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    2023 Texas Transfer List (Updated 4/17 3:05pm)

    On3 Transfer Portal Wire: https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/wire/football/2023/ 
    Visit our friends at On3 for more in depth and complete portal coverage. This is the quick hits for Texas-related transfers only.

    Out:
    Offense
    QB Hudson Card, OL Andrej Karic, WR Trey Omeire, OL Logan Parr, OL Junior Angilau, WR Agiye Hall, WR Brenen Thompson
    Defense
    CB Jamier Johnson, DE Prince Dorbah, DE DJ Harris, S JD Coffey, LB Devin Richardson, Isaac Pearson, DE Ovie Oghoufo, DB Ishmael Ibraheem, LB Trevell Johnson, DE Derrick Brown

    In: 
    Offense
    WR AD Mitchell
    Defense
    P Ryan Sanborn, CB Gavin Holmes, S Jalen Catalon, DT Trill Carter

    Targets (Estimated Needs): 

    *Confirmed mutual interest

    TE (0-1)

    WR (1-2)  *AD Mitchell (Georgia)

    DE (0-1) 

    DL (0-1) *DT Trill Carter (Minnesota; visited 4/11)

    CB (1)  *Gavin Holmes (Wake Forest; visited 12/17)

    S (1) *Ja'Had Carter (Syracuse; visited 12/17), *Jalen Catalon (Arkansas; visited 1/8)


    K/P (1) *Ryan Sanborn (Stanford; visited 12/10)

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    5 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Whoever loses between Dart and Sanders will transfer after spring.

    There's no way Lane officially announces a winner in this scenario. One of them would have to decide that he probably won't win the job through fall camp 

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    19 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Whoever loses between Dart and Sanders will transfer after spring.

    Sanders going full zone read offense to Quinshon Judkins would be nasty. 

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    47 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I'm fine with 1 and 3, but a no-go on 2. Not sure why that matters one way or another, and I have no perspective on his impact on the program and therefore can't value it.

    like a boss lets do this GIF by Red Bull

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    1 minute ago, TexEx15 said:

     

    Full article because it is interesting:  

    Spoiler

    The first-ever transfer window in college football has closed. After a wild 45 days of nonstop movement, where did we end up?

    The NCAA transfer portal opened on Dec. 5 for all FBS players interested in switching schools. Since then, more than 1,200 scholarship players have opted to enter the portal and explore their options. The first deadline for underclassmen to transfer arrived on Wednesday.

    These departing players did not need to commit to their next school by Jan. 18, but they did need to give notice that they intend to transfer. Schools have up to 48 hours to add a player into the NCAA’s transfer database, so expect more names to pop up this week and potentially several new additions to The Athletic’s best available ranks.

    Graduate transfers can continue to enter the portal at any time, but everyone else now must wait until May 1 to make their move. There’s going to be another dramatic two-week round of transactions at the end of the spring, with more surprise defections and additions that will help define who college football’s contenders are in 2023.

    For now, though, there’s plenty of data to dig into from this first six-week period as well as the first six months of this 2022-23 transfer cycle. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

    go-deeper
    GO DEEPER

    Tracking where college football's best available transfers have signed

    The impact of the window
    When the NCAA officially adopted the new notification-of-transfer windows at the end of August, the expectation among college recruiting staffers was that December would be overwhelming. Sure enough, having to deal with coaching changes, transfer recruiting, the early signing period and bowl games all at the same time was exhausting.

    Where do things stand in the transfer market as we reach the end of this first window? More than 1,500 FBS scholarship players have entered the transfer portal during the 2022-23 cycle, which started on Aug. 1. When you take out the players who withdrew from the portal or opted to go pro, the current total is 1,496.

    The number of players who have picked their next school will soon surpass 1,000. As of Wednesday night, 64 percent of all FBS scholarship players in the portal have made commitments, including 72 percent of the Power 5 transfers.

    We’ve seen a grand total of 1,285 FBS scholarship players enter the transfer portal during the 45-day window. One detail about that group that stands out: Just over 25 percent of them were graduate transfers. That’s an awful lot of underclassmen and players who don’t have their degree looking to switch schools.

    How do these numbers compare to the 2021-22 transfer cycle? On Jan. 18, 2022, we had just surpassed 1,200 FBS scholarship transfers. You could say we’re seeing a 24 percent increase in transfers compared to this time last year, and that might end up being the case. But right now, it’s tough to predict whether that increase is going to hold the rest of the way.

