2025 Transfer Portal Thread

[Brobi-wan]

Moten to Southern Miss

I have a hard time believing if we seriously wanted him, that we lost out to them.

[HoopsDawg]

Moten to Southern Miss

goodness, i was told he was a SEC starting corner. I've never seen him play so I don't know. I do know we need a starter at corner that can plan man to man.

[DEDawg]

Wow that is surprising. It is good to know that it seems the staff can evaluate at least, gotta imagine we passed on him. Arnett would have promised him the starting job

[DEDawg]

Booth and Akharaiyi are going through the process of getting 2025.

Any update on these 2?

[BigDawg81]

I have a hard time believing if we seriously wanted him, that we lost out to them.

he wanted to play for Huff and so did the majority of the Marshall team.

[StarkVegasSteve]

he wanted to play for Huff and so did the majority of the Marshall team.

That was always going to be a tough hill to climb. We are still on Denver Harris, whenever he enters the portal. Probably pushing a bit harder now.

[Really Clark?]

I have a hard time believing if we seriously wanted him, that we lost out to them.

Wants to play for Huff. It sure wasn't money related.

[Cooterpoot]

That was always going to be a tough hill to climb. We are still on Denver Harris, whenever he enters the portal. Probably pushing a bit harder now.

Nah

[SPMT]

We went 2-10 last year. Did you think that we were going to raise 12-13 million and start raiding Alabama, Georgia, LSU, and Ohio State for players by simply throwing money around?

6 wins is the goal for next year- not the overall standard for the program.

If you look at Ole Miss's model- because that is the one we are following as a program- they started out as basically a .500 team before taking steps to become a 10 win team. And before you say they went to the Gator Bowl- their wins were over Kentucky, Vanderbilt, a 2-8 South Carolina team, and a MSU team depleted by COVID and an Indiana team riddled with opt outs.

Hopefully once we start to win games and show stability the profile of the players we recruit will become bigger and we can hopefully have 9-10 win seasons.

Yes. Why is it so hard for some to get this. Yeah, aim high, but reality is reality.

[ZedFedder]

I went and looked at the stats for OM?s portal class vs ours. Some of their 4 star transfers have proven nothing. I?m not that guy usually, but it?s way overblown.

[confucius say]

Their schedule gives them almost 8 wins

Exactly. They will have the easiest or top 3 easiest schedules again next year.

[SPMT]

That was always going to be a tough hill to climb. We are still on Denver Harris, whenever he enters the portal. Probably pushing a bit harder now.

If we wanted him and paid double?..I don?t believe any coach in the NCAA could talk 95% of kids into not going to the high paying school. In the current environment, I would include the GOAT in that, except he may could keep a handful more.

[chef dixon]

If Moten doesn't want to play SEC ball I think that speaks for itself

[HoopsDawg]

Nah

Nah as in not going after Denver Harris?

Not sure we can compete with our current corners.

[DEDawg]

That was always going to be a tough hill to climb. We are still on Denver Harris, whenever he enters the portal. Probably pushing a bit harder now.

So did we really lose him to Southern or did the staff evaluate and decided to pass? I can?t imagine a player picking southern over any SEC school no matter who the coach is

[StarkVegasSteve]

So did we really lose him to Southern or did the staff evaluate and decided to pass? I can?t imagine a player picking southern over any SEC school no matter who the coach is

He wanted to play for Huff. Huff is just taking the Marshall team to Hattiesburg. He has told those Marshall guys that everything will be the same. Starters last year at Marshall will be starters next year at USM. We wanted him, but the Huff piece and keeping the status quo won out.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I went and looked at the stats for OM?s portal class vs ours. Some of their 4 star transfers have proven nothing. I?m not that guy usually, but it?s way overblown.

Correct. And you know why that is? Because these recruiting services do not want to admit that their ratings were just off on guys. There is also the Kiffin piece. These guys want to rate his classes high because he is “The Portal King”. He gives credence to their original rankings on these kids. If Jaray Bledsoe had committed to Ole Miss he would be a high 4 star and they would have kept his original HS ranking. Same thing with Malick Sylla. And if Dashawn Womack had committed here he would be a 3 star.

[DEDawg]

Looks like we got Darron Reed. Was a top 200 recruit from Auburn. DL that didn?t play this year

[Cooterpoot]

Nah as in not going after Denver Harris?

Not sure we can compete with our current corners.

On Harris, I would pass until I had no other option. Then I'd pass again.
We definitely are hurting at CB

[DEDawg]

On Harris, I would pass until I had no other option. Then I'd pass again.
We definitely are hurting at CB

What is his deal? Character?