Be it “welcome back” or “don’t come back,” the plenty-polarized reaction regarding Everett Golson returning to campus later this month to throw at Notre Dame Pro Day has been all over message boards and social media the last week.
But whichever side of the stay-or-go argument you fall on isn’t important because either way, the return to South Bend of the prodigal quarterback is helping to fuel an important debate over players using the grad-transfer rule in the way Golson did when he left Notre Dame for Florida State in the spring of 2015.