2025 Transfer Portal Thread

[Cooterpoot]

We arguing about the NFL in a transfer portal thread?
Let's get back on track. We need some good news to finish up this first part of the portal scene. Fluff, Whitson, Moten would get me excited. We've built up enough depth in most places, we need some heavy hitters. Then finish up strong next round with WR and a couple guys and let's roll and see how it goes.

[HoopsDawg]

We arguing about the NFL in a transfer portal thread?
Let's get back on track. We need some good news to finish up this first part of the portal scene. Fluff, Whitson, Moten would get me excited. We've built up enough depth in most places, we need some heavy hitters. Then finish up strong next round with WR and a couple guys and let's roll and see how it goes.

Fluff, whitson and Moton would be 3 true starters unlike most of our adds. We need them.

[CaptainObvious]

Back to the topic!

Who's got next?

[StarkVegasSteve]

Fluff, whitson and Moton would be 3 true starters unlike most of our adds. We need them.

I feel EXTREMELY GOOD on Whitson. I feel really good on Moten and Fluff. The visit to OM worries me on Fluff, just because they close well in the portal. But I know he wants an opportunity to start, and he won't have that at OM. They just have far too many backs and are going to bring in more in the portal.

On Moten, Yes it's MOTEN with an E so we can go ahead and get that out of the way, I feel pretty confident of where we stand with him but no clue on a decision time table. I do know he wants to be back in the SEC and to prove he can play at this level.

[bigbub50]

Why is whitson so high on the board? Did he have great stats at coastal?

[Cooterpoot]

Feel best about Whitson, worst probably about Moten but Moten has a starting spot and a great offer from us so that's all we can do. Fluff the same but down to a couple teams. Get them here!

[bigbub50]

Moten with an E needs to be priority. Probably would have to over pay there and that’s a huge need for us.

[DLGDawg]

I feel EXTREMELY GOOD on Whitson. I feel really good on Moten and Fluff. The visit to OM worries me on Fluff, just because they close well in the portal. But I know he wants an opportunity to start, and he won't have that at OM. They just have far too many backs and are going to bring in more in the portal.

On Moten, Yes it's MOTEN with an E so we can go ahead and get that out of the way,

You forgot the s at the end**

[bigbub50]

Having a great back is good but we literally ran the rock very efficiently with booth and Daniels. Booth broke a Cpl runs for 40-50 yards but got hawked down and we would end up not scoring. I am not concerned with rb. CB and DL is a different story. I also think backs should be salivating to play with us. From Florida on, we ran effectively against every one but Georgia and ole miss. Georgia tried to press our wr and gave us a lot of man free and Lebby burned that to a tune of 31 yards. Lebby sees a lot of deep zone with light boxes and that’s a rb dream.

[Todd4State]

I feel EXTREMELY GOOD on Whitson. I feel really good on Moten and Fluff. The visit to OM worries me on Fluff, just because they close well in the portal. But I know he wants an opportunity to start, and he won't have that at OM. They just have far too many backs and are going to bring in more in the portal.

On Moten, Yes it's MOTEN with an E so we can go ahead and get that out of the way, I feel pretty confident of where we stand with him but no clue on a decision time table. I do know he wants to be back in the SEC and to prove he can play at this level.

Ole Miss will overpay for a PR win for sure. Hopefully Fluff will let us counter whatever their offer is.

[Todd4State]

Why is whitson so high on the board? Did he have great stats at coastal?

Potential NFL future from what I read.

[Goldendawg]

I am concerned about the evaluation and possible SEC talent level of our JC commits. With the addition of the 6'9" "TE" we now have 12 JC players in our class of 27. I went back and looked at the offer sheet of each player. Only 4 of the 12 had P4 offers and 2 of the 4 only had offers from us and OM.from P4. Have most others in the SEC abandoned the MS JC ranks (about 9 of our commits are from there) to concentrate on the portal or are our evaluations off? Time will tell for sure in 2026 as most JC guys seem to take a year to adjust to SEC play for us. Maybe a few will contribute in 2025. Either we have a "diamond in the rough pipeline" that others have abandoned or we may see Jackie's Western AZ CC 2.0.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Potential NFL future from what I read.

He got injured this year but was looked at as a sure fire NFL guy before the season. He would be a really good get for us.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Ole Miss will overpay for a PR win for sure. Hopefully Fluff will let us counter whatever their offer is.

The problem is that they've already overpaid for two(Andrew Jones at Grambling and Odom from Bama).

[StarkVegasSteve]

I am concerned about the evaluation and possible SEC talent level of our JC commits. With the addition of the 6'9" "TE" we now have 12 JC players in our class of 27. I went back and looked at the offer sheet of each player. Only 4 of the 12 had P4 offers and 2 of the 4 only had offers from us and OM.from P4. Have most others in the SEC abandoned the MS JC ranks (about 9 of our commits are from there?)

Well the Bama, LSU, UGA of the world have abandoned the JUCO ranks. They use G5 like JUCO now. Your mid tier SEC programs (OM, us, USCe, Arky, etc) will still use it if the prospect is really good, i.e. Tony Mitchell or Zavion Hardy. We had to use it this year so much to build up depth. We need guys that have the bodies, we can't rely on HS kids to build depth.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I've updated the OP with the commitments I was able to find. I haven't gotten to the DBs yet. I will try to get to them this afternoon.

[Goldendawg]

Well the Bama, LSU, UGA of the world have abandoned the JUCO ranks. They use G5 like JUCO now. Your mid tier SEC programs (OM, us, USCe, Arky, etc) will still use it if the prospect is really good, i.e. Tony Mitchell or Zavion Hardy. We had to use it this year so much to build up depth. We need guys that have the bodies, we can't rely on HS kids to build depth.

Tony Mitchell looks to be the real deal. Worried about most of these guys. Still disappointed on Lebby's commits on signing day regarding the DL JC signees that "now we have some big guys to practice against on the Scout Team". Really and is that the best we could do in recruiting in this cycle for HS/JC? Spending scholarships and some NIL $ for Scout team players? Wow.

[Really Clark?]

Why is whitson so high on the board? Did he have great stats at coastal?

He is a legit NFL prospect and if he hadn't been injured probably would have went pro this year.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Tony Mitchell looks to be the real deal. Worried about most of these guys. Still disappointed on Lebby's commits on signing day regarding the DL JC signees that "now we have some guys to practice against on the Scout Team". Really and is that the best we could do in recruiting in this cycle for HS/JC? Spending scholarships and some NIL $ for Scout team players? Wow.

Well remember.....there's no more walk ons. Everyone is on scholarship now. And I imagine their NIL is $500-$1,000/month. I also don't think some people realize how bad we were off this year from a numbers stand point. I mean we were barely able to practice most weeks because of the injuries we had and the numbers we had at multiple positions. Finally with like a month left we just said screw it and started going full tip. Coincidentally, we got better defensively after that.

[Goldendawg]

Well remember.....there's no more walk ons. Everyone is on scholarship now. And I imagine their NIL is $500-$1,000/month. I also don't think some people realize how bad we were off this year from a numbers stand point. I mean we were barely able to practice most weeks because of the injuries we had and the numbers we had at multiple positions. Finally with like a month left we just said screw it and started going full tip. Coincidentally, we got better defensively after that.

It wasn't just a numbers thing. Yes, we finished at around our usual 25 to 30 ranking in recruiting the last few years under multiple HC's, but our roster was extremely out of balance. One recent Spring Game I counted about 20 WR/Slot players on the program that day. "D" has been especially neglected in several past recruiting cycles. We can't expect to beat people 50 to 42 under any HC against SEC foes.