I've been asking for years, literal years. Now tell me how the transfer portal, tell me how name image and likeness. Tell me how all of this transformation, this, this crazy change in college football affects your Saturday. We just had uh if you believe the reports that are out there and there's enough of them that I believe them. We just had a starting quarterback at a power five school that's bowl eligible with things to play for on the line decide they didn't want to keep playing this year to protect a year of eligibility, to protect a red shirt. You would assume to protect name image and likeness you would assume to protect transfer opportunities. You would assume a lot. It happened. MJ Morris NC State quarterback news trickling out and then rushing out today came, came a couple of drops at a time. Then all at once, then the faucet just wide open, the floodgates opened up MJ Morris electing to Red Shirt this year, this after he took over as the starting quarterback four games ago and went three and one as a starter and took NC State from, uh you know, maybe they might be bowl eligible to bowl eligible with back to back wins over Clemson in Miami. And that's not to say he did it, but it is to say he was the starting quarterback when that happened. And if you're the starting quarterback during the turnaround, you get credit for the turnaround, right. If we're gonna blame the quarterback when the team doesn't play well, then when the team plays well, we give the credit to the quarterback. Mj Morris wasn't perfect but he got them to bowl eligibility. And now he's doing the equivalent of when you see a tired wide receiver, tap his head coach. I need one coach. I'm coming out coach, I need a break. Only. He's doing that for the rest of the season. Wolf Packers. Shout out to them. They had it first. Uh, Ethan mcdowell was the first place I saw the report and like I said, a whole bunch of confirmations across the, uh, the, the beat pac pride reporting that he was working with the scout team our very own. Brian Murphy had a quote from Mj Morris's dad, Eddie Harris that says he's not leaving the program said if he was gonna leave the program would have left in January, would have left in May, he had plenty of options. This is uncharted territory. How in the world can a quarterback? Can a player go back into the, the locker room or expect a team to follow him? Right. Quarterbacks are default leaders, right? It's the, it comes with the position. How do you expect a team to follow you after you make this decision? Maybe it's possible. My gut says it's gonna be very difficult, but maybe it's possible. We've just never seen it. Here's the crazy part. By the way, you can check out the Pack Therapy podcast. We did an emergency pod earlier today myself, Mike Glennon reacting to this news, uh Mike Glennon being the former NC State quarterback himself that that had to deal with transfer uh conversations when he was on campus. Um and we discussed this the first question I asked, Mike was right. Here's all the background. MJ Morris, this MJ Morris that MJ Morris redshirting electing the red shirt based on the reports. Can you see why the scariest part is his answer? And my answer would have been the same. Yes. Hm. There is motivation for quarterbacks to do exactly what Mj Morris is doing, which you could argue is just kind of leave your team hanging, not on. I it's it's such a tough conversation because I am an A I, I call myself the lead activist for players' rights, right? I call myself the lead activist for players' rights because I almost always err on the side of players should be allowed to make the decisions that they think are best for them, right? They are adults, these are not high school kids below 18, these are adults just like someone in the science department or someone in the school choir or someone, uh, like any of them should be able to make the decisions, make the decisions that they think are best for themselves. I think athletes should too. But this one's tough. This is middle of a season. You're bowl eligible. You're six and three, you have three games left in the regular season, plus your bowl game that you've already qualified for. If you win three of those, you are tied with the most wins. Dave Doran has gotten in any season at NC State. If you win all four, you set the new high water mark for this era of NC state football and your starting quarterback just said, I gotta look out for me, which again, I understand, I understand you gotta look out for you. I understand that there's almost two college footballs going on right now. There's the team, first team always team only and there's the, this is big business. I gotta protect my own. Those are two very difficult to line up businesses, right? What's a if, if you are a player like Mj Morris and you have confidence in yourself being a starting quarterback at the power five level, how much is another year of eligibility worth to you? I mean, if you, if you're signing big nil deals, how much is another year of eligibility worth to you? Is it worth some side eye from the fans for for bowing out of the last three games of a season. Is it worth a couple snide comments from players on your team that are like, hey, man, what the heck we're, I'm a senior. I'm trying to win this year. There are so many moving parts to this. Uh, you know, I have my notes from the podcast right here. If you're on our WRL sports fan, uh, video stream, I just kind of flashed them at you. There's so many different aspects of this, right? I wasn't writing down questions between me and Mike. I was writing down. All right. Well, we have to, we have to talk about the Brennan Armstrong element of it all the transfer that came in and probably wasn't the, the, you know, the day that Brendan Armstrong chose NC State to transfer to probably wasn't the happiest day of MJ Morris's life. Uh We have to talk about the returning back to the locker room part of it all which has to be tough. We have to talk about the Dave Doran element of it. Dave Doran had the, the celebratory cigar, right? He, he was hanging out in the parking lot after the win over Miami with his friends and family. He had just become NC State's all time winningest coach by Tuesday. He's dealing with his starting quarterback electing to, to red shirt. We have to talk about Jordan Houston, the starting running back for NC State who chose to register earlier this year and is now looking for a new program next year. We have to talk about the name, image and likeness collectives of it all who's paying these guys, how much would it cost? We have to talk about the evolution, like all of these different angles, the evolution of, you know, again, with Mike Glennon being my co-host on the podcast. Hey, you've sat behind Russell Wilson for three years after being the number four ranked protyle quarterback in the country as a recruit. Will that ever happen again? And actually, Mike brought up a really interesting part because I was like, will that ever happen again? Would you sit that long? He's like, you know, people ask me that all the time, but somebody brought up something that's never asked, maybe Russell would have transferred, maybe he would have gotten a bag from some giant school and, and I would have been playing earlier because Russell left to take the Georgia money or, you know, he didn't use the specific examples or Wisconsin or heck maybe Wisconsin would have backed up the Brinks truck that those are questions. And, and to be honest with you, Mike didn't really answer that question because what he said was, it was so outside the realm of possibility, I never even considered it because I couldn't transfer until I graduated. Or else I would have had to sit out a year and it's not like there were big truckloads of money waiting for me elsewhere. This is the challenge of modern college football. If your best interests as a team in a program don't align with the best interests of the individual player. There's nothing to say that your, your players are gonna sacrifice the thing that's in the best interest of them for the good of the team because now it's a business, right? This is the equivalent of, you know, sitting out in the NFL. We see it all the time.