SOME MORE OPINION, MOSTLY FACT
If University of Richmond linebacker Tristan Wheeler isn’t the best defensive player in the CAA, then the Albany LB who won the award would be best advised to enter the transfer portal … pronto! ... and start counting his money. Of course, we’re assuming he has remaining eligibility or can convince the NCAA he deserves a sixth or seventh year … to pad his bank account. (Did you see where a tight end at Georgia Tech petitioned the NCAA for an EIGHTH year? No wonder JMU tried to get the NCAA to ignore the rule regarding post-season eligibility. It was worth a try. You never know what they might do.) Wheeler, who has more than 400 tackles for his career, was the Spiders’ best player in 2022, too, but a quarterback passing through for one season as a graduate transfer, Reece Udinski , was handed the Dudley Award, emblematic of the state’s best, after being UR’s nominee. … . Made sense, of ...