The why must wait. The judgement shall, too, although many fanatics have already digested the news in their own fanatical way. A personal decision, by a teenager no less, shouldn’t receive the sort of venomous blowback accompanied by the news of another college football transfer in 2018. Too often, however, they’re cast as quitters or fame-seekers elsewhere, in different colors, in a different helmet, in front of different fans.
But Jack Tuttle left because he wanted to. Less than a year after signing his National Letter of Intent and faxing it into the Utah football offices in late December 2017, the four-star QB, the San Diego kid who said thanks-but-no-thanks to Ohio State, Alabama, Oregon, LSU, USC — the list goes on and on — left the Utah program.