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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
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.
 
Cignetti so far today -

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Winning cures everything
 
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
 
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.
He couldn’t recruit against legitimate coaches. He avoided every prospect that was being recruited by successful programs & went after the ones with schools he had a leg up on.

It was a great way to ruin any depth we had on the roster & why Mike Riley had Freshmen tackles & walk on DEs starting
 
Just an awful, awful start to this portal season for us. Can't say that I'm surprised though.
Two days into the portal we have a top ten portal QB and the #6 LB in the portal per On3. We have had ten guys visit most of whom just finished today, so we don't know how things went as yet on all those visits. But, for almost all those guys, we got the first visit.

The recruiting staffer was signaling in the afternoon and seemed to be suggesting we already have four guys.

I don't get it.
 
Our big boosters must have shit for brains if they think not spending will somehow motivate Rhule to coach better 🤣 You have to spend, every year, unless you 100% know you are firing your coach next season. Outside of that, you have to spend, holding money back cause mad we didn’t win enough will just get us further behind.

If that is of course what our booster are thinking. I hope they’re not that stupid. 🤞🏼
“Scared money don’t make money. “
-Coach Ek
 
Some of the posters ITT need a Red Sea Scrolls badge with the level of bitching. The portal has been open for 2-days and and it is already over and a complete and utter failure from these responses. JFC.
With the reports Nebraska was heavy in the tampering, bringing a DC in who could’ve brought more top players with him and allegedly having money to spend I think the expectations were a little bit higher than they should’ve been.
 
Two days into the portal we have a top ten portal QB and the #6 LB in the portal per On3. We have had ten guys visit most of whom just finished today, so we don't know how things went as yet on all those visits. But, for almost all those guys, we got the first visit.

I don't get it.
Minchey and Chambliss are great adds. Most of the other visitors seemed pretty 'meh'. Yes, I get that some of them are being looked at as depth pieces.

We've got so many holes to fill and it just doesn't seem like we're going to get what we need to be a winning team next year. Still some time, but I think it's safe to say that we're not where we needed to be. A couple nice surprises could change the outlook though.
 
Two days into the portal we have a top ten portal QB and the #6 LB in the portal per On3. We have had ten guys visit most of whom just finished today, so we don't know how things went as yet on all those visits. But, for almost all those guys, we got the first visit.

The recruiting staffer was signaling in the afternoon and seemed to be suggesting we already have four guys.

I don't get it.
Agreed, not ready to start declaring this a failure. Way too early.
 
I get people are pissed and I'm not happy with the state of things either, but this thread is depressing.

Will Rhule succeed with this reset? It's not looking promising, but I hope he gets it right, because I want to see this program succeed again sooner rather than later.
 
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It's brutal. This place was created to escape all this crap...but somehow we let it in.

I guess we need to create an Unobtainium Board or something...
I’m not a member of other boards but this one doesn’t seem bad, seems like a normal split of people who think things are going well and fans who don’t. Suppose you could start a sunshine and rainbows board?
 
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