    What comes next
    The next transfer window opens on May 1 and closes on May 15. Underclassmen who want to use their one-time transfer and be immediately eligible to play in 2023 need to enter during that period. The NCAA is taking a stricter approach with waivers going forward, so it’s important to decide by that deadline.

    In theory, the upside of going to the window schedule is that we should see a slowdown in transfer activity over the next few months. FBS coaching staffs seeking midyear transfers will have those efforts wrapped up by the end of the month. Players currently in the portal who are planning to be summer enrollees have time to explore their options and take more visits. Grad transfers will continue to hit the market, but these next three months shouldn’t be as frenzied as the last two.

    The 532 scholarship players who haven’t found a home yet probably need to be realistic and start looking into Group of 5, FCS, D-II or junior college programs — or maybe even withdrawing from the portal, if their former team will take them back. That’s not to say all of them are destined to drop down a level, but unsigned players who have limited game tape, injuries or grade issues might have to wait a while for the opportunities they’re desiring. Group of 5 players have an even tougher time getting noticed and offered among the flood of daily portal entries. More than 300 are still available right now.

    Keep in mind that some very good players entered the portal last May, including receivers Jordan Addison (USC) and Charlie Jones (Purdue), cornerback Josh Newton (TCU) and offensive lineman D’Mitri Emmanuel (Florida State). Coaching staffs are going to save room for May pickups and the likelihood that they’ll have some post-spring roster needs.

    The players entering the portal in May won’t just be backups who didn’t get enough spring practice reps, though many of them will be encouraged to move on. The new roster management rules are, as expected, clearly incentivizing coaches to run off underperforming reserves and free up scholarships for better transfers. We’ll see much more post-spring roster churn.

    But it’s also reasonable to assume the May 15 deadline will spur plenty of action given the current landscape of tampering and NIL inducement. If you’re trying to win big (or not get fired) in 2023, you’re not going into the summer with glaring weaknesses in your starting lineup. You’re finding a way to upgrade your deficiencies. There will be, in the parlance of our times, strong-ass offers.

    Where they’re going
    So far, 812 scholarship players at Power 5 programs have entered and stayed in the transfer portal. Close to 600 of them have committed or enrolled at their new school. Here’s the scorecard on where they’re heading.

    153a77f402a83df505db248c6c2fec94.png
    Now that these coaching staffs are no longer restricted in how many transfers they can sign, it does seem these transfers are getting more opportunities to keep playing at this level. In 2021-22, 340 of 1,054 Power 5 scholarship transfers signed with another P5 school. In this cycle, 314 of 812 have committed to Power 5 programs.

    Power 5 teams have lost an average of 12.5 players to the portal so far during this 2022-23 transfer cycle. For the entire 12-month period of the last transfer cycle, the average was 16. There can’t be many coaching staffs across the country who honestly believe they’ll only lose three or four more players over the course of the next six months.

    Now here’s where things stand among the 684 scholarship players at Group of 5 schools who are currently in the portal.

    2f8e5949d5182d23dbb03a7867093221.png
    So far, 140 players are leaving G5 programs to play for Power 5 schools in 2023. Why is that significant? In less than six months, we’ve already exceeded last year’s total of 124. Many of these transfers are all-conference-caliber players determined to prove they can play at the highest level. It’ll be interesting to see how many more of them test their luck in the May transfer window. The conference hit hardest by those defections has been the AAC with 35, though the coaching changes at Cincinnati, Tulsa and South Florida did impact that total. The MAC has lost the second-most players to Power 5 schools so far, with 26 departures.

    Among the 964 total FBS scholarship transfers who have made commitments, 42 percent are moving down. Over the 2021-22 transfer cycle, it was 60 percent. Hopefully, more roster flexibility and more available scholarships prove beneficial for this year’s transfers. But it makes sense that it’s not over 50 percent at this point in the year. The most coveted players are mostly off the market now as we head into the spring semester.

    Who’s landing the most transfers?
    Gone are the days of just trying to land a couple of veteran transfers who can help right away. Sure, the programs that sign top-10 classes year after year — like Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson, Texas and Texas A&M — can still take that approach. Those six have been selective about taking transfers in this 2022-23 cycle. But for pretty much everyone else? If you’re not hustling on portal recruiting, you’re falling behind.

