'25 Portal Thread

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VolByLaw said:
Mike Matthews has reached Harrison Bailey status on this forum. Everyone knows he should have been the starter, except the coaching staff that watched him practice every day.
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Unlike the Hendon Hooker status, where no one knew he should of been the starter,
EVEN The coaching staff that watched him practice every day!
 
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CAVPUT said:
Ouch. Someone put oatmeal in your fur this morning?
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We all have opinions. That's mine. I haven't liked what I've seen from the WRs since he took over. Started on a high and there's been a steady decline.
 
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I know this is mainly football, but I don't care if Jefferson is a downgrade or even swap for Matthews..... The AD would be getting a 2 sport player with the other sport being our most surging program in the AD.....

Like this is a no brainer. We all want football team to be better with portal guys, but if this move is even swap but helps Tony V, why the b!tching and moaning?
 
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Weezer said:
We all have opinions. That's mine. I haven't liked what I've seen from the WRs since he took over. Started on a high and there's been a steady decline.
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WR have been open, in all honesty. lack of creativity in PC is criminal. none of it matters as we're rolling with what we have.
 
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Weezer said:
Makes it sound like our coaches were caught with their pants down. Not what we've been told about them having a "strategy".

Still feels like there's a lot to the story we're not hearing. This offseason, thus far, has been strange. I get we needed to shed numbers to make room, but I doubt the plan was to clear the WR room to do that.
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Given that they’ve been trying for a week to keep Matthews, this isn’t news. We already know they didn’t want to lose him. It’s pretty obvious that Webb and Nimrod weren’t surprise losses or concerns. And they didn’t do much to try to keep Squirrel. Spillman wasn’t on scholarship (which AP has mentioned) and was never going to play, much less start.

Matthews is the surprise. Which we all knew before this VQ report. Losing him means we go from needing a couple of depth pieces needing 3 dudes, at least one who can start on the outside.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Given that they’ve been trying for a week to keep Matthews, this isn’t news. We already know they didn’t want to lose him. It’s pretty obvious that Webb and Nimrod weren’t surprise losses or concerns. And they didn’t do much to try to keep Squirrel. Spillman wasn’t on scholarship (which AP has mentioned) and was never going to play, much less start.

Matthews is the surprise. Which we all knew before this VQ report. Losing him means we go from needing a couple of depth pieces needing 3 dudes, at least one who can start on the outside.
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You wrote a lot for a guy who never entered the portal
 
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NighthawkVol said:
No, we recruited him to get his brother. But he wasn’t on scholarship. Austin Price has stated that.
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When he first came here, he was listed as a scholarship player. If that changed this past season, I'm unaware of it. But at one point he counted toward our numbers.
 
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Weezer said:
When he first came here, he was listed as a scholarship player. If that changed this past season, I'm unaware of it. But at one point he counted toward our numbers.
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Price didn’t say whether he was always a non-scholarship player or not. We really don’t have any way of knowing since the school doesn’t actually release that information. I think there were some assumptions made that he was.

Regardless, he’s not talented enough to be anything more than a walk-on. He didn’t do anything at Lipscomb and we only brought him in to get his brother. So calling him a “loss” would be like calling Dayton Snead a “loss” if he transferred (Snead might’ve been higher on the depth chart, actually).
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Given that they’ve been trying for a week to keep Matthews, this isn’t news. We already know they didn’t want to lose him. It’s pretty obvious that Webb and Nimrod weren’t surprise losses or concerns. And they didn’t do much to try to keep Squirrel. Spillman wasn’t on scholarship (which AP has mentioned) and was never going to play, much less start.

Matthews is the surprise. Which we all knew before this VQ report. Losing him means we go from needing a couple of depth pieces needing 3 dudes, at least one who can start on the outside.
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Given our reluctance to play younger kids, I wonder if we have someone in the incoming class who can be that outside guy and if the staff will play them? Any of our recruits have the speed to threaten a secondary or are they all a type of possession receiver?
 
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CAVPUT said:
Given our reluctance to play younger kids, I wonder if we have someone in the incoming class who can be that outside guy and if the staff will play them? Any of our recruits have the speed to threaten a secondary or are they all a type of possession receiver?
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Jackson is fast. Dodson is fast and more quick twitch. Smith is a big strong WR who doesn’t have elite speed, but is fast enough. I’d compare him more to a Tillman type. Jackson is a well rounded, Meachem type. Dodson is a slot.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
Jackson is fast. Dodson is fast and more quick twitch. Smith is a big strong WR who doesn’t have elite speed, but is fast enough. I’d compare him more to a Tillman type. Jackson is a well rounded, Meachem type. Dodson is a slot.
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Welp. Could starting some/all of the freshmen be any worse than what we saw this year? With what we got from Thornton and Brazzell, I think I'd prefer to take my chances with youth to be honest.
 
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CAVPUT said:
Didn't White have a shoulder injury to the point he couldn't raise his arm overhead and he still played? Thought I'd heard something like that on a podcast or call in show. Was Matthews worse? Different?
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Yes, just from what I gathered.

Squirrel was a senior betting it all on this season, though. Matthews is a freshman that has at least two more years.
 
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TGMT said:
Interesting. So you’re arguing that when Bank’s defense got boat raced by Mizzou in 2023 and South Carolina in 2022, it was because Mizzou and South Carolina had much better players than us.

Surely it couldn’t have had anything to do with our poor fundamentals, busted coverages, and making zero defensive adjustments.
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Do at least try reading my response next time. I know it's hard without pictures, but you can do it little buddy!!!

DeusExMachina said:
Not going to waste my time beating a dead horse on your other nonsense, since that was a different team/year/players and isn't germane to the conversation.
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GVol1966 said:
Unlike the Hendon Hooker status, where no one knew he should of been the starter,
EVEN The coaching staff that watched him practice every day!
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I see people use this argument all the time. It's been widely talked about by people who went and watched practice during that time that Joe looked much better than Hendon when they both first got here.

It wasn't until Hendon played and we realized he was a gamer that it was obvious who to start from there.
 
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