2025 Transfer Portal

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KnoxLikeUs said:
The panic for players in this 2026 class is okay for debate but not a single one is a need. Texas, UCLA, Kentucky, and South Carolina are all project to end the 2025 recruiting cycle with just 1-2 commits. Last season, LSU signed just 1 HS recruit.
They didn’t panic and start calling their coaching staff recruitment plan a failure. They trusted the process.
If it’s acceptable for people to post that it is, then I’ll post why it isn’t.
Coach Caldwell has built a Top 20 team with ranked wins in one season including a win over Top 5 UConn. They have arguably the best incoming 2025 HS class including 3 McDAAs, 2 Gatorade POY honorees, 3 State Champions, and 4 commits that will compete for a HS National Championship.
They have a strong core of returnees with some of those players having multiple years of eligibility remaining.
They are preparing for a portal class in March - April.
I’ve watched all the 2026 players mentioned as a need and neither are a need but would be a good addition to build as part of the foundation which there are still multiple prospects that can fill that position that the staff will recruit.
I’m as excited as anyone to watch this staff recruit and now become strategic and fundamental in constructing a roster using the portal, high school, and international recruiting landscape.
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Not going to be five again never was three looks like the most we'll sign in 2026. I can better address it after we see who we get out of the portal and how much eligibility they have. We have 8 for 2026 now so we can go up to seven portal and recruits. Plus you have another portal before that season begins after next season. So two portals and 2026 recruiting for seven players max.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
Counting against the roster, absolutely. Guaranteed a scholarship? I wonder. Not sure the ncaa can unilaterally require everyone of the roster be on scholarship.
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Think in a article about roster limits their talking about doing away with walk-ons all sports.
So any players left on a team would be on a scholarship.
 
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Ladyvols4ever! said:
I think back to what DeerPark told us a while back. That of the 2025 class coming to TN, 4 of the 5 had better NIL deals at other schools and they STILL chose to come to TN.
It's important, but NIL is not at the top of recruits lists.
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Deer park didn't tell numbers how close those deals were.
It's one thing to take a little less.
Compair to talking a lot less
Be nice if more NIl deals were public.
Seems like football more public than women's basketball NIL deals.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
That is the way I understood it as well. The question was can they legally do it.
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Volfan2012 said:
That is the way I understood it as well. The question was can they legally do it.
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Well football roster limits are talking about increasing around 105 .
If they do away with letting walk-ons play only scholarship players left
Think some sports have partial scholarship might have seen full Scholarships for all players in all sports talked about.
Legal title 9 equal scholarship for men's/women's sports.
 
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mudcat1973 said:
Well football roster limits are talking about increasing around 105 .
If they do away with letting walk-ons play only scholarship players left
Think some sports have partial scholarship might have seen full Scholarships for all players in all sports talked about.
Legal title 9 equal scholarship for men's/women's sports.
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I am ok with 105 total in football and think 15 in womens basketball is enough. 13 in mens basketball needs to be raised to 15 cause we had some injuries this year and needed those extra two scholarships.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
I am ok with 105 total in football and think 15 in womens basketball is enough. 13 in mens basketball needs to be raised to 15 cause we had some injuries this year and needed those extra two scholarships.
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Money Money Money it's gonna have to slow down sometime. Average fans want be able to afford to go to the games. Of course the last few on these teams want be high profile recruits most likely, there's only so much money to go around.
 
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volsagain said:
Money Money Money it's gonna have to slow down sometime. Average fans want be able to afford to go to the games. Of course the last few on these teams want be high profile recruits most likely, there's only so much money to go around.
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If they can legally put a Nil cap on all schools that will work just fine. Pro sports have a salary cap should have one for power five schools also. Then the ones that use the money the best will be the best teams.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
I am ok with 105 total in football and think 15 in womens basketball is enough. 13 in mens basketball needs to be raised to 15 cause we had some injuries this year and needed those extra two scholarships.
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Think with increasing football by about 20 Scholarships
They university are trying to save money.
Because of equal full Scholarships 20 going to have to add to women's sports.
the conferences are agreeing To ending walk-ons.
It can cost that much for for a uniform and flying and busing walk-ons to games.
after all walk on to take care of their own School/housin on their own.
cost cutting of getting rid of walk-ons was in a article I read about roster limit
 
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Volfan2012 said:
If they can legally put a Nil cap on all schools that will work just fine. Pro sports have a salary cap should have one for power five schools also. Then the ones that use the money the best will be the best teams.
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Really think schools will do the profit sharing. Now NIL is a different animal don't think they will be able to control that. You can't stop someone from earning what ever someone is willing to pay for your service. NCAA got away with this for years and that day has come to a close. Courts have already made that ruling. What's about to happen the smaller revenue schools will become weaker unless they cap revenue at amount small schools can afford.
 