    Which programs have loaded up on FBS scholarship transfers this offseason? Here’s the top of the leaderboard as of Wednesday night.

    9a49e673f32bd85306d6f39c643dd4e0.png
    New Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham worked at Florida State and Oregon before landing his first head job. He has witnessed how impactful portal recruiting can be for building up a winning program. It’s no shock, then, that this staff has been incredibly aggressive in its efforts to flip the Sun Devils’ roster going into Year 1. When you include the FCS players they’ve also brought in, they’re up to 24 transfers. And they’re not done yet.

    Drew Pyne
    QB
    Notre Dame
    Jacob Conover
    QB
    BYU
    DeCarlos Brooks
    RB
    Cal
    Cameron Skattebo
    RB
    Sacramento State
    Xavier Guillory
    WR
    Idaho State
    Troy Omeire
    WR
    Texas
    Jake Smith
    WR
    USC
    Melquan Stovall
    WR
    Colorado State
    Ben Coleman
    OL
    Cal
    Leif Fautanu
    OL
    UNLV
    Aaron Frost
    OL
    Nevada
    Bram Walden
    OL
    Oregon
    Sam Benjamin
    DL
    Idaho State
    Prince Dorbah
    DL
    Texas
    Dashaun Mallory
    DL
    Michigan State
    Tristan Monday
    DL
    Wisconsin
    Travion Brown
    LB
    Washington State
    Krew Jackson
    LB
    Kansas State
    Tate Romney
    LB
    BYU
    Xavion Alford
    DB
    USC
    Shamari Simmons
    DB
    Austin Peay
    Dario Longhetto
    K
    Cal
    Josh Carlson
    P
    New Mexico State
    Slater Zellers
    LS
    Cal
    Charlotte coach Biff Poggi has been just as prolific to start off his tenure. The former Michigan assistant and Maryland high school coaching legend has leaned on his connections throughout the country to quickly pick up 20 FBS transfers, 15 of them from Power 5 rosters. Don’t be surprised if the 49ers’ next big get is Michigan pass rusher Eyabi Okie, who played for Poggi at St. Frances Academy.

    Luke Fickell is off to an impressive start at Wisconsin and has reloaded on offense around star back Braelon Allen with three new quarterbacks, four wide receivers and two offensive linemen coming in from the portal. Now more than ever, it feels critical for newly hired coaching staffs to get transfer recruiting right and to do so right away. The new regimes at Auburn, Louisville, Colorado, Nebraska and Cincinnati all deserve credit for the quality and quantity of their early transfer pickups.

    At Oklahoma, Brent Venables is trying to get his program flipped as quickly as possible after a tough 6-7 debut season. The Sooners have won some big-time recruiting battles in the process of adding 12 FBS transfers, headlined by the four newcomers they’ve brought in on the defensive line.

    Another staff heading into Year 2 that has impressed is SMU. Rhett Lashlee and his coaching staff have picked up 16 FBS transfers, making the most of their connections with five Miami transfers, three Liberty transfers and several more former blue-chip recruits.

    Who’s losing the most transfers?
    Now let’s check in on the other side of this cycle. Which programs have lost the most players to the portal? Here are the FBS leaders in scholarship portal entries since Sept. 1.

    27f621e0f106f122fe87edebdf8ff425.png
    Texas A&M has lost 25 scholarship players in one offseason. Eighteen were blue-chip recruits. Eight were top-100 recruits, including five-stars Denver Harris and Chris Marshall. Seven were freshmen from their top-ranked 2022 recruiting class. Not one entered the portal, changed their mind and withdrew.

    To their credit, the Aggies have picked up two touted transfers, North Carolina cornerback Tony Grimes and Florida State safety Sam McCall, and are pursuing several more. But if you want to compare this to turnover margin and put it in those terms, no other FBS program comes close to Texas A&M’s minus-23 transfer margin.

    At least 16 of their departing players are going to be on Power 5 rosters in 2023. Here’s a recap of where their 22 transfers who have made decisions ended up.

