Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Helobious Is Giving Out Handjobs For DTs

[Vito Andolini 9,307]

3 minutes ago, RandomIdoit said:

siap

 

As long as you have that avatar, you can post as often as you want on any subject. Love is never having to say you’re sorry.

[gmr548 16,680]

1 hour ago, Teryor said:

More old friends

Feel like there were a few UT -> ASU transfers. Have any of them been contributors on their run this year?

[Teryor 4,779]

5 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Shanahan was a weird case, one of the services had him rated wildly differently ( on the plus side) than all the others, I think it was Rivals. He might have been considered the best player in the state. Narrator: he wasn’t. 

It was Rivals. I remember when his family moved to Austin either Roach or Holland was pumping him up super hard as a Texas prospect/potential future 5* too on 247 which they've done and missed on before (Preston Stone comes to mind). Just funny to me which prospects they get on super hard.

[Hank_Hill 19,486]

2 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Feel like there were a few UT -> ASU transfers. Have any of them been contributors on their run this year?

Alford is a starter. Omeire has 3 catches.

[Tex-19 2,942]

14 minutes ago, RandomIdoit said:

siap

 

Who are the schools? For us poors

[gmr548 16,680]

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

USC RB

He is good. Do want.

[closetojumping 64,731]

4 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

The most interesting portal entries so far for me are:

RB Ahmad Hardy, ULM
WR Eric Singleton, GaTech
WR Kevin Concepcion, NC St
WR Dane Key, Kentucky
WR Nic Anderson, OU, could pair well with Arch on deep passes
DL Hosea Wheeler, WKU
DL Parker Petersen, Tulane
DL Keeshawn Silver, Kentucky - as an over the ball body type
LB Jacon Manu, Arizona - Assuming he's recovering well and okay with backup/depth role
S Dillon Thieneman, Purdue


Anyone care to add any others? 

@closetojumping there is no shot we actually pursue Bear, right? 

No idea. Hope not. 

[Teryor 4,779]

We had offered

[6th Street 6,628]

Aside from DT and LB, a new kicker and punter are desperately needed. Any decent options? 

[Dbeasy 15,461]

3 hours ago, Red Five said:

Helluva job Bryant, Bledsoe, Ross, Swanson class. I think the best moment from any of them was one play from Ross against Rice last year. 

I have zero surprise at any of those four. I was not a fan when they signed, but that is all Texas could get at the time, I guess. 

[Teryor 4,779]

More former offers

[closetojumping 64,731]

Texas A&M now has lost 17 players to the portal and 2 declaring early for the draft. 

They signed 25 guys in this recruiting cycle. I have no idea how many seniors are out of eligibility and moving on. 

I also have no idea how many scholarship players they had this season. 

That all said, I’m assuming they have quite a few guys they’re going to need to transfer to ATM or they’re going to be very short again. 

This was a problem last year and they ended up having to jagger up. If these guys don’t crush it in the portal, they are truly going to suck next season. 

[FloridaHorn 4,864]

1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

Texas A&M now has lost 17 players to the portal and 2 declaring early for the draft. 

They signed 25 guys in this recruiting cycle. I have no idea how many seniors are out of eligibility and moving on. 

I also have no idea how many scholarship players they had this season. 

That all said, I’m assuming they have quite a few guys they’re going to need to transfer to ATM or they’re going to be very short again. 

This was a problem last year and they ended up having to jagger up. If these guys don’t crush it in the portal, they are truly going to suck next season. 

Oh look, somebody is worried about the numbers.

[FloridaHorn 4,864]

1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

Texas A&M now has lost 17 players to the portal and 2 declaring early for the draft. 

They signed 25 guys in this recruiting cycle. I have no idea how many seniors are out of eligibility and moving on. 

I also have no idea how many scholarship players they had this season. 

That all said, I’m assuming they have quite a few guys they’re going to need to transfer to ATM or they’re going to be very short again. 

This was a problem last year and they ended up having to jagger up. If these guys don’t crush it in the portal, they are truly going to suck next season. 

They have a serious problem unless they spend huge money and bring in 8-10 quality starters via the portal. 

[Wishbone 4,905]

2 hours ago, Teryor said:

More old friends

Tapped out?

[Coelenterate Fuccboi 13,296]

I have a feeling the Ags are going to go crazy in the portal. 

[westexhorn 2,137]

58 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Hopefully we don’t do that dumb shit where we wait to do visits and bring in players from portal and they end up at various other places and we offer them too late 

Agreed.  Just grab 1 elite speedster and be done with it.

[Atticus 4,162]

They should have gone crazy to land a better OC. 

