas, who was the starting safety at Wazzoo a few years ago and jumped in/out/in of the transfer portal when he thought the Pac 12 was headed for a Covid shutdown, landed at Liberty U for 2022. He went undrafted and was signed as a UDFA by the Chargers. He has a shot, but the move did not increase his value.

June 4, 2022

McKenzie Milton who played QB at UCF and Florida St gave up on his NFL aspirations due to lingering knee issues. He started an NIL company in February 2022 with former Miami U quarterback D'Eriq King to help athletes "land potential deals,". It has a heavy UCF-focus. 

June 30, 2022

Here's a hoops story that pre-dates NIL but shows some negatives from early recruiting, particularly for five-star guys.  Emoni Bates initially committed to playing in his home state of Michigan at the age of 16 by pledging to join Sparty  in June 2020 but decommitted. Next up Memphis where he averaged less than ten points a game last season. Now he's headed home to play at Eastern Michigan (MAC).

July 28, 2022

 I missed this news in May. Patriots cut QB D’Eriq King after trying him out at multiple positions. No other NFL teams have shown any interest.

Oct 7, 2022

Rumors the Raiders are looking at Jack Coan who is a FA, but how will they protect him.

Nov 14, 2022

Maybe this one is not a bust? Ex-top recruit Emoni Bates has 30 in his Eastern Michigan(MAC) debut but it wasn't enough. Mich 88 EMU 83. EMU helped him through some off court problems in September including gun charges. Perhaps, he'll mature and realize how protected he's been. Who knows?

Feb 26, 2023

D'eriq King was signed then released quickly by Carolina Panthers in Nov 2022. He's with the DC Defenders in the XFL. Prime example of how "working" the transfer portal doesn't always guarantee you a big payday in the NFL.

Emoni Bates is averaging 20 points a game for E. Michigan, a weak MAC team. He appears to have found a home, but I doubt if he gets drafted by the NBA. Perhaps, he lands in the G League.

Feb 4, 2024

D"Eric King is a QB coach for SMU. Emoni Bates is on a two-way contract, shuffling between the Cavs and its G League affiliate, the Charge.

Friday the 13th Football, Mumme and more

Yesterday morning I scanned the sports TV schedule and focused on the two games involving ACC teams , UNC/Wake Forest and BC/Kansas(B12). It's been five years since the Terps divorce from the ACC went into effect for the 2014/15 marriage with the Big 10, and I still forget from time to time.
Jamie Newman led the Deacons to a 21-0 halftime lead, and they hung on for a 24-18 win over UNC that oddly doesn't count in the ACC standings. They're in different ACC divisions and haven't met since 2015, and many wonder why this long time rivalry hasn't been made a part of the ACC schedule .
Kansas stunned BC 48-24 for its first road win over a Power 5 school in nearly 11 years. Carter Stanley tossed three TD passes for the Jayhawks.
In a game matching Hal Mumme coaching disciples, Leach and Holgorsen, Washington St (pac12) survived 31 -24 over Houston (AAC). #AnthonyGordon threw for 440 yards and three touchdowns for his third straight 400-yard game for WSU. BTW, Hal Mumme was on the sidelines and was interviewed during the TV broadcast.

Sept 15

Big Saturday for the Big 12: TCU over Purdue(B10). KST over Miss St(SEC). WV over NCST(ACC) .
UCF (AAC) rolled Stanford (PAC 12)

Oct 4

It's been a rough time for Mumme's disciples, Holgorsen and Leach, since their Friday the 13 matchup. Holgorsen's star QB King took a healthy redshirt, and Leach called his players sloppy and soft after a 67-65 loss to UCLA.

Jan 14, 2020

 King graduated in Dec and entered the transfer portal yesterday. Leach is now in charge at Miss St

Jan 21

West Virginia RB #MartellPettaway opts for grad transfer to #MTSU (CUSA) In 2019 he rushed 19 times for 72 yards and two touchdowns. When he played for Holgorsen in 2018, he rushed for 623 yards, six touchdowns. 
King leaves Houston for Miami U

jan 22

Hawai'i hires Todd Graham ,ex-ARIZ St  HC (2011-17 ), to be HC.  He started his coaching career on Rich Rodriguez's staff at West Virginia as linebackers coach in 2001

april 5

Times have changed  #mikeleach, Miss St football coach tweeted about a woman knitting her husband a hanging rope during the quarantine got slapped by the PC internet cops. In 1992 #jackiesherill, then the Mississippi St coach, allowed a bull to be castrated in front of his team  and got less flack. 

april 19, 2020

  I saw this headline : Miami's D'Eriq King is poised to have a Joe Burrow-like impact for the Miami Hurricanes in 2020 and laughed. He!!, If the Canes average two TDs a game on O, that would be an improvement.

MAY 10, 2020

I was looking around at transfer news and saw Tyler Carr, TE from Texas Tech,  was headed to Hawaii and his OC would be GJ Kinne who was a low level asst on the Eagles(NFL) staff last season. When I read more of Kinne's bio , I learned that he was once put into protective custody when his father , who was also his high school football coach was shot in the chest by the disgruntled parent of one of the team's players at Canton HS in Mesquite,TX.

June 4, 2020

RIP Johnny Majors who had 185-137-10 lifetime record at three stops : Iowa St, Pitt, and Tenn. He ended his career in 2007 as Asst AD at Pitt. He led Iowa St (Big Eight) to its first   bowl game, the Sun Bowl in 1971, in which they were crushed by LSU 33-15.

Jackie Sherill replaced Majors at Pitt in 1977.

June 5, 2020

Marinos's statistics dipped during his senior year, which saw Pitt transition from head coach Jackie Sherrill to new coach Foge Fazio. Sherill took the Texas A&M job in 1982.

June 29, 2020

 I found this while reading an article on Rolovich , who left Hawaii(MWC) for Wazzoo. Hawaii's athletic budget of 46M is smaller than East Carolina (AAC), UMass(Independent) and James Madison (1AA)

June 24, 2021

Mumme just took a job in a developmental football league called “The Spring League” . Don't know WTH that is!!!!!!

March 1, 2022

Art Briles, who lasted four days at Grambling after Hue Jackson hired him.   S. Miss considered hiring Briles as an asst in 2019. Shawn Oakman, one of the Baylor players involved in that mess, was eventually exonerated. One a side issue, I noticed Mumme is a Tarleton St grad, and wonder if he chats with Gillepsie, their hoops HC.

May 3, 2022

D'eriq King jumped from the Houston Cougars to the Miami Canes in 2020 looking for an eventual big NFL  payday. Pats signed him as a UFA.

Dec 12, 2022

Mike Leach, the Miss St HC, is in the hospital and reports are that he's been fighting pneumonia for months. Zach Arnett, the Dawgs DC, is running the team heading into the bowl matchup against Illinois