Football Transfer Portal Thread

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Originally Posted by DEDawg

How do you come to that conclusion? Shapen threw for 12.5 YPC, 2:1 TD ratio and the worst OL I?ve ever seen at State. Rogers threw for 9.5 YPC his best year here with Charles Cross protecting his blind side. He did have 4:1 ratio which is excellent but also attributed to literally never taking downfield shots.

It?s hard to compare them because the offenses were so different but Shapen takes a ton of hate around here thats unwarranted because of how bad our OL is. If he had legs he would have been pretty good here but he didnt so he is equal as WR imo when it comes to mobility.

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Shapen more mobile than Will. Shapen would hold it too long(not that he had a ton of time).

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

In today's day and age of college football, if you're not producing in some form or fashion you're taking up a spot. Jimothy wouldn't have accepted being a backup and learning the Tackle position so he needed to leave.

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Absolutely.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

I think that's part of it and I also think our offense was so predicated on the deep ball that if it wasn't there, Blake got nervous and didn't want to work through the read.

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We really only had two consistent receivers too. Thompson and Evans. Ayden got better though. But we need more out of them which is probably why Bumphis isn't here anymore.

I read this week that over 1200 "players" who entered the portal have not found a home. The NFL has an active roster of 53 players and 16 on the reserve squad, and play far more games. Why have the powers to be that be required 105 to be on scholarship in today's out-of-control pay-to-play portal world?

With many of the 1200 finding no landing spots even at lower divisions, why bother with the numbers? A "Student Athlete" at his 4th school or so, with eligibility remaining, probably has a suspect major and is making little progress toward a degree. This is a mess. Put them on a binding contract with league salary caps, as this is now nothing but professional sports, whether we like it or not.

A contract with salary cap sounds like the answer with football and men's basketball. And it probably will head that way in some fashion. The issue is very complicated though as a majority are public universities and there are a lot of guidelines and regulations that do not mesh well with a "pro" model for select sports being tied to the university. Yes we can look at "club" model but there are tons of legal issues that still would have to be adjudicated first in regards to Federal and State regulations. CBA that will be approved by all universities and players? Who is technically the owner? How much profit can they make? Use the Green Bay model for ownership? I don't see a good step forward still for a while, inside 5 years would be a big ask I think.

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Originally Posted by Really Clark?

A contract with salary cap sounds like the answer with football and men's basketball. And it probably will head that way in some fashion. The issue is very complicated though as a majority are public universities and there are a lot of guidelines and regulations that do not mesh well with a "pro" model for select sports being tied to the university. Yes we can look at "club" model but there are tons of legal issues that still would have to be adjudicated first in regards to Federal and State regulations. CBA that will be approved by all universities and players? Who is technically the owner? How much profit can they make? Use the Green Bay model for ownership? I don't see a good step forward still for a while, inside 5 years would be a big ask I think.

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Government did what government does. 17 sh!t up.

Not thrilled with how we just mailed it in here at the end and seem to be content with what we have.

OM is still trying to get guys. LSU is doing the same. Even if you don't think it's a difference maker, the rosters are 105 now so you can afford to roll the dice and see if anyone hits.

Yea this is a mid class. You're basically training a bunch of guys for 2027 and if they do well they're gonna look for a bigger payday elsewhere. Horrendous management.

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Originally Posted by KOdawg1

Not thrilled with how we just mailed it in here at the end and seem to be content with what we have.

OM is still trying to get guys. LSU is doing the same. Even if you don't think it's a difference maker, the rosters are 105 now so you can afford to roll the dice and see if anyone hits.

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Yep, Sneh just replaced James. Still ultra thin at OT. Any injuries on the OL will again cripple us.

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Originally Posted by KOdawg1

Not thrilled with how we just mailed it in here at the end and seem to be content with what we have.

OM is still trying to get guys. LSU is doing the same. Even if you don't think it's a difference maker, the rosters are 105 now so you can afford to roll the dice and see if anyone hits.

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Very disappointing. Cannot believe we had $4M to spend on one LT and after missing did not have contingencies ready to go for 5 other guys. We have the money why in the world are we sitting on it

We are building a war chest for 2030 to make a run right after the apocalypse occurs.

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Originally Posted by DEDawg

Very disappointing. Cannot believe we had $4M to spend on one LT and after missing did not have contingencies ready to go for 5 other guys. We have the money why in the world are we sitting on it

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Because we want quality not just quantity. There isn't much left in the portal. Luke Work for example was rated a top 12 portal prospect by someone. That gives you an idea of the quality that is out there. We also have limited roster spots too.

It just makes more sense to save the money now and try to use it on a big fish next year at this point.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Because we want quality not just quantity. There isn't much left in the portal. Luke Work for example was rated a top 12 portal prospect by someone. That gives you an idea of the quality that is out there. We also have limited roster spots too.

It just makes more sense to save the money now and try to use it on a big fish next year at this point.

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Yeah. It's a whole lot more complicated than just go get a LT. Or any position for that matter.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Because we want quality not just quantity. There isn't much left in the portal. Luke Work for example was rated a top 12 portal prospect by someone. That gives you an idea of the quality that is out there. We also have limited roster spots too.

It just makes more sense to save the money now and try to use it on a big fish next year at this point.

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That answers the money question but not the contingency one. If we went all in on Seaton with no backups that?s crazy, we should have had multiple guys ready to go with offers when he moved on. We need to be more organized than this.

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Originally Posted by DEDawg

That answers the money question but not the contingency one. If we went all in on Seaton with no backups that?s crazy, we should have had multiple guys ready to go with offers when he moved on. We need to be more organized than this.

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That's a lot of assumptions. You know we didn't have multiple offers on the table for other LT's?

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Originally Posted by DEDawg

That answers the money question but not the contingency one. If we went all in on Seaton with no backups that?s crazy, we should have had multiple guys ready to go with offers when he moved on. We need to be more organized than this.

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That's why Sneh committed. When we knew Seaton wasn't going to happen, Brandon Sneh committed that day.

Also, the notion of a team like ours just having guys near or comparably as good as Seaton waiting for us at the end of the transfer portal window makes no sense.

According to Rosebowl we're going to get a visit from another OL prospect- Jaylen Acevedo from Navy.

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Originally Posted by Really Clark?

That's a lot of assumptions. You know we didn't have multiple offers on the table for other LT's?

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Originally Posted by MetEdDawg

That's why Sneh committed. When we knew Seaton wasn't going to happen, Brandon Sneh committed that day.

Also, the notion of a team like ours just having guys near or comparably as good as Seaton waiting for us at the end of the transfer portal window makes no sense.

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No that is not my point. We had one guy we were willing to give $4M to. We did not get him and we had a contingency in Sneh which is great. Good job by the staff. For easy math let us assume we paid him $1M. We should have had 10 other guys who make our team better, whether they are starters or depth, ready as contingencies for us to spend the remaining $3M on. The only reason I can think is that money could only be used on Seaton and was retracted when he moved on then I understand but I don?t know why that would be the case. $3M can make our team a lot better I don?t believe there is not 1,3,5,10 whatever players still in the portal who would not have made our team better we could have used that $3M on

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Originally Posted by MetEdDawg

That's why Sneh committed. When we knew Seaton wasn't going to happen, Brandon Sneh committed that day.

Also, the notion of a team like ours just having guys near or comparably as good as Seaton waiting for us at the end of the transfer portal window makes no sense.

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Not exactly. Jayven James leaving is the reason we took Sneh.

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Originally Posted by Really Clark?

That's a lot of assumptions. You know we didn't have multiple offers on the table for other LT's?

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^this