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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Eloi! Eloi, lama sabachthani!

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49 minutes ago, Cap Hooked said:

Everyone here is going to be eating a lot of crow very soon when they learn "all in" means stealing half of Indiana's national championship team right from under them. O Line and all

Meh. They'd come here and immediately start sucking.

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8 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

According to On3…..There are 2,543 IOL in the portal. 27% have committed elsewhere. We can’t find 3 to help us?

Every year I believe only 40% the players that enter the portal at D1 actually end up staying at D1 level school. i think 40% remain in the portal after it closes. thats from a study at northwestern.
We will find spots to fill, just missing on the top layers of our choice.
Portal Study from Northwestern

8 hours ago, Drifterwood said:

yeah, while a heated battle between Neto and Stroh was taking place on the other side of the line…

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it’s not like we can just sprinkle Portal Fairy cum on the situation and make it all better.

Sark really might not be the guy! Flood may have just killed us all

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18 minutes ago, Frank Hammer said:

Every year I believe only 40% the players that enter the portal at D1 actually end up staying at D1 level school. i think 40% remain in the portal after it closes. thats from a study at northwestern.
We will find spots to fill, just missing on the top layers of our choice.
Portal Study from Northwestern

This season, almost 40% of the entire FBS rosters have entered the portal. Nothing close to that has been the case in the past. We're seeing many more entrants than WRs, QBs, a few mercenaries and a bunch of spares. If a program is not using the talent available in the portal to enrich their program, the odds are that their roster is being used to enrich others.

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What I wouldn't do for a Parker Braun or Calvin Anderson to walk through those doors...

1 minute ago, Tylerocks said:

What I wouldn't do for a Parker Braun or Calvin Anderson to walk through those doors...

Flood would pass.

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Adams earned a 64.2 pass blocking grade and a 48.1 run blocking grade for the Tigers last season, according to PFF.

Last year, Baugh received a 60.8 pass blocking grade and a 55.9 run blocking grade, per PFF.

He (Echols) received a 70.6 pass blocking grade and a 51.5 run blocking grade, per the analytics site.

The OL guys we got coming in earned a 00.00 pass blocking grade and 00.00 run blocking grade last season, per PFF.

8 hours ago, Cooterhorn said:

Thank you, Gene 🙏 *Gene Hackman in “The Replacements” (2000 ...

Hire this guy, he surely has a list of unexpected players from outside CFB to bring in to play OL.

Ah, he dead. Died in a tragically bizarre mishap after Tom Homan’s crew drug his Mexican caretaker/maid out of the house screaming “Mr Gene, feed the dog”.

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Adams earned a 64.2 pass blocking grade and a 48.1 run blocking grade for the Tigers last season, according to PFF.

Last year, Baugh received a 60.8 pass blocking grade and a 55.9 run blocking grade, per PFF.

He (Echols) received a 70.6 pass blocking grade and a 51.5 run blocking grade, per the analytics site.

Yep. Scrubs. Don’t need them. Connor Broh types

8 hours ago, ATXbronco said:

Wasn't it assumed to be Cojoe's position to lose?

Over the five star highly paid Baker? No, I don’t think so.

8 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

Who?

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7 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

Yeah but Michael Dickson was legit.

Yeah, but that should never happen, regardless of how good a punter is.

8 hours ago, BlackCat said:

Im getting shitfaced on this stuff after today

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So much that you fall down?

3 minutes ago, IBuryPaul said:

Ah, he dead. Died in a tragically bizarre mishap after Tom Homan’s crew drug his Mexican caretaker/maid out of the house screaming “Mr Gene, feed the dog”.

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I can think of 3 good reasons why this isnt a good idea:

1) The Russian wheat harvest isnt gonna be as bad as everyone thinks

2) ??????????

3) Judging by the jewels hanging around your girls neck, youre gonna need every penny just to keep her happy

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Allegrio supposedly makes his decision today. Ohio State feels really good about it.

