He's back! Star EDGE Dylan Stewart returning to South Carolina
It's confirmed that one of the cornerstone pieces of South Carolina football's roster will be back in Columbia in 2025.
BOOM! Dylan Stewart returning to South Carolina for 2025 season
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Pretty sad state of affairs that we have to be excited about this.
Next year's Nagurski Trophy winner?He's back! Star EDGE Dylan Stewart returning to South Carolina
It's confirmed that one of the cornerstone pieces of South Carolina football's roster will be back in Columbia in 2025.www.on3.com
Back-to-back would be nice.
So the only way to keep starters now is to sign NIL deals?
We have seen this before. Then Oregon calls. It aint over till the ball is snapped in September. Sorry for the truth.
In most instances, yes. That's everywhere.
Good thing that South Carolina and Garnet Trust could get it done.
And that Stewart - who could literally play anywhere and command a huge premium, loves it in Columbia.
Yes. I'm glad he's staying and all, but he's not staying just because he loves USC. In the article, Beamer is quoted as saying "This program is about relationships." That may be a factor in the formula, but only one factor and maybe not even the biggest factor.
To quote Dwight Schrute: "Look, I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued my loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most."
Yep. When I first saw the headline, my initial thought was, "so we're announcing stuff that's supposed to be?" Like, "BREAKING: Rhode Island Dork gets out of bed!"
I don't recall a situation in which it was announced by Garnet Trust that they had signed a player to a deal and that player didn't return that season.
Let Garnet Trust tell him they are going to have to cut what they pay him to get another player and see how much he loves it in Columbia.
I just don't see how anything about this Stewart could be a negative.
Stewart could also get more money, I'm sure, going somewhere else. He'll be well taken care of here, but he could get more other places.
A player can love a place and still get a fair market value deal. it's part of the game now.
If he didn't love Columbia, he could bounce.
I understand this is the nature of the beast now. Guys aren't just playing for your school because that's where they want to be. If it's just business, it's just business and we don't have to be excited about it.
My feelings on college athletics are trending the way of my feelings on pro sports. Juan Soto just rejected a 16 year $760 million from the Yankees in favor of a 15 year $765 million offer from the Mets. When I see stuff like that, I simply don't even care.
As a kid/teen, I used to be a passionate fan of some pro sports teams, but the older I get it just seems silly to care so much about a team that's composed of players who care less about the team than you do. College sports is heading that way.
My feelings on college athletics are trending the way of my feelings on pro sports. Juan Soto just rejected a 16 year $760 million from the Yankees in favor of a 15 year $765 million offer from the Mets. When I see stuff like that, I simply don't even care.
As a kid/teen, I used to be a passionate fan of some pro sports teams, but the older I get it just seems silly to care so much about a team that's composed of players who care less about the team than you do. College sports is heading that way.
I don't have a problem with the NIL contract. That's the name of the game, and it's perfectly reasonable.
I do have a problem with an unrestricted transfer portal that makes players free agents after every season. That's completely ridiculous, and it's not sustainable in the long run.
I do have a problem with an unrestricted transfer portal that makes players free agents after every season. That's completely ridiculous, and it's not sustainable in the long run.
The fact that this new system forces us to recruit our own players each year and sign them to basically one year contracts is the negative.
Not that Stewart agreed to stay, but that it's even a discussion to begin with.
But, times change.
I agree. Certainly good news. Other teams could certainly match or exceed the NIL money. He chose to stay. That does not mean that you should be taken for granted and not rewarded in todays NIL world. Someone of this caliber can be making life/family changing money in NIL. Yes it is very different than it used to be. But this is everywhere in college sports. You have to accept it or move on from college sports as a university.
In today's world, nobody would have the stones to actually hold a player to an NIL contract. If a school/trust dared try, the kid would sue and a liberal, bleeding heart judge would side with the "student" athlete.
It is becoming a situation where watching college football is akin to going to the NYSE trading floor and watching the traders work. No one is there because they love the exchange or NYC, they are there for the money. If they got a better paying job in Chicago at the Mercantile Exchange they would jump.
It's hard to be passionate about watching people do their jobs. This is the main reason I don't care anything about the NFL or MLB.
I don’t remember who signed what deals but I seem to recall someone signing a deal and then bouncing the next week. It was either Burch, Lloyd or grape juice.
Perhaps. Maybe not yet but give it time. USC isn’t any different than any other program, and we’ve seen plenty of opportunistic players jump ship. You may not see it as a negative but realism has set in and fans are not convinced there’s any loyalty involved any more. Times have indeed changed, including fans’ expectations with players and their ability to change uniforms like a a chameleon.
Its business, and it is the state of things today. you have to adjust, go with it or get left behind. And lets not fool ourselves, great players have always been paid by the schools that we always suspected. now its legal and im glad we are trying to compete on the NIL aspect. And Stewart can write his own price, glad we took the initiative.
It is beyond sad that it is news that a sophomore is returning to the team.
Per Garnet Trust on Twitter, Stewart was never looking around and only posted that he was returning because it's a necessary thing to do these days to end speculation that he might be looking around. Not sure if accurate.
Stewart, as a sophomore in college, will make more than 3x more as his coach, Travian Robertson,
Oh, you can trust the info on social media coming from Garnet Trust. After all, it has the word “trust” in its title . . . .
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