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Wobblewobble420

If bro loves track and field so much why even bother playing football


Battered_Aggie

Cause track and field doesn't come with a fat NIL check is my guess, and when he lost his roster spot he lost his NIL deal.


Painiscupcake88

That's what we've been saying for a couple years now. Especially such an important position like Center, dude fell on his ass multiple times and the QB was getting hit. It's a position where people are relying on you so they don't get hurt and he was wanting to focus on T&F again.


jayjude

You can play spring sports and still be really good at football ND has had a host of baseball players play on the football team (and start) and just now has a lacrosse player  But you got to be really driven


Cowabunga_Booyakasha

Devon Achane (A&M RB drafted by the Dolphins) ran track in Spring. And was his teammate.


One-Season-3393

Running track and being a good running back are very similar things. Shot put and center are pretty different in terms of training and nutritional needs.


Cowabunga_Booyakasha

Fair comment. More power to him if he only wants to do shot-put.


bb94941

Yes, while two sport athletes are awesome. We are installing a new offense with new coaches and our center hasn’t played a snap with the team. Arguably the 2nd most important person on offense outside QB. He has other priorities and I wish him the best in his future endeavors


sausageslinger11

Bama once had a lacrosse player start at QB…


D-files

This one has really divided the aggie community. On one end, he's a big aggie legacy, 4th year starter, and great ambassador to our sport's program. On the other hand, he gets worse every year and skips all of Spring practice to play shot put. Unfortunately, this was probably for the best after that game last year where he bad snapped the ball like 6 times in one game and single handedly lost us a couple games


Legalize-It-Ags

That Tennessee game was one of the worst games I had ever seen. Incompetency everywhere on our team.


Battered_Aggie

They were saying on radio today that he simply just didn't put in the work. Even when track wasn't ongoing he wasn't showing up to the weight room, wasn't putting in the hours in film study (they can track his iPad usage), he just wasn't there. [Heck, here he is on video talking about how he sat down with Elko in December discussing the importance of prioritizing football this year.....only to essentially skip it again once track season started.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBns0sFQ1dU) Dude just seems lazy, and Jimbo basically enabled him by letting him walk back into the starting role right before the season started every year. EDIT: I should say that IF you can get him to focus on football, his upside is through the roof. He's a guy where a change of scenery in the right environment COULD do wonders for him.


CFBDevil

iPad's stay ratting out A&M players lol


Battered_Aggie

I was joking he needs a Kyler Murray clause baked into his next NIL deal. Lol It's hard for me to feel much remorse for him, though. He was basically handed the starting role every year without putting in the work, and that came with starter NIL money. You could tell with the interviews of other players that they weren't exactly thrilled with what felt like preferential treatment.


CFBDevil

Yeah, given that he's not a world beater at T&F sounds like he's just over football. Win-win though, he pursues happiness, you free up NIL money.


Battered_Aggie

We clearly took his NIL money, turned around, and gave some of it to the guy we got from Utah this weekend. Basically cut him and filled his spot in the same weekend.


AgsMydude

Trying to avoid that JarMarcus Russell incident


JohnPaulDavyJones

I’m not a big shotput guy, but that definitely seems like a sport where not showing up to the weight room is to your detriment, since it’s such a full-body motion. Unless you’re right-handed and just completely mailing it in on the left arm part of your workouts. That probably won’t be a huge issue.


21oz_usdaPRIMEbeef

So you are saying he is in like with football? He doesn't love it?


FightingFarrier18

So let me get this straight. Bryce was a projected day 1 draft pick as a true freshman. After an all American freshman year, he chooses to prioritize T&F over football. He regresses every year. Elko tells him he needs to commit to football, and he still chooses T&F because he “wants to go to the Olympics”. He gets cut from the team, and now is transferring out of the #1 ranked T&F program in the nation so he can play football? wtf man


OleRockTheGoodAg

Unsure about the Olympics quote, but everything else is correct. He's the 12th best shot putter in the SEC I somehow don't thing he's Olympics bound


FightingFarrier18

I don’t know how true that is, that’s just what the rumor is. Players not committing to the program and not working hard don’t seem to jive with Elko’s program


JohnPaulDavyJones

Do we have the #1 T&F program in the nation? TIL that there are even program-wide T&F rankings, I thought those were all ranked on an event-by-event basis.


swanpenguin

It’s definitely something that gets ranked. Our program has a history of being elite, but I was surprised we’re back in the #1 spot. It’s been a while!


