'25 Portal Thread

[Jackcrevol]

Edit: I’ll try to keep this post updated with guys were either rumored or confirmed interested in.

OFFENSE

Running Backs
Fluff Blothwell (South Alabama)- per Twitter

Wide Receivers
Isaiah Horton (Miami) - per @dascoop
Micah Hudson (Texas Tech) - per Rivals

Offensive Line
TJ Shamnahan (Texas A&M) - per @dascoop
Wendell Moe (Arizona) - per Twitter
Naeer Jackson (FlU) - per 247
Josh Thompson (Northwestern) - per VQ


DEFENSE

Defensive Line
Travis Shaw (UNC) - per @dascoop
James Thompson (Wisconsin) - per On3
David Blay (Louisiana Tech) - per 247
Jay’viar Suggs (LSU) - Per Ryan Callahan

move to change name to porthole thread

 

[bpalmer28]

Funny how the team with the most portal players are the only undefeated team.

Didn’t Florida State and Colorado have a bunch? And LSU?

 

[rockytop25]

Ole Miss improved in almost every category despite losing several key players to the first l draft/portal.

Seemed like it worked out well for them.

Lost to a 4-8 Kentucky team, 8-4 LSU team and 7-5 Florida team

So no, it didn’t work out well for them

 

[T2P_Priceless]

Georgia's 2025 recruiting class per On3: 93.068 points
Tennessee's 2025 recrutiing class: 91.702 points.

Fewer than 2 points separate the two classes but they are serious about winning championships and I guess we're just dicking around.

I’m not the one arguing at Tennessee is serious or not because I know they are

However, 1.3 points average per player is a good amount, especially when you’re at that top-tier

 

[RandomUTfan]

I’m not the one arguing at Tennessee is serious or not because I know they are

However, 1.3 points average per player is a good amount, especially when you’re at that top-tier

That's just a bad argument. It's not at all when the transfer portal exists and Georgia loses guys they didn't want to lose to Texas and we're bringing in guys like Lance Heard and Jermod McCoy.

 

[RandomUTfan]

For a group who obsesses over recruiting and portal rankings, you'd think you'd expect more from that #1 portal ranking that everyone was raving about last year

All the evidence we have points towards recruiting rankings being virtually irrelevant in this new era of College Football. They just aren't that important and these services are doing an awful job evaluating and ranking guys out of the portal. None of these pay websites' rankings should be used to make any kind of point anymore. It's just a stupid thing to even bring up. Some teams, like Alabama for instance, is spending big NIL $ to land stud recruiting classes just to see these guys transfer out a year or two later for greener pastures. You're making a huge mistake if you use recruiting rankings to prove absolutely anything.

But hey, at least Alabama was able to win the commitment of the coveted punter transfer from the Colorado School of Mines.

 

[Adam Sandler]

Dante Dowdell in the portal


I would take him.

Oh yeah? How would you take him?

 

[MarcoVol]

Dante Dowdell in the portal


I would take him.

Think he wants to be the 3rd option at RB?

 

[jmacvols1]

np

 

[RandomUTfan]

Alabama is really racking up in the portal. Elite Longsnapper. Vote for Pedro.

 

[PowerT.]

On Oklahoma WR Jalil Farooq

Tennessee is involved but things are just beginning with him

Others teams with heavy interest are FSU and Maryland

- Brian Dohn (247)

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Kiffin trying to buy another shot at the playoffs. Since that worked so well this season. Between this and the Bama CB, he’s tampering like hell.

Side note, how is Ole Miss throwing around more cash in the portal than even the big dogs? Kind of insane how Kiffin has amassed such a war chest at a mid-level SEC program historically.

 

[Orange.]

You are definitely one of the top 3 worst posters on this board.

Bruh is a troll. How do so few people know that?

 

[RandomUTfan]

Thompson sounded like it was going to be real tough for anyone to beat Tennessee after his visit. "You other schools, man, you've got to get a good bargain, man," Thompson told GoVols247's Ryan Callahan after his visit. "You've got to do good, because Tennessee, man, it's a real kept-up place, man. I like it a lot here, so it's good. …"

 

[PYSCHO]

4.5ypc

Looking at his stats, he has gotten worse every year.

He does play for Maryland and they get worse every year

 

[RandomUTfan]

I wonder if we'd take Thompson and Suggs. My guess all along has been that we're just taking one IDL.

 

[SoilVol]

I really believe that was the plan, he didn't come and say it me but I was thinking that. Oh for sure, definitely will. He said his phone has been blowing up. Its a couple teams I have in mind, but I'll wait to reveal who I'm thinking lol. I'll ask him when he comes home for Christmas and see if I'm right.

I'm still crossing fingers for VaTech

 

[VolByLaw]

I do think they take a WR and RB eventually

-AP

 

[Go Fight Win]

-AP

Has felt this way for a few days now

They will take their time IMO. Must be perfect fits.

IOL and DT need to move quick that market is tough

 

[bpalmer28]

For those of you who want a WR…

RaRa Thomas hit the portal a couple hours ago.

 

[hjeagle1vol]

Thank you @Freak for providing such an amazing free site for Volnation

 

[GVol1966]

Transfers are fools gold. We've relied on it too much to date and should far less going forward.

Transfers in the starting 22 by the team's ahead of us in the CFB Playoffs:

1. Oregon - 14
2. Georgia - 2
3. Texas - 6
4. Penn State - 3
5. Notre Dame - 4
6. Ohio State - 3

We have 8.

We need to recruit high school better and develop better. Not do more the portal.

So number 1 oregan has the most.

Ok completely shoots down your theory.

 

[marcusluvsvols]

Thank you @Freak for providing such an amazing free site for Volnation

Yep thanks Freak. I posted this guys exit interview with AP from youtube a few pages back. He loved Tennessee. If we really want him, I believe he is ours for the taking. Seems like a sharp kid too. I know Coach Garner is a bit of a hardazz...but these Dlinemen would be foolish to not play for him given a chance. We will likely put 4 maybe 5 defensive linemen in the NFL this season between the draft and UFA contracts. Coach probably has the best track record of any Dline coach in FBS.

 

[LittleVol]

Has felt this way for a few days now

They will take their time IMO. Must be perfect fits.

IOL and DT need to move quick that market is tough

Oh you mean because we kept losing RBs and WRs to the transfer portal?

Good call, genius! Nostradamus is blushing..

 

[LittleVol]

So number 1 oregan has the most.

Ok completely shoots down your theory.

No.
That’s one team. And that coach is only in year 2

Check back in Tennessee 2022 team and see how many starter they had via transfer portal.
That was year two for Heupel.

You get the right transfers and you can have a quick turnaround but you need to be getting high level HS talent that is maturing behind those immediate older transfer guys.

Because you don’t want your roster to entirely depend on transfers. Then they just become merchants. And with that you could go 11-2 one year and then 4-8 the next because you haven’t been building a program or the right culture.