    Haynes King
    QB
    Georgia Tech
    Eli Stowers
    QB
    New Mexico State
    LJ Johnson Jr.
    RB
    SMU
    Yulkeith Brown
    WR
    Tulane
    Chase Lane
    WR
    Georgia Tech
    Chris Marshall
    WR
    Ole Miss
    Blake Smith
    TE
    Oklahoma
    PJ Williams
    OL
    SMU
    Tunmise Adeleye
    DL
    Michigan State
    Marcus Burris
    DL
    Indiana
    Elijah Jeudy
    DL
    Nebraska
    Adarious Jones
    DL
    Memphis
    Anthony Lucas
    DL
    USC
    Ish Harris
    LB
    Houston
    Tarian Lee Jr.
    LB
    Georgia Southern
    Andre White Jr.
    LB
    Georgia Tech
    Smoke Bouie
    DB
    Georgia
    Brian George
    DB
    UCF
    Marquis Groves-Killebrew
    DB
    Louisville
    Denver Harris
    DB
    LSU
    Myles Jones
    DB
    Duke
    Caden Davis
    K
    Ole Miss
    Arkansas has made a run at the No. 1 spot on that leaderboard this offseason with 23 players electing to transfer, and Ole Miss just moved up after four scholarship players entered the portal on Wednesday. Florida has had 22 players move on so far, which is the kind of roster turnover you tend to see as a coaching staff moves into Year 2. Or maybe this is just going to become the norm in the SEC. There have already been 222 SEC scholarship players in the portal. Last year’s total was 241.

    One curiosity about Arizona (22) and Cal (21) ranking high on this list: They’ve lost some really talented players to other Pac-12 schools. Three Arizona players — receiver Dorian Singer, cornerback Christian Roland-Wallace and defensive lineman Kyon Barrs — moved on to USC. Cal lost receiver J.Michael Sturdivant and linebacker Femi Oladejo to UCLA and four players to Arizona State. No Power 5 league has had more intraconference scholarship transfers this offseason than the 31 so far in the Pac-12.

    But the revised rules for transfer recruiting at least offer a silver lining to all of this: The more you lose, the more you can gain. It’s safe to say everyone is going to do a lot more of both when this cycle heats up again in May.

     

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    2 hours ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    You'll notice I didn't take that bet. I've got NU, CSU, sparky, stanford, and WSU as reasonable possibilities. UA is the wild card 6th, imo. There's no path to 7, though. 

    They were the worst P5 team in the country this past year. If Deion gets them bowl eligible in year one then his stay won’t be long at Colorado, he’d  be moving on up pretty quickly.

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    1 hour ago, Teryor said:

    Full article because it is interesting:  

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    The first-ever transfer window in college football has closed. After a wild 45 days of nonstop movement, where did we end up?

    The NCAA transfer portal opened on Dec. 5 for all FBS players interested in switching schools. Since then, more than 1,200 scholarship players have opted to enter the portal and explore their options. The first deadline for underclassmen to transfer arrived on Wednesday.

    These departing players did not need to commit to their next school by Jan. 18, but they did need to give notice that they intend to transfer. Schools have up to 48 hours to add a player into the NCAA’s transfer database, so expect more names to pop up this week and potentially several new additions to The Athletic’s best available ranks.

    Graduate transfers can continue to enter the portal at any time, but everyone else now must wait until May 1 to make their move. There’s going to be another dramatic two-week round of transactions at the end of the spring, with more surprise defections and additions that will help define who college football’s contenders are in 2023.

    For now, though, there’s plenty of data to dig into from this first six-week period as well as the first six months of this 2022-23 transfer cycle. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

    go-deeper
    GO DEEPER

    Tracking where college football's best available transfers have signed

    The impact of the window
    When the NCAA officially adopted the new notification-of-transfer windows at the end of August, the expectation among college recruiting staffers was that December would be overwhelming. Sure enough, having to deal with coaching changes, transfer recruiting, the early signing period and bowl games all at the same time was exhausting.

    Where do things stand in the transfer market as we reach the end of this first window? More than 1,500 FBS scholarship players have entered the transfer portal during the 2022-23 cycle, which started on Aug. 1. When you take out the players who withdrew from the portal or opted to go pro, the current total is 1,496.

    The number of players who have picked their next school will soon surpass 1,000. As of Wednesday night, 64 percent of all FBS scholarship players in the portal have made commitments, including 72 percent of the Power 5 transfers.

    We’ve seen a grand total of 1,285 FBS scholarship players enter the transfer portal during the 45-day window. One detail about that group that stands out: Just over 25 percent of them were graduate transfers. That’s an awful lot of underclassmen and players who don’t have their degree looking to switch schools.

