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Viewing Topic: Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
I'm hoping we bring in some OL in exactly this mold.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Unironically yes.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Remember when we would say "LARGE HUMAN" and feel our cockles warm because we were so assured by the fact that the massive kid was Flood-approved. That was nice. Now I'm scrubbing through Oregon State games trying to figure out how this is actually a disaster.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Call it the "Investing In Myself!" wing.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
SI article is more sunshine. Therefore, it is the correct way to look at it. 88.1 pass blocking, 70.1 run blocking as a freshman Oregon State LG Dylan Sikorski Embraces Starting RoleYesterday, Oregon State starting left guard Dylan Sikorski spoke with reporters ahead of Saturday's matchup with Fresno State. Dylan Sikorski might be the happiest player on the Oregon State football team. Yesterday, Dylan Sikorski opened up to local media, embracing a wide grin that was impossible to ignore. The redshirt freshman offensive lineman knows his career trajectory is soaring. Last Saturday, Sikorski earned his first ever Oregon State start, lining up at left guard between tackle Jacob Strand and center Van Wells. It wasn’t supposed to happen. A deep sleeper to earn a starting role, Sikorski spent most of fall camp recovering from an injury. “I had a meniscus tear, I had surgery on that in the Spring, I got back in four months and I’m back playing”. Sikorski was cleared to play in time for the opening kickoff Saturday, and started despite being left off the official two-deep depth chart entirely. Clearly, the coaches believed in Sikorski’s potential. He’s only been on campus for fourteen months, but at 6’4” and 332 pounds, he already displays NFL-caliber measurables. What’s more, he has a can-do attitude. Last season, after the Beavers defensive line suffered through a dizzying array of injuries, the then-true freshman buried on the depth chart agreed to switch sides. He played in four games, earning tackles against ranked foes Washington State and Boise State late in the season. According to Pro Football Focus (PFF), the Beavers’ starting left guard led all Oregon State linemen in pass blocking grade (88.1) and run blocking grade (70.1). In PFF’s criterion, a grade in the 70s is above average, and a grade in the 80s is good. Sikorski’s self-assessment was more humble: “I could get better in everything … my run game could definitely get better: picking up blitzes, linebackers, eyes on the linebackers”. For the Beavers to earn their first win of the season Saturday afternoon versus Fresno State, they’ll need a big day from their emerging starter.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Would be very interested to hear the story on him only starting 6 games for Oregon State. Glad to have him, though.
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Texas Roster 2026
I suppose a big question is whether or not we're pulling scholarships. I can't imagine we would be given how big rosters can now be. It would seem that what we're doing is saying, "You have your scholarship and those attendant benefits, but you're not getting NIL on top of it anymore (or a huge NIL paycut)."
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Texas Roster 2026
For many of us here who worked their way through it and received none of this due to our exceptional lack of exceptional physical talent it was hard to get up in the feelings about this BEFORE we added grown-working-adult salaries on top of everything else. And for many, 2,3,4,5,6,20x a grown-working-adult salary. Yeah, we have to learn to wipe our own asses at some point in our lives. That's true. And yeah, it can feel bad to have to do that because we're so unused to it. But if you're in your 20s I fail to see what any of these people owe you after having already given you so much.
- 2026 Fiesta Bowl - Miami vs. Ole Miss (CFP Semifinal #1)
- 2026 Fiesta Bowl - Miami vs. Ole Miss (CFP Semifinal #1)
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
We don't need to land anyone for me to forget a player who never did anything on the field. I can barely remember the ones who did stuff. I was going to say something about college athletes being less sophisticated clients than what those types of people might be used to dealing with so maybe that's the wrong path, but I think I'm giving the McCombs types a lot more credit than they deserve.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
If I never have to read another poster talk about "well in sales..." again it'll be too goddam soon.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Which of the players who has left are you thinking we're not going to be able to replace? Baxter? Wisner? Lefau? Moore? Livingstone? Washington seeing what's going on as far as his place on the depth chart and saying, "Welp, I'm outta here."? Kibble?
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Pining For IOLs Who Can Fog A Mirror
Agreed. So you're Moore and Baxter and you end up at... Kentucky? OK, cool, but is that really what you were envisioning? How much more are you really making and you're at Kentucky now. Lockett gets in the motherfucker. Great, now where are you going and for how much, actually? That "jerry jones" comment with a like from Baxter is actually kind of encouraging. It indicates a plan and a process, which are two very good things to have in a time of chaos. Even a weak plan is better than none.