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2025-26 #PortalSZN Thread

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Feb 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Bingo. And keep in mind through all of this - we took a small HS class planning to solve a lot of problems through the portal. THAT is why people are losing it so fast on this.

We have 0 base of HS players this off-season and when impact players at positions of need are announcing left and right we aren't being mentioned, in fact we are being bumped for other visits. There is still plenty of time to make some impact acquisitions, but the optics are bad out of the gate. And we keep having those bad optics.

This doesn't mean the portal is a loss for us yet, though. I still believe very much that Rhule always has a plan. Just expectantly waiting to see that plan flawlessly enacted.
This idea of being patient because the portal is open for 2 weeks and then kids can commit after that is crazy.

The serious programs have been treating the portal as being open for the past 6 weeks. The portal opens and their guys take a visit to sign the paperwork.

The best players are in and out of the portal essentially in the first weekend.

Nebraska didn’t appear to be a serious player in the portal.

They punted on 2026 recruiting which is also INSANE.

Just a disaster.
 
What’s crazy to me is all these teams are getting portal guys to commit at a fairly good clip.
No they absolutely aren't.

Everyone sees a few headlines about Indiana & thinks that's happening everywhere. As of 15 minutes ago, 45% of teams haven't signed a single transfer. 70% of teams haven't signed more than 1.

A handful of teams have had been active - most of them with head coaching turnover. The #1 team in the nation & the team with the deepest pockets in the nation have been the outliers, and everyone goes full potato.
 
What’s crazy to me is all these teams are getting portal guys to commit at a fairly good clip.
Meanwhile Nebraska is letting all these guys they had first crack at leave and visit someone else.

Once they leave they don’t seem to ever come back.
That’s the difference. Nebraska had 14 guys here over the weekend. 2 committed. Maybe there’s 1-2 more, but dudes seem to be announcing once it’s done. No point being a silent commit as a transfer.
 
Bingo. And keep in mind through all of this - we took a small HS class planning to solve a lot of problems through the portal. THAT is why people are losing it so fast on this.

We have 0 base of HS players this off-season and when impact players at positions of need are announcing left and right we aren't being mentioned, in fact we are being bumped for other visits. There is still plenty of time to make some impact acquisitions, but the optics are bad out of the gate. And we keep having those bad optics.

This doesn't mean the portal is a loss for us yet, though. I still believe very much that Rhule always has a plan. Just expectantly waiting to see that plan flawlessly enacted.
I question the philosophy in portal talent acquisition.
 
Man wouldn’t it be nice for Nebraska to even be good enough to get beat down in a playoff game.

Tech isn’t getting any worse. They were only investing in the portal, now they are doing it at the high school recruiting as well.
Bootleg - I normally am with you. But I think you're getting infected by the overall bitchy tone around here.

If we got our asses beat down in a Playoff game people would be saying "see, Rhule can win in the regular season, but never will in the postseason. Only postseason he can win is the Bad Boy Mower Pinstripe bowl - GET HIM THE FUCK OUT" and you know it
 
Fuck TTU if we’re being honest
episode 11 eddie GIF
 
Bootleg - I normally am with you. But I think you're getting infected by the overall bitchy tone around here.

If we got our asses beat down in a Playoff game people would be saying "see, Rhule can win in the regular season, but never will in the postseason. Only postseason he can win is the Bad Boy Mower Pinstripe bowl - GET HIM THE FUCK OUT" and you know it
I do not agree. I think getting to the playoff would be a major accomplishment and one that people could see as a significant step in the right direction. In doing so, he would have had to overcome part of the narrative on him now and had to beat ranked teams.
 
I’d say we “see” way more than 5%.
Recurring portal is more business meetings and recruiting hs kids.

We don’t see the negotiations and what teams spend but agents and players are pretty open books about where they plan to visit because it drives up negotiations.
they are also floating bullshit and false info for the same reason. And some guys don't want everyone knowing who all their clients are seeing because they may want to preserve an offer while they look for a better one.

And we don't know what our board looks like. Basically, not a clue.
 
Bingo. And keep in mind through all of this - we took a small HS class planning to solve a lot of problems through the portal. THAT is why people are losing it so fast on this.
I do not believe this is factually correct. We long planned to take a small class because we had a roster full of young guys we didn't want to cut loose - we wanted them to develop and get old together.

I never heard anyone even suggest that it was done to leave room for a big portal class until the last two months.
 
LSU missed a guy? They should fire Lane and burn the whole fucking thing down. They don't even have an offensive staff hired yet and the portal opened...How incompetent can you be?

Am I doing this right?
I think they do have an offensive staff and there is growing tension that they aren't being allowed to prep for the CFP Semis with Ole Miss due to recruiting efforts at LSU.
 
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