Right, I realize that..
It’s has everything to do with me being petty!
They mistreated this kid. Let’s see.. Central Florida convinces recruits to commit to them based on current coaching staff. Then the college fires the coaching staff and implements a totally diff scheme, structure, and attitudes. (well within their rights).
BUT! When recruits decide this isn’t what they signed up for and start transferring.. the college blocks or halts these players from leaving. I suppose this is within the college’s right also, but it sure neglects the students/players individual rights. Just sounds really shady on Central Florida’s part.
Then the college wants use the young player as an example and cut playing time when his not happy with the coaching staff. What’s the player/student suppose to do? Quit and lose his scholarship? Central Florida had Tristen by the balls and they knew it.. that’s dirty. Then they hurt his draft stock to the NFL by allowing this fallacy that HE has “character issues”! Yeah, You can say I take exception to this. So I’m allowed to be petty.. many folks on this board are far more petty over way less.
Wow. I'm a UCF grad and there is a lot here that needs clarification. Frost left, he was not fired. UCF tried to keep him. They parted on such good terms that Frost came back to coach the team for their bowl game after being named coach of Nebraska.
The decision to block transfers to certain schools is a common practice amongst all universities and is in place to protect the Universities from tampering. Teams do this all the time when a coach goes to another school. Scott Frost blocked a running back transferring to other big ten school from Nebraska last year. It is an NCAA approved rule to help prevent tampering with players on scholarship at other Universities. All universities use this.
UCF players were allowed to transfer to any other school they wanted with the teams blessing except Nebraska. Hill's request to transfer was blocked, but it was surprising to no one. Hill still could have transferred anywhere in the country and even briefly entertained it, but decided to stay at UCF. There was not any malice at the time he made his decision, as he had a lot of very close friends on the team.
Last season boils down to Hill not quite meshing with Randy Shannon and the new 4-3 scheme after two years as a nose guard in a 3-4. He was not in the starting line-up most weeks because of that. He did play as much as the starters. Shannon never once bad mouthed Hill and Hill never bad mouthed the coaches (at least not publicly). I heard rumblings that Hill sulked some in practice, but it never showed on the field. Shannon just felt Hill could do better, that's it. There was no malice.
Honestly, after watching every game he was in, the second round was his absolute ceiling. Had he gone to Nebraska he would have stayed a 3-4 Nose Guard and never been on Dallas's radar as anything other than a late round projection.