    How do these numbers compare to the 2021-22 transfer cycle? On Jan. 18, 2022, we had just surpassed 1,200 FBS scholarship transfers. You could say we’re seeing a 24 percent increase in transfers compared to this time last year, and that might end up being the case. But right now, it’s tough to predict whether that increase is going to hold the rest of the way.

    What comes next
    The next transfer window opens on May 1 and closes on May 15. Underclassmen who want to use their one-time transfer and be immediately eligible to play in 2023 need to enter during that period. The NCAA is taking a stricter approach with waivers going forward, so it’s important to decide by that deadline.

    In theory, the upside of going to the window schedule is that we should see a slowdown in transfer activity over the next few months. FBS coaching staffs seeking midyear transfers will have those efforts wrapped up by the end of the month. Players currently in the portal who are planning to be summer enrollees have time to explore their options and take more visits. Grad transfers will continue to hit the market, but these next three months shouldn’t be as frenzied as the last two.

    The 532 scholarship players who haven’t found a home yet probably need to be realistic and start looking into Group of 5, FCS, D-II or junior college programs — or maybe even withdrawing from the portal, if their former team will take them back. That’s not to say all of them are destined to drop down a level, but unsigned players who have limited game tape, injuries or grade issues might have to wait a while for the opportunities they’re desiring. Group of 5 players have an even tougher time getting noticed and offered among the flood of daily portal entries. More than 300 are still available right now.

    Keep in mind that some very good players entered the portal last May, including receivers Jordan Addison (USC) and Charlie Jones (Purdue), cornerback Josh Newton (TCU) and offensive lineman D’Mitri Emmanuel (Florida State). Coaching staffs are going to save room for May pickups and the likelihood that they’ll have some post-spring roster needs.

    The players entering the portal in May won’t just be backups who didn’t get enough spring practice reps, though many of them will be encouraged to move on. The new roster management rules are, as expected, clearly incentivizing coaches to run off underperforming reserves and free up scholarships for better transfers. We’ll see much more post-spring roster churn.

    But it’s also reasonable to assume the May 15 deadline will spur plenty of action given the current landscape of tampering and NIL inducement. If you’re trying to win big (or not get fired) in 2023, you’re not going into the summer with glaring weaknesses in your starting lineup. You’re finding a way to upgrade your deficiencies. There will be, in the parlance of our times, strong-ass offers.

    Where they’re going
    So far, 812 scholarship players at Power 5 programs have entered and stayed in the transfer portal. Close to 600 of them have committed or enrolled at their new school. Here’s the scorecard on where they’re heading.

    153a77f402a83df505db248c6c2fec94.png
    Now that these coaching staffs are no longer restricted in how many transfers they can sign, it does seem these transfers are getting more opportunities to keep playing at this level. In 2021-22, 340 of 1,054 Power 5 scholarship transfers signed with another P5 school. In this cycle, 314 of 812 have committed to Power 5 programs.

    Power 5 teams have lost an average of 12.5 players to the portal so far during this 2022-23 transfer cycle. For the entire 12-month period of the last transfer cycle, the average was 16. There can’t be many coaching staffs across the country who honestly believe they’ll only lose three or four more players over the course of the next six months.

    Now here’s where things stand among the 684 scholarship players at Group of 5 schools who are currently in the portal.

    2f8e5949d5182d23dbb03a7867093221.png
    So far, 140 players are leaving G5 programs to play for Power 5 schools in 2023. Why is that significant? In less than six months, we’ve already exceeded last year’s total of 124. Many of these transfers are all-conference-caliber players determined to prove they can play at the highest level. It’ll be interesting to see how many more of them test their luck in the May transfer window. The conference hit hardest by those defections has been the AAC with 35, though the coaching changes at Cincinnati, Tulsa and South Florida did impact that total. The MAC has lost the second-most players to Power 5 schools so far, with 26 departures.

    Among the 964 total FBS scholarship transfers who have made commitments, 42 percent are moving down. Over the 2021-22 transfer cycle, it was 60 percent. Hopefully, more roster flexibility and more available scholarships prove beneficial for this year’s transfers. But it makes sense that it’s not over 50 percent at this point in the year. The most coveted players are mostly off the market now as we head into the spring semester.

    Who’s landing the most transfers?
    Gone are the days of just trying to land a couple of veteran transfers who can help right away. Sure, the programs that sign top-10 classes year after year — like Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Clemson, Texas and Texas A&M — can still take that approach. Those six have been selective about taking transfers in this 2022-23 cycle. But for pretty much everyone else? If you’re not hustling on portal recruiting, you’re falling behind.

