2025 Transfer Portal Thread

[Matt3467]

Why are you talking about a coach that's never coaching here again. We fired him. He didn't leave on his own.

Read the post I replied to.

[DEDawg]

Playing a little devils advocate here, how do we know he is doing any recruiting??

Is he?

[StarkVegasSteve]

Why are you talking about a coach that's never coaching here again. We fired him. He didn't leave on his own.

Because people have an overinflated view of Arnett as the DC. It's as simple as that. A lot of people got this "he's one of us" mindset stuck in their head and can't let it go.

He fielded the following defenses:

2020: Total Defense Ranking: 57th. Gave up 28.1 PPG

2021: Total Defense Ranking: 62nd. Gave up 25.9 PPG

2022: Total Defense Ranking: 40th. Gave up 23.1 PPG.


He had ONE defense ranked 40th. The rest were not top 50. That is an average DC.


You also have to remember that those defenses had: Martin Emerson, Emmanuel Forbes, Jett Johnson, Nathaniel Watson, Shawn Preston Jr, Jalen Green, Jackie Matthews, Jaden Crumedy, Errol Thompson, Tyrus Wheat, and I could go on but you get the picture. Those teams had guys that could start on other SEC teams. We had MAYBE two that could start for another SEC team this year and MULTIPLE who couldn't start for a G5 team.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Is he?

I don't think he is. I have some pretty good reason to believe he is not.

[DEDawg]

I don't think he is. I have some pretty good reason to believe he is not.

Excellent news. I?m scared we?re gonna somehow end up keeping him. Dont understand why we don?t just make the move now but trying to be patient

[KB21]

Because people have an overinflated view of Arnett as the DC. It's as simple as that. A lot of people got this "he's one of us" mindset stuck in their head and can't let it go.

He fielded the following defenses:

2020: Total Defense Ranking: 57th. Gave up 28.1 PPG

2021: Total Defense Ranking: 62nd. Gave up 25.9 PPG

2022: Total Defense Ranking: 40th. Gave up 23.1 PPG.


He had ONE defense ranked 40th. The rest were not top 50. That is an average DC.


You also have to remember that those defenses had: Martin Emerson, Emmanuel Forbes, Jett Johnson, Nathaniel Watson, Shawn Preston Jr, Jalen Green, Jackie Matthews, Jaden Crumedy, Errol Thompson, Tyrus Wheat, and I could go on but you get the picture. Those teams had guys that could start on other SEC teams. We had MAYBE two that could start for another SEC team this year and MULTIPLE who couldn't start for a G5 team.

...and he inherited ALL of that talent. He didn't recruit a single impact player until Isaac Smith.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Excellent news. I?m scared we?re gonna somehow end up keeping him. Dont understand why we don?t just make the move now but trying to be patient

There's no reason to. You can still hire someone else with him on staff. Just because Lebby hasn't gotten in front of a microphone and said, "Guys, David Turner 17 sucks at his job and I'm canning his ass" doesn't mean he thinks he's doing a good job. He doesn't. He's not happy with Turner. He didn't want him to begin with but it was pushed on him by boosters who JUST HAD TO HAVE the great recruiting maestro David Turner who one time kind of helped recruit Jeffrey Simmons.

[StarkVegasSteve]

DT Sheffield in the portal from North Texas. Originally from Corinth and went NWCC for two years. Had a hell of a year for North Texas. 66 catches/822 yds/11 TDs. Look for us to be a player.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Landyn Watson from Marshall will be visiting some time this week. LB with 66 tackles on the year.

[KB21]

Reports say Craver is in the portal.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Reports say Craver is in the portal.

I talked about that being a possibility. I got some info over the weekend and this morning that made me feel better, but was always kind of 50/50 on him.

[Pancho]

he is iffy

[StarkVegasSteve]

Craver is a loss because he was a contributor but receivers want to play in this offense. And I know Mario Craver may hate to hear it, but there's 450 Mario Craver's out there and about 150 in the portal. This offense will always attract receiver talent. Craver also has some growing up to do. Maybe he has a change of heart, but if not you move on and go get Sheffield from UNT and Anderson from Oklahoma and roll.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Raion Strader was just offered. CB out of Miami(OH). I'm extremely high on him. He would be a Day 1 starter for us.

[Brobi-wan]

Craver is a loss because he was a contributor but receivers want to play in this offense. And I know Mario Craver may hate to hear it, but there's 450 Mario Craver's out there and about 150 in the portal. This offense will always attract receiver talent. Craver also has some growing up to do. Maybe he has a change of heart, but if not you move on and go get Sheffield from UNT and Anderson from Oklahoma and roll.

Certainly a loss, but Coleman is the one you CAN’T lose. Craver is much more replaceable.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Certainly a loss, but Coleman is the one you CAN’T lose. Craver is much more replaceable.

We have Coleman locked up. Again, things change but I feel confident in saying Kevin Coleman is locked in. He has a really good NIL deal right now. And he also has done the transfer thing and it didn't work out. He knows a good spot when he sees it.

[Really Clark?]

Raion Strader was just offered. CB out of Miami(OH). I'm extremely high on him. He would be a Day 1 starter for us.

Me too, he will have options but an upgrade from Pollock

[StarkVegasSteve]

Just so it's out there, Rosebowl is reporting that Coleman's reps are sniffing around to see what his value is. Does not mean he's in the portal though. Goes against what I have heard for weeks on end, but just wanted to keep everyone updated on all sides. I'm still not very worried about Coleman.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Reginald Hughes, Edge rusher from Jax State but we may move to LB, picked up an offer. Fmr OM signee out of Tunica. Went nuts at Jax State this year. 83 tackles, 4.5 sacks

[StarkVegasSteve]

Clev Lubin, LB from Coastal Carolina, also picked up an offer. 43 tackles, 9.5 sacks on the year.