'25 Portal Thread

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Weezer said:
Honestly, not sure we see any players from tonight's two teams that hit the portal that we will pursue. I think our best options would potentially come from Texas and OSU.
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Jeremiah love is a tremendous athlete but he’s not goin anywhere. Christian gray from notre dame is a baller if he wanted a pay raise he’d be worth it. Really all of notre dames dbs played well. Not sure if they just weren’t tested or they’re that well coached. Bryce young is a talented freshman defender. Penn state has a good offensive line if any of them went portaling they may be worth a look.
 
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Adam Sandler said:
Jeremiah love is a tremendous athlete but he’s not goin anywhere. Christian gray from notre dame is a baller if he wanted a pay raise he’d be worth it. Really all of notre dames dbs played well. Not sure if they just weren’t tested or they’re that well coached. Bryce young is a talented freshman defender. Penn state has a good offensive line if any of them went portaling they may be worth a look.
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I think people misunderstood my comment. Most of Notre Dame and Penn State's best players will either graduate or be starters next season. Those players can't/won't hit the portal. The players who will hit the portal are those seeking playing time, and from those (looking at their rosters), I don't really see anyone of note. Texas and OSU have better reserves who might decide to transfer, on their rosters. Hopefully I'm wrong about ND and PSU though, because we can use a couple more quality players.
 
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Adam Sandler said:
Jeremiah love is a tremendous athlete but he’s not goin anywhere. Christian gray from notre dame is a baller if he wanted a pay raise he’d be worth it. Really all of notre dames dbs played well. Not sure if they just weren’t tested or they’re that well coached. Bryce young is a talented freshman defender. Penn state has a good offensive line if any of them went portaling they may be worth a look.
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Christian Gray got picked on every game i watched. It was tough to watch. I am glad he got the interception to set up the game winner.
 
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vol94 said:
Just a quick question and not being a jerk. Do you think Heup wants to win a natty?

IMO, Heup is competitive and driven to be the best coach in the country. He’s 46 yrs old with another 15-20 plus years left in his career, maybe longer.
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That requires you to make hard decisions and be willing to adapt.

IMO--- Did you see our Vanilla offense this season that teams were starting to figure out and scheme against? Did you see our WR's struggle to get separation, drop catchable balls, and now we have a mass exodus because there's smoke on them not gelling with the position coach? Nico many times running for his life? Yes we still won 10 games, but this offense took a step back this season of what we saw before.
We are getting subpar development on the Oline with what we are recruiting in, needing to continually grab from the portal for starters, so changes need to be made... Our defense had a ton of raw talent to mask a DC who seemingly refused to make adjustments during the game or scheme differently based on the opponent... That's why the better teams figured out what to do and had success... LB's were out of position and stuggled to pick up coverage, getting burned regularly after teams adjusted and figured it out the second half of the season. Pili going down killed us on that front...Sure I think he wants to win a natty, several in fact, but now the shine is a bit worn off and he needs to continue to adapt, adjust, make hard/not fun decisions, and move forward as this new NIL game of college football evolves.
I see other teams making adjustments, I do not at this point see Heup making adjustments. As of today we have the same staff, and maybe 2 new players (1 Online/1 unproven WR) out of the portal that will make a difference when we need to replace/upgrade Cooper, Spraggins, and Campbell. We have the SEC player of the year at RB gone and only young talent at this point to replace. At WR we need an experienced, proven player that gets separation and changes games. We definitely have talent according to the star rankings, but most of it is unproven or still getting settled.

Next season FL will be greatly improved, GA will be as good or better due to NIL, AL will continue to pull in talent and most likely settle in and be better, LSU will be better, SC is coming on strong/wouldn't want to play them, TX reloading, TAMU reloading, Auburn will be in year two of stockpiling elite talent top to bottom, Ole Miss continues to try to portal shop and isn't going away, etc...We seem to be treading water at this point. Yes, all this is debatable, just my opinion based on what I see with the changes they are making.
Honestly, If this is what we are going to ride with into next season, we will drop FL, AL, GA, and OK will be 50/50--- that's not going to make the playoff/compete for a championship.

we'll see how it all plays out----- I really like Heup, but I am not seeing going into year 5 what it takes to get to the elite tier level yet from him and the AD, except higher prices on games/concessions, etc... If we can at least replace the talent we lost, then that is definitely a step in the right direction.
 
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volinbama256 said:
That requires you to make hard decisions and be willing to adapt.