[bad_teammate 13,448]

3 minutes ago, westexhorn said:

Agreed.  Just grab 1 elite speedster and be done with it.

I like freaking out internally about potentially missing out on a guy I hadn't even heard of until this morning. Sue me.

[Rickylovesweed 15,192]

32 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

They have a serious problem unless they spend huge money and bring in 8-10 quality starters via the portal. 

There aren't enough of those type players in the portal. 

 

[Davis Lane 5,910]

38 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Texas A&M now has lost 17 players to the portal and 2 declaring early for the draft. 

They signed 25 guys in this recruiting cycle. I have no idea how many seniors are out of eligibility and moving on. 

I also have no idea how many scholarship players they had this season. 

That all said, I’m assuming they have quite a few guys they’re going to need to transfer to ATM or they’re going to be very short again. 

This was a problem last year and they ended up having to jagger up. If these guys don’t crush it in the portal, they are truly going to suck next season. 

[Rickylovesweed 15,192]

29 minutes ago, Coelenterate Fuccboi said:

I have a feeling the Ags are going to go crazy in the portal. 

What's considered crazy?

They signed one of the top portal classes last year based purely on numbers. I expect something similar. A huge portal class with a bunch of jags and a couple decent to good transfers like Scouton. 

Edited Tuesday at 12:01 AM by Rickylovesweed

[tokamak 6,638]

37 minutes ago, Coelenterate Fuccboi said:

I have a feeling the Ags are going to go crazy in the portal. 

It's a good thing for them that no one else will be looking for quality players in the portal.

[NoName 17,003]

1 hour ago, Vito Andolini said:

Shanahan was a weird case, one of the services had him rated wildly differently ( on the plus side) than all the others, I think it was Rivals. He might have been considered the best player in the state. Narrator: he wasn’t. 

Comically over rated. Genuinely the most overrated player in the last decade+.

A five star who is completely un rated nationally by every other group is incredible and said all you needed to know then and now about rivals as a company.

Also lots of smoke he tried to jump on elsewhere as a recruit after he committed to a&m and everyone else said no.

[Vito Andolini 9,307]

Yeah, #19 in the nation, #1 in Texas, That’s an OL LOL.

[Tex-19 2,942]

Do yall think playoff teams are going to be a little slower hitting the portal? Seems like all of the visits I've seen are non-playoff teams, other than the one Ga Tech WR to UGA. 

[TXRed 3,585]

1 hour ago, 6th Street said:

Aside from DT and LB, a new kicker and punter are desperately needed. Any decent options? 

Utah’s punter seems to be the best one so far. Averaged 44.7 yards per punt and a long of 62. Second team all conference this year this year. 

[Redneck Mutha 8,139]

20 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

What's considered crazy?

They signed one of the top portal classes last year based purely on numbers. I expect something similar. A huge portal class with a bunch of jags and a couple decent to good transfers like Scouton. 

[NoName 17,003]

14 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Yeah, #19 in the nation, #1 in Texas, That’s an OL LOL.

Don't miss that they said he was an IOL too, not a tackle.

[Rimbo 26,714]

are we still talking about hot milfs or

[closetojumping 64,731]

31 minutes ago, NoName said:

Comically over rated. Genuinely the most overrated player in the last decade+.

A five star who is completely un rated nationally by every other group is incredible and said all you needed to know then and now about rivals as a company.

Also lots of smoke he tried to jump on elsewhere as a recruit after he committed to a&m and everyone else said no.

Yet another obvious bust that this board had a better handle on than any service. 

[texifornia 58,353]

1 hour ago, Hank_Hill said:

Alford is a starter. Omeire has 3 catches.

Dorbah had his name called a bunch in the Big XII championship 

[texifornia 58,353]

1 hour ago, 6th Street said:

Aside from DT and LB, a new kicker and punter are desperately needed. Any decent options? 

Someone up thread said there's smoke SMU's kicker is heading to Austin after they wrap up their season (hopefully before we do)

[Thiefery 5,068]

2 hours ago, Vito Andolini said:

Shanahan was a weird case, one of the services had him rated wildly differently ( on the plus side) than all the others, I think it was Rivals. He might have been considered the best player in the state. Narrator: he wasn’t. 

 

1 hour ago, Teryor said:

It was Rivals. I remember when his family moved to Austin either Roach or Holland was pumping him up super hard as a Texas prospect/potential future 5* too on 247 which they've done and missed on before (Preston Stone comes to mind). Just funny to me which prospects they get on super hard.

Rivals guys like Ketch and Dunlap were standing on soap boxes for this guy..