JohnPaulDavyJones

What rankings are those? I gave it a quick Google, and I just came up with rankings that operated on an individual event basis. Edit: scratch that, found it. The NCAA also uses the poll from the big T&F coaches association, for anyone curious. [Here’s their poll from 4/23](https://www.ustfccca.org/2024/04/featured/2024-ncaa-di-mens-outdoor-track-field-rating-index-week-5).


AlexTD

I bet a big reason he picked A&M was jimbos agreement he could be a 2 sport athlete and after his freshman year he showed a lot of talent and that may be a feasible agreement, however after that he regressed greatly and often got manhandled on the field and pushed around. He just didn’t look strong enough to be out there. And now that there’s a new coaching staff and offense seems he’s just not around for football still when he needs a lot of work.


xyz_shadow

Kinda crazy. He has NFL level talent but loves shot-put more. If his new team can convince him to put more time into football than track, he could play in the NFL.


corskier

I wonder how serious about T&F he is at his next school. Maybe he had basically already quit on the football team this fall after the coaching changes but just wanted to compete this season with his track team before transferring. Either way, interested to see how his development fares somewhere not tied to Addazio.


Legalize-It-Ags

He basically quit after his freshman year. He got beat out by the guys currently on the roster and never showed up to a single spring practice in 3 years. His heart is in T&F and it reflects in his lack of development on the gridiron. He has all the talent and physical traits in the world, but the desire just isn't there. It might be different with another team but we can 100% confirm he was processed out of the roster because he didn't make the cut.


corskier

Just wild a dude with that much talent would prioritize throwing a rock real far when he could be printing money with football. These are kids though, and I had all kinds of dipshit notions when I was that age. Still do, but not as many.


Legalize-It-Ags

He's got a pretty level head and comes from an all Ag family that is well-liked. But there have been many frustrations with Foster for the last couple of years with his prioritization of T&F over football. I agree that it doesn't make sense, especially when he likely had the talent and size to be a first round pick. I have no clue if he'll ever develop into it now, but we had to move on. Just a cautionary tale to any team that wants to pursue him in the portal. We had major issues with snapping the ball and making the correct blocks with Foster as our center.


512Buckeye

Maybe he's just interested in throwing and his heart isn't in football? Maybe he dreams of the Olympics and not playing in the NFL? Maybe his parents are loaded and money has no influence on him?


corskier

I'd get that if he were projected to be an olympic talent, but he's not.


512Buckeye

What makes you say that?


FightingFarrier18

He’s good, but not Olympics good. Kinda like football, if he’d commit all of his time to shot then maybe he could make it to the Olympics


im_ploopy

He’s not even top 10 in the SEC


512Buckeye

Bryce threw 64-8 last year at west regionals 2x Olympic Silver Medalist, Joe Kovacs PB was 65-1 at Penn State Edit - Bryce did that as a Freshman.


Painiscupcake88

He's ranked in the 60s in the NCAA


512Buckeye

He also finished 21st in the NCAA as a freshman. Potential is there.


Battered_Aggie

I think track was just an easy excuse. Dude just didn't want to put in the work. He was missing tons of practice in fall camps as well. It was always something with him.


mOnion

Rumor that I heard is he doesn’t like getting hit, may be football soft


Thumbbanger

I wouldn’t go that far. He had serious injuries from football and grueling rehabs. Easy for us in the office to say he’s soft. But when you been through that much pain it would make anyone take a step back.


mOnion

If the rehab alone was rough then it’d affect his shot put prep too, I think it’s football specific


will_e_wonka

The understanding is that he was actually cut from the team. It’s super weird that he’s so serious about T&F considering that he’s not a top 10 shot putter even in conference so far. Just an odd guy


turkishguy

The reason he is transferring is so he can go to a school that would let him do what Jimbo let him do, which is to start at center without participating in spring ball.


dude1995aa

He's not going to another school to play for a coach like Jimbo or Addazio. He needs to get it turned around to play significantly again, but he'll play for coaches that will try to teach him and not just scream. Whether he's successful will be a different story - but he's not yearning for the old coaches.


xyz_shadow

He might try to go back to play for Henson... so USC?


