We are already behind in the portal-

#126
#126
savannahfan said:
There are many programs out there that will dispute this.
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Let's look at the team that just beat the snot out of us

QB
Rb
Center (all American)
Safety (all American)
And a te (hes only 2nd string)

They only added five guys from the portal, but I'd say they had something to do with what that team did this year
 
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#128
#128
buckfan said:
Pretty sure OSU started 2 transfers on defense and 1 on offense lol. You’re just making things up.
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Not sure who the 2nd defensive guy is after Caleb, but it was three on offense (howard, judkins and Seth til he got hurt )
And it would have been 4 had their all American LT not gone down vs Oregon.
 
#129
#129
buckfan said:
The lineup of OSU. It’s practically all home grown players
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Defense has 10 (maybe 9 as a DB may have transferred two years ago)

Offense, it was 7 or 8 depending when the game was

To start the year they had a LT, Center, QB and RB as portal

LT went down and center with injuries, so vs Tennessee it was 9 home grown or 10 if henderson was in the game instead of judkins
 
#136
#136
loservol said:
Amazing that some on here are still in denial about how embarrassing this blowout lost to Ohio State really was for the state and fans.
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All you buncha wussies will get over it just like OSU got over getting spanked by Clemson 31-0 in the first round playoffs in 2016. And Oklahoma got over a 63-28 waxing in 2019 in the first round.

If you got embarrassed over a football game, lol. If you're still embarrassed, good.
 
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#137
#137
McDad said:
Until someone portals their way to a championship, it isn't proven as a viable strategy to become elite. About the closest I've seen is when a HC gets another job and takes the team with him.
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Do we know for sure a portal addition hasn't made the difference already? How do you measure that exactly? Is there a minimum number of portal players to qualify? Can one portal addition make enough of a difference over a season to qualify? What a bout a single portal player coming up huge in one game that launches a team, does that count?

Not picking on you, but you have to admit that's a hard thing to guage and it would seem to require far more data than we presently have.
 
#138
#138
m1al said:
Do we know for sure a portal addition hasn't made the difference already? How do you measure that exactly? Is there a minimum number of portal players to qualify? Can one portal addition make enough of a difference over a season to qualify? What a bout a single portal player coming up huge in one game that launches a team, does that count?

Not picking on you, but you have to admit that's a hard thing to guage and it would seem to require far more data than we presently have.
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I agree is difficult to assess the impact. I kept my reply to quantifiable "championships". So far, the portal has not been the secret to winning it all.
 
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#139
McDad said:
I agree is difficult to assess the impact. I kept my reply to quantifiable "championships". So far, the portal has not been the secret to winning it all.
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I don't know, literally one player could make or may have already made the difference in a given season.
 
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#141
McDad said:
Can you recall a portal xfer(s) who have joined a team and took it to win a championship?
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No, personally I can't. I do good to follow my favorite team (UT) and it sure didn't happen to us.

My point, I guess, if it hasn't happened, it will. The portal is part of the game now, a BIG part. Coaching staffs slow to embrace it WILL NOT help there teams.
 
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#142
m1al said:
No, personally I can't. I do good to follow my favorite team (UT) and it sure didn't happen to us.

My point, I guess, if it hasn't happened, it will. The portal is part of the game now, a BIG part. Coaching staffs slow to embrace it WILL NOT help there teams.
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I agree. It is likely to happen. The portal is new and the sample size is small so i need to be careful about making absolutist pronouncments. But iterating my other post, it has yet to be proven to be a viable strategy for winning championships.
 
#144
#144
Are we going to do any after Christmas shopping or what? I mean I didnt think we did well enough in recruit rankings (#11) that we can go soft on the portal?

We REALLY NEED a hot WR. Nico needs reliable targets who can actually get open and catch the ball.
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#147
Good grief. And we just lost Gaston Moore to the portal. I don’t understand what coach Heupel and this staff are doing right now. I have to just hope they have a good plan. Because this isn’t gonna cut it.
 
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