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Need their depth chart at WR but also HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Max Olson: Early College football Transfer Portal Buzz

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Five teams off to a good start

It's far too early to call anybody the Portal King for the 2024-25 offseason, but here are five programs that are quickly scooping up commitments through the first week of portal season.

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Texas Tech: The Red Raiders are absolutely going to be buyers in this cycle and determined to assemble one of the best portal classes in the country.
Texas Tech has secured seven transfer commitments for 2025 and expect several more soon. The biggest win thus far was beating Florida and Oklahoma for Miami (Ohio) transfer wide receiver Reggie Virgil. The 6-foot-4, 190-pound junior is coming off a breakout season with 41 catches for 816 yards and nine TDs to earn second-team All-MAC honors.
They boosted their secondary with safety Cole Wisniewski (North Dakota State) and corners Brice Pollock (Mississippi State) and Dontae Balfour (Charlotte). They solved their need at offensive tackle with Illinois State's Hunter Zambrano, the No. 3 tackle in ESPN's transfer rankings, and Miami (Ohio)'s Will Jados, a three-year starter at left tackle. And they locked up an All-MAC defensive tackle in Skyler Gill-Howard from Northern Illinois.
We saw several programs shove all-in during last year's winter portal cycle with ambitions of making a run in the first 12-team College Football Playoff. This year, Texas Tech is going to be one of them. They're sending a message early on that it's Big 12 title or bust in 2025.

image.png.a2049801edf7d411219fefc55c997ad8.png LSU: The Tigers have already collected quite a few high-impact players for 2025. On offense, they landed one of the SEC's most productive playmakers in Kentucky's Barion Brown, the No. 3 wide receiver in ESPN's transfer rankings. They also found their next starting tight end in Oklahoma transfer Bauer Sharp and may have secured their QB of the future in Mississippi State transfer Michael Van Buren. They landed another top-10 transfer on Monday in Virginia Tech's Mansoor Delane, our No. 1 ranked cornerback, to go along with talented former Florida corner Ja'Keem Jackson and a veteran edge defender in Nebraska's Jimari Butler.


1a419dc30fdaccb599379feb484cf775225c4a97Ole Miss: Who loves portal season more than Lane Kiffin? The Rebels head coach has scooped up three Arkansas transfers -- tight end Luke Hasz, offensive lineman Patrick Kutas and cornerback Jaylon Braxton -- as well as two high-potential edge defenders in Princewill Umanmielen (Nebraska) and Da'Shawn Womack (LSU) plus a massive offensive line prospect in Charlotte transfer PJ Wilkins, who check in at 6-foot-7 and 340 pounds. Ole Miss is also in the race for top transfer receivers Eric Singleton Jr. (Georgia Tech) and Dane Key (Kentucky) as well as Alabama transfer running back Justice Haynes. Expect another big-time portal haul for 2025 from Kiffin and his staff.

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Minnesota: P.J. Fleck is leading the way early on with 10 transfer commits, more than any other Power 4 program as of Monday morning. The Gophers landed one of the Sun Belt's best running backs, Marshall's A.J. Turner, to pair with leading rusher Darius Taylor, plus two more backs in Cameron Davis (Washington) and Cole Cabana (Michigan) for a strong stable of backs. Miami (Ohio) receiver Javon Tracy was one of the best in the MAC this season and was a big get, and Georgia Tech transfer Zach Pyron could be a steal as well. Minnesota also grabbed two FCS transfers who could be under-the-radar gems in Illinois State's Steven Curtis and Stony Brook's Rushawn Lawrence to boost their defensive line. The Gophers are loading up quickly with quality pickups.

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Auburn: Hugh Freeze got his guy at quarterback in Oklahoma transfer Jackson Arnold. Now that he's officially on board, there's no doubt the Tigers will look to make a big splash in this portal window after a disappointing 5-7 season. They added one of the top offensive tackles on the market in Virginia Tech's Xavier Chaplin, a two-year starter at left tackle, and just picked up Miami (Ohio)'s Raion Strader, the No. 3 cornerback in ESPN's transfer rankings and a first-team All-MAC performer. They also found an intriguing sleeper in UConn transfer running back Durell Robinson, who was one of the most productive freshman backs in FBS this season with 806 total yards and eight TDs.

 

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2 hours ago, Ricky Butler said:

My point is more… how is OU in this position going into year 4?

It's a tale as old as time!

Made a bad HC hire, who hired a bad initial staff including a ton of people with OU ties, failed the S&C program with that hire, then then didn't move on from any of them in a timely manner. That staff made bad initial recruiting evals, didn't format the scheme to match or maximize the players they had on either side of the ball, made bad transfer portal evals, had some less than ideal injury luck, and then didn't make coaching staff changes until they absolutely had to.

That's without considering that they ran off a heisman finalist QB for a five star redshirt freshman QB, then benched that five star guy for another freshman QB like three games into the season, then instead of sticking with that guy went back to the first guy, then spent a ton hiring offensive coaches to try to get a fourth QB in the portal. 

All while their biggest historical rival loaded up an NIL death star, started developing talent, maximized scheme, made good coaching hires, got lucky with a few evals, won a conf championship, played for another, and made it to back to back CFPs.

If Venables makes it through the bye next year it's going to be an absolutele miracle. Texas / @SCar / Ole Miss / @Tenn is a brutal stretch.

There's no quick turnaround for them. They are going to be in the same boat Texas was post Charlie Strong, unless they can convince Nick Saban to come back to coaching.

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2 hours ago, texifornia said:

Yeah, Craver can play.

 

Craver has talent but not really a fan of what aggy is doing at WR unless they add some more proven production at WR.

Craver 368 career receiving yards, Hudson 123 receiving yards, and Bussey 179 receiving yards. They need some proven WRs to set a decent floor or else they're just praying some of these guys end up being good players. 

 

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19 minutes ago, NoName said:

It's a tale as old as time!

Made a bad HC hire, who hired a bad initial staff including a ton of people with OU ties, failed the S&C program with that hire, then then didn't move on from any of them in a timely manner. That staff made bad initial recruiting evals, didn't format the scheme to match or maximize the players they had on either side of the ball, made bad transfer portal evals, had some less than ideal injury luck, and then didn't make coaching staff changes until they absolutely had to.

That's without considering that they ran off a heisman finalist QB for a five star redshirt freshman QB, then benched that five star guy for another freshman QB like three games into the season, then instead of sticking with that guy went back to the first guy, then spent a ton hiring offensive coaches to try to get a fourth QB in the portal. 

All while their biggest historical rival loaded up an NIL death star, started developing talent, maximized scheme, made good coaching hires, got lucky with a few evals, won a conf championship, played for another, and made it to back to back CFPs.

If Venables makes it through the bye next year it's going to be an absolutele miracle. Texas / @SCar / Ole Miss / @Tenn is a brutal stretch.

There's no quick turnaround for them. They are going to be in the same boat Texas was post Charlie Strong, unless they can convince Nick Saban to come back to coaching.

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Wow. There is a real chance OU finishes 3-9 or 4-8 next season.

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