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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
the question about your analysis is this: Was Minchey so attractive because they liked him the best or because he gave them the best ROI at the expected cost?

In other words, if we knew we'd have to pay 2.5M, would we rather have Chiles or Colandrea, for example, than Minchey because they might have a higher gross return?

I don't think we'll have to pay Lateef anything more. He'll be better off with a one and done. Has nothing to complain about.
I think they saw mINCHey as an unknown that they could get at a good value that would have to "compete" with LaQueef and allow NU to not have to pay more money to LaQueef to match mINCHey so the "competition" would be real.

Now, I think they will need to up LaQueef's money to keep him in the room. He'll likely only stay one more year then portal out if Trae Taylor does sign with NU.

This is just my thought process. I have no knowledge on actual happenings.
 
I think they saw mINCHey as an unknown that they could get at a good value that would have to "compete" with LaQueef and allow NU to not have to pay more money to LaQueef to match mINCHey so the "competition" would be real.

Now, I think they will need to up LaQueef's money to keep him in the room. He'll likely only stay one more year then portal out if Trae Taylor does sign with NU.

This is just my thought process. I have no knowledge on actual happenings.
You definitely dont up Lateef money if you sign UNLV kid
 
Do you think signing or not signing a back up QB will make the difference? In fact, couldn’t letting one player walk actually potentially help us sign more quality players?
You’re strawmanning and associating negative connotations to anyone that correctly realizes the total portal effort so far has been insufficient in acquiring the number/quality of players necessary to meaningfully improve this team relative to the status quo of mediocrity. Considering there are a limited number of impactful players in the critical positions of need (of which we need many), the longer this program waits the options available increasingly dwindle especially considering a large fraction of portal recruiting has already been occurring since the beginning of December.

Finishing outside the top 5 of the total class rankings is not a serious effort for a team that urgently needs talent across the board right now.
 
You definitely dont up Lateef money if you sign UNLV kid
If you can get away with not increasing his money then you obviously don't. But you can't lose him at this point to the portal. I think they only way you guarantee he doesn't portal is if you allow for an open competition. That's more costly to do with an established starter.
 
Kentucky promised he would be the starter. We did not.
That’s possible. Honestly, I’m not sure I believe anything coming out about this kid, especially that we offered more than Kentucky.

The kid is getting blasted on social media. His agent could be trying to save a little face for him and floating out garbage.

I don’t know if that’s the case but nothing would surprise me in this whole situation.
 
If you can get away with not increasing his money then you obviously don't. But you can't lose him at this point to the portal. I think the only way you guarantee he doesn't portal is if you allow for an open competition. That's more costly to do with an established starter.
Disagree. He’s not ready and didn’t warrant more money from his play. Let him leave he’s not getting more money anywhere he goes
 
You’re strawmanning and associating negative connotations to anyone that correctly realizes the total portal effort so far has been insufficient in acquiring the number/quality of players necessary to meaningfully improve this team relative to the status quo of mediocrity. Considering there are a limited number of impactful players in the critical positions of need (of which we need many), the longer this program waits the options available increasingly dwindle especially considering a large fraction of portal recruiting has already been occurring since the beginning of December.

Finishing outside the top 5 of the total class rankings is not a serious effort for a team that urgently needs talent across the board right now.
Nothing you said addresses what I said in my post. And I’m not strawmanning when I could pull at least 10 examples from today of people making the exact argument I’m parodying.
 
That’s possible. Honestly, I’m not sure I believe anything coming out about this kid, especially that we offered more than Kentucky.

The kid is getting blasted on social media. His agent could be trying to save a little face for him and floating out garbage.

I don’t know if that’s the case but nothing would surprise me in this whole situation.
Good lol
 
Nothing you said addresses what I said in my post. And I’m not strawmanning when I could pull at least 10 examples from today of people making the exact argument I’m parodying.
I didn’t address the core content of your post because your post also had nothing to do with what I said. I didn’t make a comment about paying Minchey $4million. I don’t know what Nebraska or Kentucky offered him and neither do you.
 
Disagree. He’s not ready and didn’t warrant more money from his play. Let him leave he’s not getting more money anywhere he goes
I agree that he's not ready to play QB at NU. I don't think he'll ever be "THE" guy at NU. I just know that you can't let him portal and have zero QB room depth. You can't have 1 scholarship QB on the roster.

The real fuckery in this is the Dayton situation. It has really messed up the room. It's actually a bigger issue than Dylan leaving and I was a Dylan supporter.
 
Things are moving pretty fast so I'm a bit out of it but are we pushing for a top tier RB? DL/OL/QB I think should be the focus but I don't love our current RB room.
 
Something tells me we aren’t bringing in guys whose asking price we aren’t willing to pay.
I fully agree. It would be different, of course, if he was surprised by a new offer that was bigger than he expected to get.

I am not sure if I believe Olson as I have seen other stuff to the contrary from sources that at least I consider to be reliable. But if he is right, that is a bigger problem, right? That means we can't get people to come here even if we pay the most. There have been some other alleged examples of that already.
 
I agree that he's not ready to play QB at NU. I don't think he'll ever be "THE" guy at NU. I just know that you can't let him portal and have zero QB room depth. You can't have 1 scholarship QB on the roster.

The real fuckery in this is the Dayton situation. It has really messed up the room. It's actually a bigger issue than Dylan leaving and I was a Dylan supporter.
It’s a crappy situation but it’s not an unsual situation for a lot of teams.
If Dylan had stayed tj would have left and we still have 1 qb. We are just wading through the mess of 3rd string qbs trying to decide who isn’t total ass
 
It’s a crappy situation but it’s not an unsual situation for a lot of teams.
If Dylan had stayed tj would have left and we still have 1 qb. We are just wading through the mess of 3rd string qbs trying to decide who isn’t total ass
every board I go to is complaining they can't get enough QBs
 
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