Brown is on campus and could announce something today if it is good news. Bad news would be heading home "with a lot to think about".

Ulauvoavoau is on campus today, expect Texas to give him "a lot to think about".

New OL targets will be announced and discussed right here!

Bo Jackson may enter the portal, leaving Ohio State. He wants a big new deal and they're balking. Sound familiar? That dude is better than Clark, Wisner, whomever at Texas other than potentially Cooper. Everyone is going through this near the top of the sport.

There are a bunch of good Safeties out there, so traction there might be a thing.

I'm sure Cam Coleman "has a lot to think about" with Tech allegedly offering to double the Texas number. I'm writing him off.

Anywho ...

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Adams earned a 64.2 pass blocking grade and a 48.1 run blocking grade for the Tigers last season, according to PFF.

Last year, Baugh received a 60.8 pass blocking grade and a 55.9 run blocking grade, per PFF.

He (Echols) received a 70.6 pass blocking grade and a 51.5 run blocking grade, per the analytics site.

Thank you. If we wanted we could pay for Tegra Tshabola, who’s incorrectly rated more highly on the transfer portal sites, but had absolutely atrocious PFF scores this past season in a handful of games and was told to kick rocks by OSU. On paper tho, “experience and starts at the P4 level!”

Ian Boyd: Is Texas quietly building a championship secondary?

While Texas fans fret over the relative lack of action on offense in the transfer portal, the defense has been very busy. Not all of the action has been in the transfer portal, very little in fact, but by the time the staff had secured the commitment of Rutgers cornerback Bo Mascoe it was simply the final touches on a masterclass offseason for the defensive backfield. As a quick review, first Texas fired Pete Kwiatkowski and Duane Akina and brought in Will Muschamp and Blake Gideon to replace them.

Meanwhile safety Jelani McDonald determined to return for another year and played a great game in the Citrus Bowl against the Michigan Wolverines. His fellow safety Derek Williams, who originally planned to transfer out, also decided to return. Finally, the Longhorns landed a proven ace at cornerback with the Mascoe transfer. Now the pieces are in place to build a nationally elite secondary.

Ingredients to an elite secondary

Just a few weeks ago I laid out the ingredients necessary to create a championship secondary. As a review, they were:

  • Part 1: An ace cornerback.

  • Part 2: Two veteran safeties.

  • Part 3: A nickel package that can keep three guys on the field at all times with the ability to turn and run with a vertical route.

At the time, finding a deep nickel package was the most promising thanks to the abundance of young coverage talent on the roster. The goal at safety seemed plausible if McDonald could be convinced to return and an addition made in the transfer portal. Finding an ace corner hinged on growth from young players or a big portal addition. All three have now been checked off. Not only do the Longhorns have two potential “Ace” cornerbacks between Mascoe and Phillips, they also have Graceson Littleton, Wardell Mack, Warren Roberson, and Kobe Black to man the “Star” nickel position and provide depth at corner.

At safety, a pair of fourth-year players are poised to hold things down. The depth at safety beside Williams at McDonald is also in strong shape with Jordon Johnson-Rubell and Xavier Filsaime entering their third years and the freakish Jonah Williams reaching year two. The Longhorns could potentially reload in 2027 and still meet the mark here. I can’t recall many Texas secondaries with more talent or potential answers. This unit is quickly starting to look like the elite 2024 unit.

Fitting the pieces together

So how are all these pieces going to come together in the new scheme? Both Mascoe and Phillips have shown the ability to hold up in press-man coverage or to support the run playing as Cover 2 cornerbacks underneath, so there’s really no great urgency to play either to field or boundary. Since Phillips is considerably longer and bigger, perhaps Texas will shade him toward bigger receivers and put Mascoe on the smaller ones.

Littleton and Mack are now set up to return to the Star position, which makes that position pretty formidable and miles away from where it was entering 2025. Either of these guys in another year at the position are liable to end up being very good. Next up, safety. The strong safety position is where Georgia has tended to put their best safeties and where they’ve often looked to deploy elite, blue chip athletes.

