Who Do We Go After from the portal?

Nico is frustrated because Heupel struggles to recruit high school and transfer portal players, and that’s a fact. Napier and Freeze are far better recruiters than Heupel while on the hot seat. Let’s revisit this after the season. Heupel lived off Pruitt’s talent and now he is going the wrong way. Hell we haven’t had a high school Oline man or Wr pan out yet.
😂 Absolutely dumb AF. Take your stupid elsewhere.
 
I think Moore makes a lot of sense. Wouldn’t be expensive, knows the system, loves Heupel and I never heard anyone talk bad about him.
I'm surprised Moore hit the portal. Heupel would've kept him around and I felt he would've offered him a GA or analyst position for next year.

I assumed they talked and there's a reason he hit the portal. My best guess is he feels he can start somewhere and that's a personal goal. I can't fault him if he's done playing or feels he's gotten all he can from UT.

I'd take Moore but I'd prefer someone with a bit more talent. Moore won't move the needle if Merk and G-Mac aren't ready. On the good side, he wouldn't cause them to glance at the portal.
 
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The way things stand now it looks like Nico is gone. I'm optimistic about Merk but it's obvious we will go after someone in the portal next week.

Any guesses on who?

The same way someone with after our QB who wasn’t in the portal, we do the same.

Honestly I kind of hope we take a more conservative approach in terms of who it is, save a little money, and split those savings between a WR and a CB
 
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If we can use Nico’s money and get a starting WR and a starting OL, I’ll be very happy.

Merk is ready and is a gamer. The little QB option keeper that was run only a few times by Nico, would be a staple for Merk.
If you've only got 2 QB on the roster, you can't let your QB run the ball.
 
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Be interesting to see who shows interest. Did he show enough to draw that much money from anyone else? The OL wasn't that impressive, but he can't hang all the problems on that. Other coaches watch film and knows he needs polishing , but not worth what he thinks he is I'm sure.
 
Unlikely. Why would he come back to sit behind a guy that was behind him on the depth chart last year?
Because he's a QB that's been in the portal for a while and after spring a few more higher rated ones may enter pushing him further down the pick up list.
Some money is better than no money with a chance of jumping Mck and going in if Merk goes down.
 
I dont think we should be using a roster spot on him, much less paying him money to sit on the bench all year.
I really doubt UT is going into the season with only 2 QB's when you can get a 3rd for depth real cheap that knows the system.
 
He can’t transfer to another sec school in the spring portal. Overrated anyways.

Some of y’all were saying the same about Walter Nolan. From what I’ve read it sounds like he’s still winning that job right now
 
Some of y’all were saying the same about Walter Nolan. From what I’ve read it sounds like he’s still winning that job right now
The rule is no player in the sec can transfer to another sec school during the spring portal. Whoever we get cannot be enrolled in an sec school. When Walter Nolan was in the portal, that wasn’t a rule.
 
The rule is no player in the sec can transfer to another sec school during the spring portal. Whoever we get cannot be enrolled in an sec school. When Walter Nolan was in the portal, that wasn’t a rule.

I was talking about the ignorant “overrated” comment. Not the portal rule.
 
Just pay Nico; everyone else is doing the same thing. If he wants more money, so be it—everyone is asking for it. Nico is much better than he gets credit for; it was mostly the wide receivers and offensive line that contributed to the issues. The results from the other QB’s on the roster is a guarantee will not be anywhere near as good. I mean if I could get 4 million instead of 2 I would do the same thing.
Papa nico found
 
Find what plane he is on hijack everyone's phone and replay the last ten seconds of Arkansas to him on infinite loop
 
If you've only got 2 QB on the roster, you can't let your QB run the ball.
True. I feel certain they will add another qb out of the portal to provide some depth and competitiveness. We don't need our new qbs limited anymore than necessary. I wasn't overly impressed with Nico's wheels and his inability at times to use them. By the time he decided to run, the opportunity has passed. He didn't have the quickness Herndon and Dobbs had and not nearly as instinctive upstairs.
 

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