    Which programs have loaded up on FBS scholarship transfers this offseason? Here’s the top of the leaderboard as of Wednesday night.

    9a49e673f32bd85306d6f39c643dd4e0.png
    New Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham worked at Florida State and Oregon before landing his first head job. He has witnessed how impactful portal recruiting can be for building up a winning program. It’s no shock, then, that this staff has been incredibly aggressive in its efforts to flip the Sun Devils’ roster going into Year 1. When you include the FCS players they’ve also brought in, they’re up to 24 transfers. And they’re not done yet.

    Drew Pyne
    QB
    Notre Dame
    Jacob Conover
    QB
    BYU
    DeCarlos Brooks
    RB
    Cal
    Cameron Skattebo
    RB
    Sacramento State
    Xavier Guillory
    WR
    Idaho State
    Troy Omeire
    WR
    Texas
    Jake Smith
    WR
    USC
    Melquan Stovall
    WR
    Colorado State
    Ben Coleman
    OL
    Cal
    Leif Fautanu
    OL
    UNLV
    Aaron Frost
    OL
    Nevada
    Bram Walden
    OL
    Oregon
    Sam Benjamin
    DL
    Idaho State
    Prince Dorbah
    DL
    Texas
    Dashaun Mallory
    DL
    Michigan State
    Tristan Monday
    DL
    Wisconsin
    Travion Brown
    LB
    Washington State
    Krew Jackson
    LB
    Kansas State
    Tate Romney
    LB
    BYU
    Xavion Alford
    DB
    USC
    Shamari Simmons
    DB
    Austin Peay
    Dario Longhetto
    K
    Cal
    Josh Carlson
    P
    New Mexico State
    Slater Zellers
    LS
    Cal
    Charlotte coach Biff Poggi has been just as prolific to start off his tenure. The former Michigan assistant and Maryland high school coaching legend has leaned on his connections throughout the country to quickly pick up 20 FBS transfers, 15 of them from Power 5 rosters. Don’t be surprised if the 49ers’ next big get is Michigan pass rusher Eyabi Okie, who played for Poggi at St. Frances Academy.

    Luke Fickell is off to an impressive start at Wisconsin and has reloaded on offense around star back Braelon Allen with three new quarterbacks, four wide receivers and two offensive linemen coming in from the portal. Now more than ever, it feels critical for newly hired coaching staffs to get transfer recruiting right and to do so right away. The new regimes at Auburn, Louisville, Colorado, Nebraska and Cincinnati all deserve credit for the quality and quantity of their early transfer pickups.

    At Oklahoma, Brent Venables is trying to get his program flipped as quickly as possible after a tough 6-7 debut season. The Sooners have won some big-time recruiting battles in the process of adding 12 FBS transfers, headlined by the four newcomers they’ve brought in on the defensive line.

    Another staff heading into Year 2 that has impressed is SMU. Rhett Lashlee and his coaching staff have picked up 16 FBS transfers, making the most of their connections with five Miami transfers, three Liberty transfers and several more former blue-chip recruits.

    Who’s losing the most transfers?
    Now let’s check in on the other side of this cycle. Which programs have lost the most players to the portal? Here are the FBS leaders in scholarship portal entries since Sept. 1.

    27f621e0f106f122fe87edebdf8ff425.png
    Texas A&M has lost 25 scholarship players in one offseason. Eighteen were blue-chip recruits. Eight were top-100 recruits, including five-stars Denver Harris and Chris Marshall. Seven were freshmen from their top-ranked 2022 recruiting class. Not one entered the portal, changed their mind and withdrew.

    To their credit, the Aggies have picked up two touted transfers, North Carolina cornerback Tony Grimes and Florida State safety Sam McCall, and are pursuing several more. But if you want to compare this to turnover margin and put it in those terms, no other FBS program comes close to Texas A&M’s minus-23 transfer margin.

    At least 16 of their departing players are going to be on Power 5 rosters in 2023. Here’s a recap of where their 22 transfers who have made decisions ended up.