The last time Muschamp was in Austin he had Earl Thomas to man this spot, which is surely the best player he’s ever had in that role, but he’s had a few other good ones since. The last four years at Georgia the position looked like this:

Year

Player

Origin

Production

2025

KJ Bolden

5-star from GA

66 tackles, 2.5 TFL, 2 INT, 4 PBU

2024

Malaki Starks

5-star from GA

77 tackles, 4 TFL, 1 INT, 3 PBU

2023

Javon Bullard

3-star from GA

56 tackles, 1 TFL, 2 INT, 5 PBU

2022

Christopher Smith

4-star from GA

61 tackles, 1 TFL, 3 INT, 5 PBU

These guys usually lead the secondary in tackles and have the most on their plate in terms of everything that has to be navigated with coverage checks. There’s often more variety in how the defense covers things to the strong safety’s side than to where free safety aligns, which is usually the boundary. Skill-wise, two-deep quarters coverages ask the strong safety to help inside or over the top on throws to the wide side of the field, which requires some lateral range, and in the alley on runs which requires downhill range.

In single-high coverage, Georgia used a technique they call the “cheat safety” which has the deep safety get a run or pass read before he bails deep.

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If he gets a run read he can now break and fit the run over the top or break on an RPO pass over the middle. Because he’s behind the Star and the other inside receiver is often to the other side of the formation, playing as a cheat safety is a task that often falls to the strong safety. This position tends to finish near the top of the list for the Georgia defense in total tackles as a result of being positioned as the primary alley runner in the middle.

Before this last year, I’d have said Williams was your better candidate for strong safety and McDonald more of a free safety. Now I think either could potentially play that role as both are elite athletes. It’ll depend on which player proves rangier and more adept at picking up the new schemes. Whoever plays free safety will probably be overqualified for the role. The fact both return sets an extremely high floor for the safety room this season. With everything else lined up for Muschamp, I anticipate a return to 2024 level of play from the Longhorn secondary in 2026.

9 hours ago, SOHHvet08 said:

The 9.95ers keep hinting that they're several portal recruits who secretly visited UT over the last week & don't want that info public. Regardless if there's truth to that or not, it's insane that UT has only had 4 OL portal visits so far when UT needs both OL depth & starters. Why hasn't there been visits from top G5/FCS & 2-deep non-starting P4 OL portal recruits just to set the floor & provide depth?

Holy shit. Secret visits?! Does anyone know where Kyler Murray was last week?

6 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Bo Jackson may enter the portal, leaving Ohio State. He wants a big new deal and they're balking. Sound familiar? That dude is better than Clark, Wisner, whomever at Texas other than potentially Cooper. Everyone is going through this near the top of the sport.

"[Birm] Ohio State RB Bo Jackson's future with program is in doubt, as he is asking for more than former Buckeye/ 2nd round NFL pick TreVeyon Henderson is making this year in New England"

Not sure if they are going by his NE salary of $840k or his cap number which is $2 million. Didn't watch the video.

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13 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Bo Jackson may enter the portal, leaving Ohio State. He wants a big new deal and they're balking. Sound familiar? That dude is better than Clark, Wisner, whomever at Texas other than potentially Cooper. Everyone is going through this near the top of the sport.

No way, only Texas loses high level players over money. This thread told me so! No other programs have these problems!

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33 minutes ago, TejasPedro said:

it’s not like we can just sprinkle Portal Pirate cum on the situation and make it all better.

Sark really might not be the guy! Flood may have just killed us all

FIFY

4 minutes ago, The Dog said:

"[Birm] Ohio State RB Bo Jackson's future with program is in doubt, as he is asking for more than former Buckeye/ 2nd round NFL pick TreVeyon Henderson is making this year in New England"

Not sure what that means?

