2025/26 Transfer Portal Thread

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KB5252 said:
We still need depth and a practice squad.

That's an angle I hadn't considered until just now. Iron sharpens iron. If your practicing against a bunch of Rudy's how sharp can you be?
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Hey, leave Samwise Gamgee out of this. At this point we could probably use him on the DL.
 
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rockytop25 said:
If I were as miserable about TN football as some of you are, I would not spend the amount of time on VN as you do.

Why put so much energy and time into being so negative about something?
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Good question. I'll make up my mind about the success with the portal after the portal closes. If we end up doing poorly, I'll be disappointed but still, just a game. I have many bigger concerns.
 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
This isn't what you pay me for, but I will share that the NCAA monolith (including ESPN/Disney and the big conferences) is flipping out over this year's portal catastrophe. This will be the last year of the Wild West. When Ball St. loses a single RB to the portal to Notre Dame, no one sweats. When Bama and PSU lose their entire defense in one portal window and Texas Tech spends 35mm stacking up 105 mercenaries, there is a problem. Conference heads are on the phone trying to stop the nightmare this year. They can't. Rest assured that there is not a world where it keeps going on this way next year. The collective nausea we're feeling is happening all over. Look for this UW/LSU lawsuit to have a lot of political power behind it as an example.

I'll get a read on how we're doing with various targets later today, but wanted to share that all the superpowers are on the horn shouting about the upside down world. They don't want Yosemite Sam buying Lubbock a new trophy every year, and they don't want an arms race either. The integrity of the sport can't handle this mess while still drawing the same level of interest. They'll do something next off season.
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I'm just playing devil's advocate here: this will never happen but what if it could happen?

Every team that plays TT next year just forfeits the game; on the day they're supposed to play. TT's million-dollar players have no stats for the entire year and have no video to show the NFL powers that be. That should get someone's attention pretty quickly. TT would win the mythical National Championship, but it would be fun to watch it all playout in real time. TV networks would go nuts and advertisers would probably revolt.

That's just my thoughts on this subject
 
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Darn portal sucks. This is beginning to be like watching the shuttle explosion when I was younger. Knowing it is bad but still watching it. Death by 1000 paper cuts
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
Yeah we’re f’d because a guy who’s been here 4 years and never sniffed the field left.
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I think we are f'd bc we no longer have a 2 deep on the Oline. Does Grant leaving matter? In a vacuum not at all. But when you have 7 total OL it might.
 
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HoleInTheRoof said:
Yeah we’re f’d because a guy who’s been here 4 years and never sniffed the field left.
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I never said we'd be effed. But with no depth and no practice squad behind that makes it tough to run drills and practice. It's a bigger deal than y'all are dismissing it as.
 
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