A happy Gasparilla Bowl day and more importantly, a happy Festivus to all who observe Frank Costanza's holiday.
Onto slightly more serious matters ...
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Sam Hartman will be transferring to Notre Dame sometime after today's game, per a source.
Based on Dave Clawson's comments on a few occasions this month, it's seemed increasingly likely that Hartman wouldn't be headed to the NFL after the season, as had been the implication since the spring when Hartman originally said this would be his final season.
Here was a Clawson quote from Tuesday: "I think Sam wants to go to the NFL. He's been made aware that if he goes in the portal, there's going to be some very lucrative (NIL) opportunities for him. And it's from very specific schools. ... If Sam decides that's what he wants to do, I wish him all the best. This guy has done nothing but everything right for five years at Wake Forest. And I don't want to do anything to hurt him or what he's going to do.
"I think Sam wants to play really well in the bowl game. He wants to finish his Wake Forest career on a high and I'm sure he'll take some afterward and figure out what he wants to do. And whatever decision that is, whatever choice that is, we support him 100%. ... I told him, 'Whatever you do, Sam, there's no hard feelings.'"
Notre Dame's QB situation is: Tyler Buchner won the starting job in fall camp but suffered a season-ending injury in the second game. He was replaced by Drew Pyne, who was decent -- 2,021 yards, 22 TDs, 6 INTs, 108 yards and 2 TDs rushing -- but transferred to Arizona State.
It seems likely Hartman will be in a competition with Buchner for the starting role in 2023.
ND and Wake Forest play in South Bend next season (Oct. 28). ND's ACC road games next season are Duke (TBD), Clemson (Nov. 4), Louisville and N.C. State (both TBD) -- kinda crazy that of the 5 ACC games, the only one at ND is Wake Forest.
My two cents: I've said since about mid-October that I've never covered another player who's been more ready to be finished with college football than Hartman. From cutting off his own presser after the Clemson game to the disappearing act in post-games, it's been a sour and bitter feel to the end of the season. That word "sour" has been used by others around the program to describe his mood in the second half of the season; dour is another good word. So it's shocking on some levels that he's going to be in college again; and then on another level, maybe I had the wrong read on the situation and he was just finished with being at Wake Forest.
Onto slightly more serious matters ...
Per usual, information on this board stays on this board, please.
Sam Hartman will be transferring to Notre Dame sometime after today's game, per a source.
Based on Dave Clawson's comments on a few occasions this month, it's seemed increasingly likely that Hartman wouldn't be headed to the NFL after the season, as had been the implication since the spring when Hartman originally said this would be his final season.
Here was a Clawson quote from Tuesday: "I think Sam wants to go to the NFL. He's been made aware that if he goes in the portal, there's going to be some very lucrative (NIL) opportunities for him. And it's from very specific schools. ... If Sam decides that's what he wants to do, I wish him all the best. This guy has done nothing but everything right for five years at Wake Forest. And I don't want to do anything to hurt him or what he's going to do.
"I think Sam wants to play really well in the bowl game. He wants to finish his Wake Forest career on a high and I'm sure he'll take some afterward and figure out what he wants to do. And whatever decision that is, whatever choice that is, we support him 100%. ... I told him, 'Whatever you do, Sam, there's no hard feelings.'"
Notre Dame's QB situation is: Tyler Buchner won the starting job in fall camp but suffered a season-ending injury in the second game. He was replaced by Drew Pyne, who was decent -- 2,021 yards, 22 TDs, 6 INTs, 108 yards and 2 TDs rushing -- but transferred to Arizona State.
It seems likely Hartman will be in a competition with Buchner for the starting role in 2023.
ND and Wake Forest play in South Bend next season (Oct. 28). ND's ACC road games next season are Duke (TBD), Clemson (Nov. 4), Louisville and N.C. State (both TBD) -- kinda crazy that of the 5 ACC games, the only one at ND is Wake Forest.
My two cents: I've said since about mid-October that I've never covered another player who's been more ready to be finished with college football than Hartman. From cutting off his own presser after the Clemson game to the disappearing act in post-games, it's been a sour and bitter feel to the end of the season. That word "sour" has been used by others around the program to describe his mood in the second half of the season; dour is another good word. So it's shocking on some levels that he's going to be in college again; and then on another level, maybe I had the wrong read on the situation and he was just finished with being at Wake Forest.