IMO--- Did you see our Vanilla offense this season that teams were starting to figure out and scheme against? Did you see our WR's struggle to get separation, drop catchable balls, and now we have a mass exodus because there's smoke on them not gelling with the position coach? Nico many times running for his life? Yes we still won 10 games, but this offense took a step back this season of what we saw before.
We are getting subpar development on the Oline with what we are recruiting in, needing to continually grab from the portal for starters, so changes need to be made... Our defense had a ton of raw talent to mask a DC who seemingly refused to make adjustments during the game or scheme differently based on the opponent... That's why the better teams figured out what to do and had success... LB's were out of position and stuggled to pick up coverage, getting burned regularly after teams adjusted and figured it out the second half of the season. Pili going down killed us on that front...Sure I think he wants to win a natty, several in fact, but now the shine is a bit worn off and he needs to continue to adapt, adjust, make hard/not fun decisions, and move forward as this new NIL game of college football evolves.
I see other teams making adjustments, I do not at this point see Heup making adjustments. As of today we have the same staff, and maybe 2 new players (1 Online/1 unproven WR) out of the portal that will make a difference when we need to replace/upgrade Cooper, Spraggins, and Campbell. We have the SEC player of the year at RB gone and only young talent at this point to replace. At WR we need an experienced, proven player that gets separation and changes games. We definitely have talent according to the star rankings, but most of it is unproven or still getting settled.

Next season FL will be greatly improved, GA will be as good or better due to NIL, AL will continue to pull in talent and most likely settle in and be better, LSU will be better, SC is coming on strong/wouldn't want to play them, TX reloading, TAMU reloading, Auburn will be in year two of stockpiling elite talent top to bottom, Ole Miss continues to try to portal shop and isn't going away, etc...We seem to be treading water at this point. Yes, all this is debatable, just my opinion based on what I see with the changes they are making.
Honestly, If this is what we are going to ride with into next season, we will drop FL, AL, GA, and OK will be 50/50--- that's not going to make the playoff/compete for a championship.

we'll see how it all plays out----- I really like Heup, but I am not seeing going into year 5 what it takes to get to the elite tier level yet from him and the AD, except higher prices on games/concessions, etc... If we can at least replace the talent we lost, then that is definitely a step in the right direction.
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Good points. So how do you take more kids from the portal when we only have 1-2 spots (scholarships) rt now?

Should he ask some in the roster to leave? Or, did he make a mistake in singing 24 kids from high school?

Coaching staff- I agree that w head deficiencies this yr with our O line, LBs, and receivers (passing game). Was it personnel or scheme?
 
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volinbama256 said:
That requires you to make hard decisions and be willing to adapt.

IMO--- Did you see our Vanilla offense this season that teams were starting to figure out and scheme against? Did you see our WR's struggle to get separation, drop catchable balls, and now we have a mass exodus because there's smoke on them not gelling with the position coach? Nico many times running for his life? Yes we still won 10 games, but this offense took a step back this season of what we saw before.
We are getting subpar development on the Oline with what we are recruiting in, needing to continually grab from the portal for starters, so changes need to be made... Our defense had a ton of raw talent to mask a DC who seemingly refused to make adjustments during the game or scheme differently based on the opponent... That's why the better teams figured out what to do and had success... LB's were out of position and stuggled to pick up coverage, getting burned regularly after teams adjusted and figured it out the second half of the season. Pili going down killed us on that front...Sure I think he wants to win a natty, several in fact, but now the shine is a bit worn off and he needs to continue to adapt, adjust, make hard/not fun decisions, and move forward as this new NIL game of college football evolves.
I see other teams making adjustments, I do not at this point see Heup making adjustments. As of today we have the same staff, and maybe 2 new players (1 Online/1 unproven WR) out of the portal that will make a difference when we need to replace/upgrade Cooper, Spraggins, and Campbell. We have the SEC player of the year at RB gone and only young talent at this point to replace. At WR we need an experienced, proven player that gets separation and changes games. We definitely have talent according to the star rankings, but most of it is unproven or still getting settled.

Next season FL will be greatly improved, GA will be as good or better due to NIL, AL will continue to pull in talent and most likely settle in and be better, LSU will be better, SC is coming on strong/wouldn't want to play them, TX reloading, TAMU reloading, Auburn will be in year two of stockpiling elite talent top to bottom, Ole Miss continues to try to portal shop and isn't going away, etc...We seem to be treading water at this point. Yes, all this is debatable, just my opinion based on what I see with the changes they are making.
Honestly, If this is what we are going to ride with into next season, we will drop FL, AL, GA, and OK will be 50/50--- that's not going to make the playoff/compete for a championship.

we'll see how it all plays out----- I really like Heup, but I am not seeing going into year 5 what it takes to get to the elite tier level yet from him and the AD, except higher prices on games/concessions, etc... If we can at least replace the talent we lost, then that is definitely a step in the right direction.
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The fear of Florida baffles me.... Yes Lagway is coming back, but Napier is still the coach. He tries to be the smartest coach in the room and do things "by the chart"..... He's not that good.
 
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