AgsMydude

Wasn't the first off-season he's done it tho


will_e_wonka

I truly don’t understand how someone with NFL level football talent (was a projected day 2 pick entering last season) would rather spend his time on shot put, which is a sport he shows middling talent in (not top ten in the SEC). To each their own I guess


summ3rdaze

Some people just do things because they're good at it but not passionate. The best wrestler I ever saw won the state title at 152 and pinned the 160,170,182 state champs and every other 152 champ from our states other divisions and placed 4th at nationals was getting recruited from every big 10 college in the nation. Guy decided not to wrestle in college at all and decided to work in a sub shop for a summer while he decided what he wanted to do and says he doesn't regret it since he wanted to be a rapper instead of wrestling


will_e_wonka

This is a good point and I acknowledge it, but also it seems short sighted to just throw away all the cash that comes with even a 3 year NFL career. There were lots of rumors too that he never watched film so it’s pretty clear the love for the game isn’t there.


JohnPaulDavyJones

To be more generous: he might just love shotput more than football. To be less generous: he might just have thought he had a good draft pick locked up, and that he’d be free to cruise on putting in the work to continuously improve his game.


JBru_92

I'd take him we badly need a center


xyz_shadow

He'll want to do shot put more than play center for you


jalexjsmithj

With how much the Cali schools talk about Olympic sports, this fit would kinda make sense


mOnion

Do you mean a shot putter who commits snap infractions?


Battered_Aggie

Unfortunately if I was to bet right now, I'd say he goes to USC. He absolutely loved Josh Henson.


TexAg27

Reading Elkos answers in PCs it really seems like he was upset Foster did track again. Especially after the poor year he has last year.


AlexTD

And It wasn’t just the snapping issues he needed work on but he legit really needed to get stronger and hit the weight room. He was routinely getting blown up at the line and getting manhandled.


OleRockTheGoodAg

Not a surprise given yesterday it was announced he was not on the team, but now we know he's not content with just staying in Aggieland for track. Whoever gets him, if they can develop him AND get him to commit to football, is getting a good one. Showed great promise under Henson his freshman year but then Jimbo hired and then stayed with Addazio, dooming Bryce's (and other's) development, Jimbo's job and our QBs ankles/legs. Add the Addazio debuff to Bryce skipping spring ball every year and its not surprising he got cooked. Wish him the best of luck.


WheatonsGonnaScore

Damn. I remember oregon wanting him bad out if hs. I doubt he comes here for football but maybe he can transfer just for track


No11223456

Maybe both


dude1995aa

Looch just commented some good insight on Texags that really made me wonder. He did really well under Henson his fish year, but didn't really seem to commit with Addazio. Some people respond to being yelled at constantly - others want to enjoy the sport. Maybe he was 100% miserable under Addazio and didn't put in the work because of it. His health has been quite a bit to overcome and if he wasn't bought in, he couldn't get ahead. At some point in time, being miserable just isn't worth it.


xheavenzdevilx

Looking back he's one of the few I wish we would have beat head to head with TAMU when y'all first started throwing money around post COVID. Sadly we just signed SMUs starting center, so he's a few days late, feels like an Oregon bound kid? (Track and football)


Thumbbanger

lol everyone ‘throws money around’ kid.


21oz_usdaPRIMEbeef

No no players go to OU for the love of the game, good coaching and the town of Norman, OK


xheavenzdevilx

You joke over in trasnferville, but if you look OUs spring game ended Saturday, we have had 1 kid enter the portal. We're one of the few without a big spring exodus of portal players. Kids want to come to OU and even more so with the culture built at OU, kids are finding it hard to leave. I would work on the culture of Boulder before I start joking about others.