Base salary 840k

Then again look at Cam Coleman. He's good college WR. What's he getting offered? 3M? 5M?

Jaxon Smith Njigba leading NFL WR 24 years old. Made $2,715,996 this year.

This shit is definitely out of hand.

What I’ve learned is Texas is the wealthiest school but on a lowball budget to get guys in. Not sure what quality is left in the portal for the OL where we can get a couple of starters and some depth.

Selling your shit to private equity is looking more understandable if you do not have an extremely well-funded and savvy collective, or an extremely thirsty billionaire alumnus. Success in this sport is coalescing around bottomless private pockets. Having a buffoon for a coach or your college situated in a desert wasteland no longer hurts.

39 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

This season, almost 40% of the entire FBS rosters have entered the portal. Nothing close to that has been the case in the past. We're seeing many more entrants than WRs, QBs, a few mercenaries and a bunch of spares. If a program is not using the talent available in the portal to enrich their program, the odds are that their roster is being used to enrich others.

When you consider seniors without eligibility and draft entrants, it's basically 50%.

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On 12/30/2025 at 10:00 PM, closetojumping said:

Fraley is as close to a sure thing for the IOL in the portal as you are going to find.

4 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

What I’ve learned is Texas is the wealthiest school but on a lowball budget to get guys in. Not sure what quality is left in the portal for the OL where we can get a couple of starters and some depth.

The market took a huge jump this year that our brilliant GM Harris and the donors were not expecting. That much is clear.

5 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

What I’ve learned is Texas is the wealthiest school but on a lowball budget to get guys in. Not sure what quality is left in the portal for the OL where we can get a couple of starters and some depth.

We offered an OL $1.6 million - double the base salary of a 2nd round draft pick. We're anything but lowballing players.

1 minute ago, The Dog said:

We offered an OL $1.6 million - double the base salary of a 2nd round draft pick. We're anything but lowballing players.

We aren’t offering with your average surly member would, because it’s not their money and we should offer everyone $3m each and get the best 105 players in the world!!!!

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I don’t blame Harris much for stuff. He’s GM in name only. Sark has Jerry Jones syndrome. He wants his championship and he wants it to be clear his brilliance is what won it. Sark was happy to let Glasscock walk, who is now the highest paid GM in cfb at LSU. Also why Sark would never give up playing calling duties.

So in terms of player upgrades through the portal, safe to say we are getting....

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16 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

What I’ve learned is Texas is the wealthiest school but on a lowball budget to get guys in. Not sure what quality is left in the portal for the OL where we can get a couple of starters and some depth.

Texas has always been tight with mounds of money. Its really mindblowing.

6 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

I don’t blame Harris much for stuff. He’s GM in name only. Sark has Jerry Jones syndrome. He wants his championship and he wants it to be clear his brilliance is what won it. Sark was happy to let Glasscock walk, who is now the highest paid GM in cfb at LSU. Also why Sark would never give up playing calling duties.

Will be the downfall of Sark against great teams. Deer in the headlight look again. The fact he doesnt have an OC shows how retarded he can be.

8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

We aren’t offering with your average surly member would, because it’s not their money and we should offer everyone $3m each and get the best 105 players in the world!!!!

7 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

Listening to the OTF livestream and Bobby mentioned that we had a higher offer than Ohio State for this guy. Matt Patricia signing a 3 year deal was likely the difference.

Bobby then mentioned something I was thinking yesterday - at some point the numbers are large enough that the differences don't matter as much. For example, there's not much of a difference between $1 million and $1.5 million in terms of lifestyle. It's not like the difference from 60k to 90k, which does. This is especially the case if you are a college kid living on campus.

Of course if someone comes in with an offer several times another then that can make a difference (like $1 million vs. $5 million.) But that just doesn't happen very often.

7 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

I'd rather they be from La Canada than The Frozen North.

