Tag: Van Wilder

Notre Dame opponent adds Van Wilder-receiver through portal

He started college in 2016.

When Notre Dame travels to take on North Carolina State this September the Wolfpack will be playing with a new offensive weapon.  6-5, 200-pound Bradley Rozner is transferring to NC State from Rice.

Rozner brings not only size but an ability to make plays to Raleigh.  Last year he hauled in 44 receptions for 876 yards and 10 touchdowns.  For those scoring at home that’s just four yards shy of averaging 20 yards per reception.

Here’s the real kicker on Rozner, though.

2023 will be his eighth season of college football.

You read that correctly.

Eighth.

How?

He began his college career playing in junior college before transferring to Rice.  Once getting to Rice in 2019 he was granted an extra year of eligibility.  Then 2020 came and didn’t count against the eligibility of any player nationally.

Rozner then missed all of 2021 with an injury which obviously didn’t count against his eligibility.  Add it all together and he’s entering his eighth year of playing college football.

Notre Dame plays at NC State on September 9.

Somewhere Van Wilder smiles and approves of the move.

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Real life Van Wilder enters transfer portal, seeks eighth year of eligibility

Georgia State tight end Aubry Payne enters the transfer portal, seeking an eighth year of eligibility.

We have a real-life version of a Ryan Reynold’s character on our hands. Georgia State tight end Aubry Payne is trying to do his best rendition of Van Wilder. It was reported by On3 that Payne is entering the transfer portal and seeking to play for his third team.

Payne was granted an NCAA waiver for the 2022 season, his seventh year at the collegiate level that began in 2016. In the movie Van Wilder, Reynold’s character was a seventh-year senior. It appears Payne is looking to top that.

The former two-star recruiting in the 2016 class first played for Western Carolina during the 2016 season appearing in 10 games at the FCS level. He would play in one game his sophomore year before an injury sidelined Payne and he eventually left the program for Georgia State. The Georgia native would play for the Panthers from 2019 to 2022.

He accumulated 49 receptions for 529 yards and 13 touchdowns during that span. Payne appeared in just three games last season and caught one pass for three years. He will be 26 years old in October and would be older than some assistants around college football. Nebraska assistant Garret McGuire is just 24 years old.

It remains to be seen if the NCAA will once again grant Payne another season of playing college football.