***CFB Transfer Portal 2022-23 thread***
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Yea Purdue is a bit of a head scratcher.
I haven't seen who Purdue is hiring as the OC or QB coach. Drew Brees is with the team for their upcoming bowl game. Would be curious if he has a role on the new staff.
Agree. I think he looked better than Ewers most games. Could be a good get depending on the system they go with.
demoncore1031
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I don’t know…a lot of this transfer hype seems like a big nothing burger, especially for non-blue blood schools. I’m talking strictly football here.
Let’s face it: most of the guys that transfer out are guys that haven’t seen much playing time. Most of the guys we get in either are coming from a P5 where they didn’t do a whole lot at their old school, or they’re decent guys from a smaller school and unproven at this level. It almost feels like I’m watching a glorified garage sale: most teams are just trading mediocre/unhappy players among themselves and it doesn’t really move the needle much for anybody 99% of the time. Good players will get taken care of by their respective schools with NIL to keep them from leaving (or they go to the NFL). Mediocre or unknown players- they get the ‘ol ‘we wish [insert player name here] the best and are grateful for his time here’ speech.
Sure, there are the occasional big transfers here and there, and they seldom go to non-blue bloods…I guess I’m over the transfer hype and if I’m CMC, would pay about zero attention to the annual rummage sale known as the transfer portal.
I think it’s fun as a fan to speculate that this new player is going to come to our school and suddenly learn how to play college football after not really doing much at his old school- but again, not moving the needle from what I’m seeing.
Let’s face it: most of the guys that transfer out are guys that haven’t seen much playing time. Most of the guys we get in either are coming from a P5 where they didn’t do a whole lot at their old school, or they’re decent guys from a smaller school and unproven at this level. It almost feels like I’m watching a glorified garage sale: most teams are just trading mediocre/unhappy players among themselves and it doesn’t really move the needle much for anybody 99% of the time. Good players will get taken care of by their respective schools with NIL to keep them from leaving (or they go to the NFL). Mediocre or unknown players- they get the ‘ol ‘we wish [insert player name here] the best and are grateful for his time here’ speech.
Sure, there are the occasional big transfers here and there, and they seldom go to non-blue bloods…I guess I’m over the transfer hype and if I’m CMC, would pay about zero attention to the annual rummage sale known as the transfer portal.
I think it’s fun as a fan to speculate that this new player is going to come to our school and suddenly learn how to play college football after not really doing much at his old school- but again, not moving the needle from what I’m seeing.
I like that move honestly. The B1G West QBs were bad this year and there will be a reset at a lot of those schools at this position.
If Purdue can get a good OC they should still compete.
So we're just gonna sit here and say guys like X, Isheem, Anderson, and Petteway werent good gets?
And if we're gonna be the Fran McCafferys of the football world at Iowa State, how are we upgrading talent on the offense then? You really want to go into next year with the same OL? Noel and Stanley get to be our top 2 WRs? We aint winning 6 games like that
I knew I’d catch some heat for X…rightfully so. X was a terrific get, but overall, it’s a lot more misses and a lot less impact on us than I had first thought it would be. X was an exception…pun absolutely intended.
The guys we’ve lost, specifically Isheem last year, have had almost no impact on our team. Our defense was spectacular this year without him. Would we have like to have Isheem and Craig McDonald this year- sure, but did our defense skip a beat? I don’t think we did.
Overall- transfer portal: not the game-changer I thought it would be.
Was Xavier a "transfer"? He was a JuCo transfer but that's a little different, he was not a transfer from another 4-year institution. He would have never entered in the thing we know as the Portal.
Hutchison came out of JUCO. He didn’t come from the transfer portal from another D-1 school.
They’re have been some decent ones, with X being the exception, X was spectacular. Overall though- not the game changer it was thought it would be.
As far as winning games, if you believed that it was going to save us from ourselves, that was a serious miscalculation on your end. Nothing changes- we still need to recruit and develop good talent and if we don’t, like at the O-line, we’ll pay the price. The only thing that will fix our O-line is better coaching, better coaching, and better coaching. We have recruited several high 3-star lineman over the years and even some 4 star linemen. It’s up to the coaches to develop them and win with them. Transfer portal can’t fix that.
Agreed- I lumped him in with a transfer since he was a JUCO transfer, but that’s correct, he wasn’t a transfer portal transfer.
Let me guess, you probably don’t like our black uniforms either, do you?
