Regarding the Portal, It Could Always be Worse
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The Miami UteParticipant
Check this out…Through the first 72 hours of the portal being open, these schools lead the way in losing players: Arkansas (25), UCF (22), Purdue (22), Kentucky (20), Arizona (19), Nebraska (19), Mississippi State (19), Texas A&M (18), Arizona State (17) and Virginia Tech (17).
Four programs have been hit especially hard when it comes to starters lost — Purdue (seven full-time starters), Arkansas (five), Kentucky (four) and Virginia Tech (four).
Kentucky’s departures are especially notable — receivers Dane Key (36 career starts) and Barion Brown (26), tight end Jordan Dingle (21) and defensive lineman Keeshawn Silver (23).
Bottom line, all schools go through the same process and a lot of schools are doing a lot worse than Utah.
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Rick WalkerParticipant
I’m pretty sure Utah is up there with 20 portal entries
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TednabParticipant
Only thing that matters is the quality of losses and gains
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chinngiskhaanParticipant
yep. The scrubs are just place holders, and are easily replaceable with other scrubs that won’t see the field. It may hurt the overall quality of our team, but the on field product will remain largely unaffected.
Its the starters that matter, and we haven’t lost anyone to the portal that we can’t replace with little difficulty. The biggest one is our punter probably.
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XanthisParticipant
Biggest is Calhoun. We have a great track record with DBs, but you still don’t want to lose ones that start. Punter was already replaced with the new K signee. He also punted in HS.
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USS UtahParticipant
I saw a list where Utah was at 18.
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TednabParticipant
Bigger question is how many quality players are in the portal and will it be enough to substantially improve this team .. we’re off to a good start with a good QB although we need some decent depth .. concern is he’s a running QB combine with our injury record doesn’t bode well for us
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GameForAnyFussParticipant
You missed a big one: Marshall’s ENTIRE TEAM entered the portal.
https://thespun.com/college-football/entire-college-football-team-is-entering-transfer-portal
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
@gameforanyfuss I see the record in the logs of you attempting to post a link. I’ve marked you/it as not spam so you could try again. Unfortunately because of spammers and bots I have to have “protection” and sometimes it gets non spam posts wrong. I also un-spammed several other users.
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GameForAnyFussParticipant
Thanks for fixing! I updated the original post.
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OmahaOmahaParticipant
So basically, he’s taking the entire team to Southern Miss. Marshall’s essentially building a team as if it were coming off the death penalty.
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utefansince79Participant
Lots of players entering the portal from teams that still have game(s) left to play.
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
Which is wrong. They need to change the portal dates.
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XanthisParticipant
Would be nice if the portal opened after bowl season. Plenty of kids on those teams that played a few snaps, but did the work all season grinding the scout team that will enter the portal. They should also be rewarded with the bowl experience if they want it.
I think the reason the portal is setup the way it is now is to line up with the academic calendar for most universities.
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Jim VanderhoofParticipant
Thanks Miami. Could be worse. We may have to change the “family” chant at the start of the 4th quarter to “NIL”.
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concernedParticipant
Yes. It is so transfers can enroll for spring semester
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DataUteParticipant
That’s a good point. Kiffin and others have hoped it would be after bowl games/CFP, but that is too late to land a spot and get in place to enroll (not like the academic side has really mattered much lately). Maybe they should just have one late spring so they can see how things are going, they finish the school year, then they move during the summer in time for fall ball. I guess some schools want them in place to get spring and fall practice, but right now, it’s kind of messy with HS signing, Portal, then bowls (which really are just exhibition with the CFP anyway).
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lgt4141Participant
Or just start calling college sports “NIL”?
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lgt4141Participant
Funny how looking at the data puts things in perspective. Thanks for posting.
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