[Lonestar88 5,102]

2 hours ago, gmr548 said:

Feel like there were a few UT -> ASU transfers. Have any of them been contributors on their run this year?

 

2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Alford is a starter. Omeire has 3 catches.

Alford had a year at USC between his Texas and Arizona State seasons though. He’s the second leading tackler on ASU.

Swanson and Dorbah play a little bit, that’s pretty much it.

[closetojumping 64,731]

OU has 12 guys in the portal so far. That includes a starting CB, their leading receiver in Sharp, Nick Anderson, their 5 star starting QB, and two OLs who started this season. That’s not nothing. 

[Wulaw Horn 19,515]

1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

OU has 12 guys in the portal so far. That includes a starting CB, their leading receiver in Sharp, Nick Anderson, their 5 star starting QB, and two OLs who started this season. That’s not nothing. 

Oklahoma might take a long ass time to ever dig out- if they are ever able to scrape together money to win in the nil world. They could be wrecked with this and SEC added competition. Hate to see it. 

[linux 1,723]

1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

What's considered crazy?

They signed one of the top portal classes last year based purely on numbers. I expect something similar. A huge portal class with a bunch of jags and a couple decent to good transfers like Scouton. 

And a few incoming transfers got trap doored before the spring portal window opened if I recall. Didn't track if they did the same thing in April/May

[Navin R. Johnson 857]

1 hour ago, TXRed said:

Utah’s punter seems to be the best one so far. Averaged 44.7 yards per punt and a long of 62. Second team all conference this year this year. 

[BigHorn'13 3,470]

8 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Oklahoma might take a long ass time to ever dig out- if they are ever able to scrape together money to win in the nil world. They could be wrecked with this and SEC added competition. Hate to see it. 

In addition to aggy being aggy, and LSU Kelly'D, I am looking forward to all the struggles our regional competitors will have. 

[Fondren & Main 6,854]

12 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Oklahoma might take a long ass time to ever dig out- if they are ever able to scrape together money to win in the nil world. They could be wrecked with this and SEC added competition. Hate to see it. 

[Butch Had Not 3,035]

3 minutes ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

What's the punters non SLC average?

[Dewey 3,320]

I think it's going to be pretty funny watching some of these schools who can't afford to fire their coach, go big in the portal instead.  You still have to coach these teams. 

[Coelenterate Fuccboi 13,296]

1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

What's considered crazy?

Crazy: adjective

 

mentally deranged, especially as manifested in a wild or aggressive way.

 

Nobody is implying they are going to clean up. I’m talking irrational payments to questionable players.

 

[Thiefery 5,068]

25 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

OU has 12 guys in the portal so far. That includes a starting CB, their leading receiver in Sharp, Nick Anderson, their 5 star starting QB, and two OLs who started this season. That’s not nothing. 

their youtube people keep talking about how this is nothing because BV got a $15M check to grab difference makers in the portal.

 

Seems like they are Mateer or bust at QB..  Their WR coach has started offering WRs in the portal as well, WR out of Miami (OH) and has a WR from Arkansas Pine Bluff coming in for a visit too

[closetojumping 64,731]

3 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

their youtube people keep talking about how this is nothing because BV got a $15M check to grab difference makers in the portal.

 

Seems like they are Mateer or bust at QB..  Their WR coach has started offering WRs in the portal as well, WR out of Miami (OH) and has a WR from Arkansas Pine Bluff coming in for a visit too

That’s absurd as a premise regarding the $15M for the portal. 

1) $15M lands a complete roster for a year. Not Texas or Ohio State level, but next tier. 

2) There isn’t enough quality in the portal to merit spending 1/3 of that. Texas was aggressive last year and didn’t spend close to that. 

There is a ton of misinformation out there about the portal and its trappings at this point. 

[Carl Spackler 3,597]

39 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:

 

Alford had a year at USC between his Texas and Arizona State seasons though. He’s the second leading tackler on ASU.

Swanson and Dorbah play a little bit, that’s pretty much it.

Dorbah did play quite a bit in 2023 -- 30 total tackles and 6 sacks.  He was hurt for part of 2024, which is part of the reason his stats decreased significantly.    

[Schulz2.0 29,158]

7 hours ago, texifornia said:

General Booty, Fluff Bothwell, and Nitro Tuggle all hit the Portal today. Those are real humans.

Bothwell is intriguing. True freshman that put up a 111/832/13 line. 5-10, 220 power back.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/5220197/fluff-bothwell

[RomaVicta 30,373]

3 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Hopefully we don’t do that dumb shit where we wait to do visits and bring in players from portal and they end up at various other places and we offer them too late 

Yea. It's a big reason for how shitty we are this year.

[texifornia 58,353]