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2025-26 #PortalSZN Thread

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Feb 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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  1. Seaofred92 Seaofred92
No offense to this young man, he may be a great player. But with all the options of MUCH higher caliber players, if this is the kind of player we’re going after in the portal, just shut this shit down. It kind of seems to be the case as we’re barely making noise in the portal at this point.
We have one more year of this and then we have to hope we can do better than get a Head coach good enough to get our hopes up but not good enough to actually win a lot in the Big Ten. Please not another head coach who will hire his lesser/inexperienced buddies for the AC roles because they were good enough at whatever G5 school he came from. Groundhog Day.
 
if the assistants move every year they won't have relationships strong enough to bring anyone.

The bigger problem is that when a team like SDSU achieves at the level they did this year on defense, everyone knows about it and is already reaching out to the players.
And yet, miraculously, Oklahoma State has Mestemaker, Hawkins, and the starting North Texas OT from last year on board and is going to land the UNT #1 WR Young. Mestemaker and Hawkins could’ve gone anywhere in the country and Young isn’t far behind.
 
I say we just burn it all down. The school needs to focus on gender studies, not toxic, aggressive "sports".
 
And yet, miraculously, Oklahoma State has Mestemaker, Hawkins, and the starting North Texas OT from last year on board and is going to land the UNT #1 WR Young. Mestemaker and Hawkins could’ve gone anywhere in the country and Young isn’t far behind.
Yeah, bringing players along definitely works at a higher level when it is the HCs that move instead of the assistants.. There is a much better chance than new place will feel/be like the old one.
 
Yeah, bringing players along definitely works at a higher level when it is the HCs that move instead of the assistants.. There is a much better chance than new place will feel/be like the old one.
I do think the HC v Assistant piece is fair but not by any means insurmountable and thus is part of the reason I am frustrated with how the situation has played out with the SDSU guys and Nebraska
 
agreed,, It's easy to be very emotional here on the internet w/out millions of our own money on the line.

most good business men aren't doubling down on an already perceived "bad investment"..

if I was said millionaire/billionaire.. I definitely would not be committing more resources to a product that rhule has displayed so far.
Tech did with McGuire. Seemed to work out
 
agreed,, It's easy to be very emotional here on the internet w/out millions of our own money on the line.

most good business men aren't doubling down on an already perceived "bad investment"..
Plus our administration put the university into a worse predicament extending Rhule which was just stupid. It’s going to be harder to fire him after next year due to a huge buy out when we likely don’t make a bowl game.
 
Plus our administration put the university into a worse predicament extending Rhule which was just stupid. It’s going to be harder to fire him after next year due to a huge buy out when we likely don’t make a bowl game.
motivational bob marley GIF
 
Plus we’re still reportedly “working” to get transfer portal prospects to visit vs being lined up like other schools to visit day 1. I think without booster over spend our outlook is pretty poor for next season. I do not see them popping due to a bunch of great hidden gems that they’ve developed and the ones we thought may work out like Keone are partaling.
We had 9 portal visits scheduled within the first day of the portal opening.

I guarantee you every school is “working” to get visits set up with guys as we speak.
 
I follow your reasoning. It may well be right. But it may turn out to be wrong as we get more data over the next two weeks. All we know is what is in the public domain which is very likely a small piece of the existing data.
Agree @Seaofred92 on pretty much all of it and yeah…two days in, it seems we don’t really have anything to base success or lack thereof yet.
 
Based on results were the equivalent of the Cubs. Top overall revenue, best fan base that travels that you could ask for, best facilities. Poor AD historically, poor investment and selection of coaches, to soft and tight following the rules handicaps the program.

Look back at when TO took over as interim AD. He said coaching salaries where to high and selected a cheap option in Pelini vs the best we could get. It’s been fuck up after fuck up with the same crowd running the show for decades. It’s a cash cow money maker that is halfa$$ed in a number of areas.
You gotta admit, his coaching hire doesn’t look to bad now compared to what we’ve had.
 
You gotta admit, his coaching hire doesn’t look to bad now compared to what we’ve had.
Which is pretty sad. Point was we had money back then but went the cheap route vs proven winner or close to it that would’ve brought infrastructure etc. Bo did well with the Callahan recruits and then it fell apart.
 
You gotta admit, his coaching hire doesn’t look to bad now compared to what we’ve had.
go back in time & I wouldn’t hire Bo. There’s a reason Youngstown state was the only one who wanted him & calling in a favor at LSU to get back into the P5 which was a disaster. Now he claims to not be coaching cuz of his stance against NIL & the state of cfb lmao
 
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