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It’s chess not checkers. This staff out recruited proclaimed top recruiting schools in putting together the 2025 Lambo Vols recruiting class.
Be strategic and make the right moves. The additions that might not gain the most attention and praise on the forums could be the game-changer.

Volfan2012 said:
Not going to be five again never was three looks like the most we'll sign in 2026. I can better address it after we see who we get out of the portal and how much eligibility they have. We have 8 for 2026 now so we can go up to seven portal and recruits. Plus you have another portal before that season begins after next season. So two portals and 2026 recruiting for seven players max.
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volsagain said:
Really think schools will do the profit sharing. Now NIL is a different animal don't think they will be able to control that. You can't stop someone from earning what ever someone is willing to pay for your service. NCAA got away with this for years and that day has come to a close. Courts have already made that ruling. What's about to happen the smaller revenue schools will become weaker unless they cap revenue at amount small schools can afford.
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The way I understand it is that schools will be able to pay players and that is where the cap comes in. Nil outside that any players get on their own will just be extra. It is like you said revenue sharing and Tennessee got 20 million 500 thousand as their share.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
If they can legally put a Nil cap on all schools that will work just fine. Pro sports have a salary cap should have one for power five schools also. Then the ones that use the money the best will be the best teams.
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You don't want that. To do it legally there would have to be collective bargaining. That would certainly lead to future strikes, hold outs, lock outs, etc. That's the fastest way I can think of to destroy college sports.

The best chance for college sports to continue is keeping the payments separate from the universities like it is now.

The other possibility is creating a league for each revenue support for 17 to 24 year olds enrolled in college. Each participating university could license their brand and rent their facilities to the league "operator".
 
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Volfan2012 said:
If they can legally put a Nil cap on all schools that will work just fine. Pro sports have a salary cap should have one for power five schools also. Then the ones that use the money the best will be the best teams.
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That’s already been struck down. Not until they negotiate a CBA could that become a reality.
 
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I'm guessing one of the most stressful parts of portal recruiting for coaching staffs is deciding when to pull the trigger on offers. It's safe to say every staff would love to have the luxury of waiting until every single one of the transferring players are announced at once and then there's no need to wait and see who else might come along.

But the nature of this portal beast means that players are entering the portal at different times, so decisions about who and when to offer come with the pressure of knowing that waiting even one day could result in some other staff swooping in and scarfing up a terrific player. And the players themselves may be anxious to sign with someone else quickly out of fear that if they wait too long to choose (if they have multiple suitors) they could end up not having a spot anywhere if staffs fill empty roster spots quickly.

I'm 100% glad I'm not a coach these days. The recruiting/portal/NIL stuff would drive me much nuttier than I already am even without any of that to worry about.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
That’s already been struck down. Not until they negotiate a CBA could that become a reality.
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It's a step closer when power conference's are paying their athletes 20 million dollars division among their different sports.
Men's basketball and football where ever player or is getting paid directly from the university is the first step to a salary cap and CBA agreement for any college players getting paid.

One thing thing on walk-ons especially high injury sports like football maybe trying to cut money speading health insurance and injured players rehabilitation injury's like ACL knees.
Don't how much a university pays for injury's out of pocket on players.
 
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Cb153181 said:
I am interested to see after this year, how the recruiting goes for HS recruits.

I know she signed 5 this year but those girls committed before the season really got started.

I wonder if the subbing every 40 seconds will turn recruits off. Future recruits will have seen this system for a full year so they will be able to determine if their play fits the system.
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I don't know how you come to 40 seconds,,,but it is a misleading guess
against the connies 1min3sec average for mass subs
against Auburn 1 min 20 second between mass subs
and the time grew as the season went on
 
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I saw this a while back in another forum but they basically limited the roster to 15 spots max and everyone on the roster is eligible to receive a scholarship but every player on the roster does not have to be on scholarship.

So for example in football I think the limit was 85 scholarship players but they would add like 30-40 more players as walk ons who were not scholarship eligible. With the new rule, the limit will be 105 players but all players could be on scholarship. So the thinking is you would rather have a team full of scholarship quality players since they are limiting the roster size. However, you could still fill roster spots with non scholarship or partial scholarship players if you want.

In the case of Edie I would think she keeps a spot regardless if they put her on scholarship or not because we’ve really been using 10-11 players per game so she’s not really taking a spot from anyone.
 
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Rooster1 said:
So far, this looks like the top big in the portal, 19/10 average and great shot blocker.

sports.yahoo.com

Serah Williams, Wisconsin basketball's two-time all-Big Ten selection, will transfer

The 6-foot-4 forward finished her Badgers career as the program's 11th-leading scorer with 1,494 points and is second all-time with 36 double-doubles.
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Some programs with coaching staff following her on Instagram: Virginia, Clemson, UConn, Miami, Virginia Tech, Indiana, Washington, Ole Miss, Minnesota, Georgia...and of course, Coach Gabe. ;)
 
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