Well, the Dear John letter on Instagram we\u2019ve all been dreading dropped on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, I want to thank God for the opportunities that he has blessed me with to play this game. I\u2019m so thankful to have had the opportunity to represent TCU for an incredible 4 years. It has been a dream to be able to play and graduate from this university and I will forever be grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
But \u2014 there\u2019s always a \u201cbut\u201d \u2014 TCU quarterback Josh Hoover continued, \u201cI will be entering the transfer portal.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, there it is. Well, hell.\u00a0This one hurts because Hoover represented stability in a volatile era of name, image, and likeness, and the specter of the transfer portal. He was \u201cour guy\u201d in a sports culture where \u201cour guy\u201d barely exists anymore.<\/p>\n
But alas \u2026 .\u00a0<\/p>\n
Josh Hoover is a fantastic person. We wish him the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our man Ken Seals of Azle and then Weatherford High, who traveled back here by way of Vanderbilt, is presumably the starter for TCU\u2019s Alamo Bowl game against Southern Cal. (Everybody remembers the last time TCU lost its starting quarterback right before the Alamo Bowl. It was epic.)<\/p>\n
Thankfully, Kansas \u2014 the band, that is \u2014 taught us all about transience in 1977. Nothing lasts forever, especially in today\u2019s college athletics\u2019 revenue sports. Once upon a time, our guys stayed with us until the eligibility ran out. Today, our college athletes more resemble Mickey Rooney or Jennifer Lopez. (Can you believe that Mickey Rooney found eight wives?)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s TCU one day. Indiana the next?<\/p>\n
The clickbaiting stations got on this immediately: Where will Josh Hoover land?<\/p>\n
Miami, Oregon, Texas Tech. No, Lord, no \u2026 not Texas Tech!<\/p>\n
The leader in the clubhouse appears to be Indiana, once a hotbed of college basketball. Bob Knight is somewhere beside himself \u2014 that is, red-faced and expressing his emotions, shall we say, with the harshest language ever known to man \u2014 that the Indiana football program is, one, No. 1 in the country; and, two, that the football coach there is making something like $93 million over eight years.<\/p>\n
However, Curt Cignetti has made the Hoosier State a destination for football transfers.<\/p>\n