'25 Portal Thread

[Enki_Amenra]

Why does anyone think it's Tate? What started the fire?

 

[TrippieRedd]

Why does anyone think it's Tate? What started the fire?

Someone before me, then I ran with it. Then 99vawl liked my post.

Tate is the only OSU player that Pope follows. If it’s not him, oh well.

If it’s Innis, cool. If it’s none of them, cool.

 

[MarcoVol]

Why does anyone think it's Tate? What started the fire?

 

[Type Orange+]

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It was always burning.

 

[Blake25p]

Setting yourself up to be crucified on here if it doesn’t pan out.

 

[jp1]

Setting yourself up to be crucified on here if it doesn’t pan out.

He didn't say who it was. Not that that will matter.

 

[Type Orange+]

 

[Jimmy Football]

Just need some gears and some flames and we’re in business!

 

[jasonvol18]

Setting yourself up to be crucified on here if it doesn’t pan out.

Does it honestly matter what a bunch of people from a message board think about you? I'm guessing no!

 

[vol94]

Irrelevant. You only play who is on your schedule. We were 15th nationally on offense. That’s a fact regardless of what narrative you or anyone else wants to bring. No our offense wasn’t what it needed to be. But it was good none the less.

Like I said every team benefits from weaker teams. Stop using it as a negative against us. It’s dumb.

Offense was not good this yr. It was good enough to get into playoffs but not a good defense, at least not my definition of good.

The passing game was suspect so Heup relied on the defense and running game.

 

[D3Athlete]

Setting yourself up to be crucified on here if it doesn’t pan out.

You are right sadly. He is going to be, but if people have paid attention. He is right most of the time. Hopefully people don’t run him off in case it doesn’t come to fruition

 

[GVol1966]

There are good WRs behind Tate and Innis, as well.

Some posters will make a stink if the "splash" doesn't occur. They'll use it to attack our "insiders" like they always do.

We just really need some quality players from these teams to enter the portal because we have more needs than WR, and very little quality left in the portal.

Attack or just keeping it real?
If the insider clearly stated there’d be a splash player and it doesn’t happen,
Then the insider was clearly wrong

 

[Heupel's Offseason Beard]

What’s the logic here? Why would Sanders care if Mauigoa is here? Sanders is a prototypical LT who will play RT as a freshman because Heard comes back at LT. Then Sanders will swing over to LT. Mauigoa is a G/RT, who will likely go pro after 2025.

Has nothing to do with their position at all. NIL is tight already and we wouldn't have pushed as hard for Sanders if we had to pay Mauigoa what he wanted. Our desperation affected how much Spyre was willing to spend on Sanders. There's the logic.

 

[wellsea180]

I'm extremely disappointed in us as a fanbase....we usually dream so big. All this arguing about Tate and Innis and no one has suggested Jeremiah Smith. Let's think bigger so we can be disappointed by whoever it is.

 

[MarcoVol]

I'm extremely disappointed in us as a fanbase....we usually dream so big. All this arguing about Tate and Innis and no one has suggested Jeremiah Smith. Let's think bigger so we can be disappointed by whoever it is.

People are saying he threw up the Vol sign after that TD

 

[wellsea180]

People are saying he threw up the Vol sign after that TD

Love the energy

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Just need some gears and some flames and we’re in business!

 

[OmegaVoLL]

Big energy

 

[Weezer]

Attack or just keeping it real?
If the insider clearly stated there’d be a splash player and it doesn’t happen,
Then the insider was clearly wrong

No one is always right. It's okay to be wrong. The sting of being wrong is normally enough. People don't need to pile on by crying about it. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. The world doesn't end. We'll still play football next season. The team may or not be as good as we want. We won't know until the season is played. And being disappointed is okay. Just don't attack someone because they happened to be wrong.

 

[Jimmy Football]

 

[NighthawkVol]

Has nothing to do with their position at all. NIL is tight already and we wouldn't have pushed as hard for Sanders if we had to pay Mauigoa what he wanted. Our desperation affected how much Spyre was willing to spend on Sanders. There's the logic.

Gotcha.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

 

[dmwvol12]

No one is always right. It's okay to be wrong. The sting of being wrong is normally enough. People don't need to pile on by crying about it. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. The world doesn't end. We'll still play football next season. The team may or not be as good as we want. We won't know until the season is played. And being disappointed is okay. Just don't attack someone because they happened to be wrong.

Well said and they might have not even been wrong. Could be the information provided was spot at the time and they changed their minds. Something we simple humans do sometimes. As we say the situation is fluid. Would be nice if we didn’t run off any more posters that obviously have some real information. We seem to have a nasty habit of burning people at the stake because a college kid changes his mind.

 

[Vol423]

Stupid
Not one reason ever mentioned to believe it’s him

I'm aware.

 

[HawkVol2213]

Let’s be real…. Why would Tate ever come here? Would that not be a horrible decision on his part?
Potential to be a clear number 2 for OSU next year and with how they distribute the ball he would get more catches there than he would here. Smith, Egbuka, and Tate all had more catches this year than our leading pass catcher (Bru with 39)