IYKYK

*La Cañada, which is Spanish for "The Canada"

Family lived there while my father was in residency

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7 minutes ago, BlackCat said:

I don’t blame Harris much for stuff. He’s GM in name only. Sark has Jerry Jones syndrome. He wants his championship and he wants it to be clear his brilliance is what won it. Sark was happy to let Glasscock walk, who is now the highest paid GM in cfb at LSU. Also why Sark would never give up playing calling duties.

You can blame Harris directly for having several meetings in which he is the only staff representation and he walked out thinking the player was good to go, and the player walked out thinking they’d been given an exit interview and then submitted paperwork for the portal. A recent example is Bo Barnes. Plenty of others.

I have met with and spoken to Harris directly. He is an unimpressive buffoon who thinks he’s really smart. He’s not well-liked among players or staff and he’s at Texas because he’s zero threat to Sarkisian’s agenda except when accidentally and actively fucking it up.

When people on this board, usually after signing periods and portal periods when the dust settles and Texas has done well, rush to give Harris praise and passive aggressively make comments about doubters and haters questioning him or Sarkisian, all they’re doing is telling the rest of us that they are know-nothing dunces.

And yes, Sarkisian was happy to see Glasscock go and he’s become one of the best in the entire country. Kiffin, asshole and sociopath that he is, doesn’t give one shit about being questioned by his staff. The right answer wins for him, that’s it. I expect him to do well at LSU accordingly.

This is about the point in the process where now that we've missed on the actual good prospects, we overpay for stale bread flawed project players who are barely replacement level, if that. Expect to see a flood of announcements soon for some 2nd string giants on OL with concrete blocks for feet.

Looks like the plan to for another year of Arch doing hero ball, running for his life.

2 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

Too small

Just like the number of OL on our roster in 2026.

Weeee'reee baaack!!!

At this point, just find the best LB, IOL, RB that wants to be a Longhorn and overpay them. It’s that level of desperation right now

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(Justin Wells) Texas Transfer Portal Tidbits: Targets in Austin, prospects headed to campus, weekend visits coming

Inside Texas with the latest on the NCAA transfer portal ahead of day seven on the heels of Texas hosting a pair of prospects overnight with more to come to Austin this weekend.

RALEEK BROWN & ZION WILLIAMS

Both portal targets arrived in Austin late Wednesday afternoon and stayed overnight. Raleek Brown and Texas make a lot of sense, and we believe the former clears throat Mater Dei five-star, Oklahoma commit, USC first-year standout, and first-team All-Big 12 Arizona State running back is leaning heavily toward Texas. Our Joe Cook put an On3 RPM in for Brown to commit to Texas.

Lufkin (Texas) native Zion Williams is another who was on campus and stayed the night. He fits Will Muschamp’s NT spot and has SEC program experience. He also has the makings of a developmental player who can help backfill a need at nose tackle from the class of 2025. He entered the portal with a no-contact tag for a reason. This one might not take long.

LATEST ON NEW VISITORS

Joe Brunner, OL, Wisconsin (Thursday, Jan. 8th)

  • Brunner plans to see Indiana once the Hoosiers get back home from the Peach Bowl.

Cade Uluave, LB, Cal (Thursday, Jan. 8th)

  • The Cal standout is a tackling machine. With Texas working on Bo Barnes and Christian Alliegro, he’s an important target

Wendell Gregory, EDGE, Oklahoma State – (Thursday, Jan. 8th)

  • The Georgia native who started his career at South Carolina had a strong season for a weak Cowboys team. With Jayden Woods staying at Florida, Texas jumped in the mix and will host him today per Pete Nakos. The Horns are battling Missouri and Wisconsin.

Tre Richardson, WR/KR, Vanderbilt (weekend)

  • We will see if this one happens.

Jacarrius Peak, OL, NC State – TBD

  • One report mentioned Texas with Peak, but the Longhorns would have to ensure he’s a cultural fit. Just visited A&M. We will see if this one happens. He’s the No. 1 OT in the portal.

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