2025/26 Transfer Portal Thread

[DD4ME]

How can you be eligible to play at Cal and not Tennessee?

Entry requirements could include knowing your role

 

[berryvol]

How can you be eligible to play at Cal and not Tennessee?

Yeah how the hell does this keep happening to us in 2026? Makes zero sense when you’ve got much more prestigious institutions taking on guys left and right.

 

[DD4ME]

What is even more impressive about this portal haul so far is that Heupel and staff have been able to pull it off while asleep at the wheel and, at times, not even on campus for visits.

Pure luck

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

How come we seem too be only ones with rou le getting people into school ?and how is both backs we went after not able dont make sense to me ..

Lots of players don't make transfer requirements of school or conference. It just isn't advertised.

 

[McDad]

What is even more impressive about this portal haul so far is that Heupel and staff have been able to pull it off while asleep at the wheel and, at times, not even on campus for visits.

 

[csheaton]

How come we seem too be only ones with rou le getting people into school ?and how is both backs we went after not able dont make sense to me ..

How can someone be a Cal Berkeley student and not clear entry requirements at UT? Surprising to say the least.

 

[bpalmer28]

OH MY GOODNESS

 

[berryvol]

Lots of players don't make transfer requirements of school or conference. It just isn't advertised.

Just seems to only be an “us” issue when you’ve got Pavia and maybe Boo out there for Vandy

 

[bpalmer28]

Boom

because this thread is full of bs that nobody cares about i’m bumping this for ppl who don’t have time to go back 4 pages to find it relevant information

 

[NormalVol]

Boom

Boom! Boom!

 

[BogeyVol]

What is even more impressive about this portal haul so far is that Heupel and staff have been able to pull it off while asleep at the wheel and, at times, not even on campus for visits.

OR nobody in here really knows what actually is going on and is just speculating to fill their own narrative?

 

[Ryanvols24]

Lots of players don't make transfer requirements of school or conference. It just isn't advertised.

Okay was just curious how both backs we had that problem with

 

[99vawl]

Players with multiple years of eligibility mixed in is nice and has been prioritized in some areas. Chaz great example.

 

[Batman1948]

That can’t be right.
The sky was falling a couple days ago

It almost hit me on my head

 

[VolFanNC09]

Now we need a Safety or two to commit. Hopefully one of the PSU safeties.

 

[Stoerner Fumbles]

How can you be eligible to play at Cal and not Tennessee?

Transfer requirements aren't always grades. It can be minimum hours, progress toward degree etc. It's also possible he had a bad semester at Cal. I don't know. I generally don't like discussing health or grades of kids, as you never know all the circumstances. I just know he arrived with them agreed on a number etc., and today I heard he left due to requirements.

 

[BleedOrange16]

Nakos has been as locked in as anyone during the portal season.

Nobody once has said we were even remotely close to leading for Chaz. The only change I saw was we went from low confidence to medium when we landed Gilliam but even then a stretch. Chaz has show no real love or interest towards Tennessee. He posted a pic with Kiffin and a cookie from OSU then deleted everything.

He was and still is a long shot. He 100% wants OSU and they know it so they are low balling. If they matched LSU he would be done already.

 

[berryvol]

Players with multiple years of eligibility mixed in is nice and has been prioritized in some areas. Chaz great example.

99… any idea on when we have some QB clarity?

 

[Cobb-Webb 1989]

Boom

 

[VolFanNC09]

@Ericvol2096 is it true we will not add as many portal players as we lose?

We will lose likely 25 and add 12-15. We don't need to add 25, we also have the incoming class.

 

[D-Vols]

Boom

BOOM!2026 Vols Defense, Armed, Loaded and ready to blow the roof off!

 

[DD4ME]

 

[Batman1948]

Huge talent and culture upgrade

Can’t be anything but elated after today

Now, you've gone too far---some will never be happy, and you know it because they have to have something to bitch about

 

[almirUT]

Give credit where it’s due. Nice freakin pick up

 

[DD4ME]