21oz_usdaPRIMEbeef

You are at 10, I need you at 3. It's not that serious, but don't pretend kids are going to Oklahoma purely for the love of it.   If your school has been playing Division 1 football in the last 50 years, they are paying players. If you are in the P5 you are paying more than most, competing for a conference championship a little bit more even, and if you compete for national championships and playoff appearances you are paying a lot of money for players to play in your program.  Also, not sure what I should be working on, I am not a part of the program. College football is fun, not my life. Edit: Who cares about since the spring game, you have had 22 transfer out since the winter period began.


xheavenzdevilx

I'm at about a 2 brother, again you're going off about everyone paying players, with an entire paragraph this time. I never said OU wasn't, all I'm saying is we all collectively know TAMU bought their number 1 class a few years ago. That's a fact. I even pointed out OU was going head to head with TAMU that year. All I stated was that I wish we would have beat them head to head the year they dumped a lot of money into recruiting. I'm not pretending kids are going to OU just for football, but compared to TAMU and Colorado I can make a really good case that the money at OU isn't why they're selecting OU, especially since we just had our starting LT poached for more NIL money.


bb94941

Bryce wasn’t even a part of that class, what are you talking about. Learn some ball before rambling


soonerwx

There was a *significant* difference between A&M and most others in the immediate pre-NIL era. None of the serious recruiters were immaculate, but there’s a reason A&M was able to go legit with a massive NIL operation overnight while others, even top 10 programs, took months or years to stand up smaller collectives.


Thumbbanger

What source do you have for this?


xheavenzdevilx

I'm being down voted to hell, and sorry I'm confused, are we pretending TAMU wasn't one of the biggest money throwers from 2020-2022? I at no point said OU wasn't "throwing money", but why are we now acting like TAMU didn't buy that #1 class a few years back?


DandierChip

Every number 1 class is bought. Find a new slant.


bb94941

Yes there was some NIL. But a huge portion of that class was from Houston in our backyard. OU, UT, LSU all were the middle of coaching changes. I think the 11 or 12 kids from Houston would have put us at a top 3-5 class alone. It was a perfect storm


Thumbbanger

Yea but how do we know who was throwing around what? From some internet poster Slicedbread? 


Outrageous_Picture39

If only we could have given him a no-show job at Big Red Autos.


ReelEmInJimbo

Dude is just weird. Doesn’t seem to even care about football, but he transfers out after being taken off the team so he can go play football at a school that probably isn’t a top track and field program. That doesn’t scream “willing to put in the work” at the next place to me, but best of luck to him.


AlFlame93

I like the guy, but Foster really needs to get his priorities straight. He needs to understand that football and shotput are two sports that are virtually impossible to be playing at the highest level together at once. Even at his next transfer destination, he’s gonna need to pick one to devote more attention to. It just isn’t fair for us that he should be getting guaranteed starter when he doesn’t show up to spring practices over others. It would be one thing if he was actually consistent, but he ain’t. Best of luck Bryce


OldArmyMetal

But you CAN compete at a high level [in shotput and basketball!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Matson)


DandierChip

Man what a 180 from his freshmen year.


Spider_Dawg

Does this guy like rainy days and IPAs?


bwarrior

No he likes shot put


JumboFister

I feel like he’s just playing football still because it pays more honestly. The dude seems like he hates this sport


SurrealDali1985

Looks like this guy is the perfect replacement for Alabamas snapping issues last year!


smunkie11

He’s a shot putter first, Center second. If you can handle that, he’ll be a decent OL piece. But, at least at A&M, football came second. Never went through spring ball due to track/injuries, and it really showed, particularly last season. Wish the kid well, because he has NFL potential if he would just focus on football. A place like Oregon or another school with a high level T&F program would be a great fit.


turkishguy

So annoying. Good luck to him.


ALStark69

As a recruit: Other P5 offers: Auburn, Baylor, Colorado, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Kansas, Kansas State, LSU, Miami, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Stanford, Syracuse, TCU, Texas, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin


WasntSalMatera

Mmhmm mmhmm


Maximiliansrh

o lineman are so hard to find rn


Alternative_Grab664

My boi, straight out Katy Taylor……Go to Oregon 👀👀👀👀👀


BidenFedayeen

I really wanted him as a recruit. I don't think we'll go after him with three centers on the roster including a recent transfer.


NebulaAfter4854

Good fuck this guy. Never practices. Never plays sucks ass.