1 minute ago, Bunk Moreland said:

Would be interesting if the blue bloods stop investing significant NIL in all but a few elite high school recruits, leading the G5 to act as a minor league or developmental league. The blue bloods can then re-invest in the recruits that pan out at the G5 level. That would be wise from an ROI perspective.

Exactly my thought. The knock on effects of what’s happening right now are going to be fascinating. 
 

A complete restructuring is happening right now for almost all major title contenders.

Edited January 8Jan 8 by DiggsTX

I go to grab lunch and come back to Ffrench and Zina leaving. Damn this is crazy.

I don't expect to win every portal recruitment - but what are we winning at right now? 10% of them?

I also don't expect us to retain every player, but we're headed to a scenario where 30% of the current roster turns over in the portal alone. Not including players declaring or otherwise out of eligibility.

Hard not to call a spade a spade on that one.

Whoever A&M is bringing in on the offensive line isn't as good as the guys that are graduating and we won the LOS the last two years in a row so I'm not particularly worried about who they're bringing in tbh. 

Edited January 8Jan 8 by SimGent

I’m thinking some people should log off until the portal is closed then look and see it’s not all doom and gloom. 

Just now, Bobby Burton said:

The PORTAL is still OPEN. Wait until the dust settles at some level.

Hey, I’m all about that mantra. I’m on team patience is a virtue. Hope they can pull it together.

Just now, Deep in the heart said:

I go to grab lunch and come back to Ffrench and Zina leaving. Damn this is crazy.

Ffrench isn’t a bad loss Zina is imo 

Getting Zion per Nakos

Just now, SimGent said:

Whoever A&M is bringing in on the offensive line isn't as good as the guys that are graduating and we won the LOS the last two years in a row so I'm not particularly worried about who they're brining in tbh. 

 

This simply isn't true. Texas' hope is that they can upgrade the offensive line in 2026. Wouldn't A&M's hope be the same? 

21 minutes ago, TexasDynasty3 said:

Because 3 guys who don’t play are leaving??

He is in love with our bench.  they put up crazy stats in practice and the amount of water they drank during the games was top of the list.  

JK JK - Hate to see them go, but Washington got passed up by the eoy.  Ffrench was the bottom of the wr pecking order.  Zina hurts but he wasn't going to be a starter next year.  

1 minute ago, TheRoJoShow said:

Getting Zion per Nakos

1 minute ago, kirktex said:

Ffrench isn’t a bad loss Zina is imo 

Ffrench means nothing. Was buried. If we lose Lockett, Wingo or Mccutch, we have a major problem.

I know at the end of the day Texas will be fine, as the attrition we are experiencing is similar to the other Blue Bloods within the sport.. but man this sucks. It’s not fun, and just does not feel like the college football I’ve known in my entire life. Yes, things change. This is not for the better. College football was special because it was different than the NFL. Regionality and loyalty mattered. No more. 

James Simon and Emaree next is my guess. I’d probably also bet on Kobe heading out. I’m still standing strong that will be fine but this is gonna take some getting used to. 

20 minutes ago, akhookem said:

If that’s the case we should stop recruiting those guys. Paid him tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands to come to Texas for a year and he contributed absolutely nothing.

College football has changed drastically from last off season to this one.  We got him with the expectations of keeping him a couple of years at least and trying to develop him.  Those days are gone unfortunately.  

I wonder how long after the portal closes are the are the ADs and commissioners are having a meeting to try and fix this mess.

1 minute ago, Josh Marion said:

I know at the end of the day Texas will be fine, as the attrition we are experiencing is similar to the other Blue Bloods within the sport.. but man this sucks. It’s not fun, and just does not feel like the college football I’ve known in my entire life. Yes, things change. This is not for the better. College football was special because it was different than the NFL. Regionality and loyalty mattered. No more. 

Gotta love the name on the front and not the name on the back.   it sucks but it's gonna be rare to have those lifers anymore unless they are elite.  I don't know if we have another Jonathan brooks anymore that sacrificed for the team and waiting their turns.  

16 minutes ago, pinkman_90 said:

Couldn’t make up a more aggy looking person/name that Wilkin Formby

Heard they're looking at Cletus Sheephumper from Arkansas State as well.

Not sure how many years of portalling its going to take before fans realize losing an 8th string 5 star WR is actually a good thing.

He's certainly not worth the NIL he was signed for out of HS.  Modern reality of football and its helpful for top rosters to churn players like that.

 

To date Texas has lost about 1 player that we should really be sweating losing. 

1 minute ago, randolurker said:

I wonder how long after the portal closes are the are the ADs and commissioners are having a meeting to try and fix this mess.

hopefully ADs are already talking behind the scenes about this mess.  None of them can like this.  CFB cannot survive every offseason being a free for all.  Coaches will rather go to the NFL where they have structure behind the madness.

1 minute ago, BVH said:

Not sure how many years of portalling its going to take before fans realize losing an 8th string 5 star WR is actually a good thing.

He's certainly not worth the NIL he was signed for out of HS.  Modern reality of football and its helpful for top rosters to churn players like that.

 

To date Texas has lost about 1 player that we should really be sweating losing. 

Fair, but only if we reallocate that $$ with value. 

1 minute ago, MikeH said:

Heard they're looking at Cletus Sheephumper from Arkansas State as well.

He started 4 games and slept with only 1 of his sisters. Elite prospect

 

The transfer portal needs to hit the transfer portal. Over this garbage.

this is gonna be a mess for the HS recruits btw.
They talked about it already on coffe & football this morning and I couldn't agree more.
Think everyone will shrink their roster... no point in having 105 guys just to have 30 or 40 leave every year.

Edited January 8Jan 8 by diegozanna20

1 minute ago, TheRoJoShow said:

Fair, but only if we reallocate that $$ with value. 

Rumors he is making $700k.   We can easily reallocate that to better purposes.