    Haynes King
    QB
    Georgia Tech
    Eli Stowers
    QB
    New Mexico State
    LJ Johnson Jr.
    RB
    SMU
    Yulkeith Brown
    WR
    Tulane
    Chase Lane
    WR
    Georgia Tech
    Chris Marshall
    WR
    Ole Miss
    Blake Smith
    TE
    Oklahoma
    PJ Williams
    OL
    SMU
    Tunmise Adeleye
    DL
    Michigan State
    Marcus Burris
    DL
    Indiana
    Elijah Jeudy
    DL
    Nebraska
    Adarious Jones
    DL
    Memphis
    Anthony Lucas
    DL
    USC
    Ish Harris
    LB
    Houston
    Tarian Lee Jr.
    LB
    Georgia Southern
    Andre White Jr.
    LB
    Georgia Tech
    Smoke Bouie
    DB
    Georgia
    Brian George
    DB
    UCF
    Marquis Groves-Killebrew
    DB
    Louisville
    Denver Harris
    DB
    LSU
    Myles Jones
    DB
    Duke
    Caden Davis
    K
    Ole Miss
    Arkansas has made a run at the No. 1 spot on that leaderboard this offseason with 23 players electing to transfer, and Ole Miss just moved up after four scholarship players entered the portal on Wednesday. Florida has had 22 players move on so far, which is the kind of roster turnover you tend to see as a coaching staff moves into Year 2. Or maybe this is just going to become the norm in the SEC. There have already been 222 SEC scholarship players in the portal. Last year’s total was 241.

    One curiosity about Arizona (22) and Cal (21) ranking high on this list: They’ve lost some really talented players to other Pac-12 schools. Three Arizona players — receiver Dorian Singer, cornerback Christian Roland-Wallace and defensive lineman Kyon Barrs — moved on to USC. Cal lost receiver J.Michael Sturdivant and linebacker Femi Oladejo to UCLA and four players to Arizona State. No Power 5 league has had more intraconference scholarship transfers this offseason than the 31 so far in the Pac-12.

    But the revised rules for transfer recruiting at least offer a silver lining to all of this: The more you lose, the more you can gain. It’s safe to say everyone is going to do a lot more of both when this cycle heats up again in May.

     

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    One of my friends was a really good baseball player at UT and they enticed him back for his senior year with the offer of half a scholarship.  He ended up increasing his draft spot by several rounds, so it worked out.

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    26 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

    IT’s Nahlin on Mitchell:

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    In other, much more impactful news, Texas is expected to host recent portal entrant AD Mitchell either later today or tomorrow. The now former Georgia wide receiver is also considering Ole Miss. In addition, it’s been reported elsewhere USC is trying to gain traction.

    Things will need to move quickly for Mitchell. Most schools have already started their spring semester, including Texas.

    Edited to add another poster says it’s his understanding Mitchell is already on campus.

     

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    In other, much more impactful news, Texas is expected to host recent portal entrant AD Mitchell either later today or tomorrow. The now former Georgia wide receiver is also considering Ole Miss. In addition, it’s been reported elsewhere USC is trying to gain traction.

    Things will need to move quickly for Mitchell. Most schools have already started their spring semester, including Texas.

    Edited to add another poster says it’s his understanding Mitchell is already on campus.

     

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    32 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

    IT’s Nahlin on Mitchell:

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    In other, much more impactful news, Texas is expected to host recent portal entrant AD Mitchell either later today or tomorrow. The now former Georgia wide receiver is also considering Ole Miss. In addition, it’s been reported elsewhere USC is trying to gain traction.

    Things will need to move quickly for Mitchell. Most schools have already started their spring semester, including Texas.

    Edited to add another poster says it’s his understanding Mitchell is already on campus.

     

    Not sure that it matters, buy you couldn't have come up with a better day weather wise than today.

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    49 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    IT is hilarious that a poster on that site broke the scoop for Nahlin.

    Yeah... I don't know where he came from, but @carsonsmith84 consistently seems to get info before the IT mods do haha. Pretty sure he told everyone the exact day Catalon would commit about a week before IT realized that the staff had serious interest...

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    Colorado Buffaloes 2023 schedule

    • Sept. 2: At TCU
    • Sept. 9: Nebraska
    • Sept. 16: CSU
    • Sept. 23: At Oregon*
    • Sept. 30: USC*
    • Oct. 7: At Arizona State
    • Oct. 13: Stanford*
    • Oct. 21: Bye week
    • Oct. 28: At UCLA*
    • Nov. 4: Oregon State*
    • Nov. 11: Arizona*
    • Nov. 17: At Washington State*
    • Nov. 25: At Utah*

    Show me a loss.

    Buffs will win more than last year, possibly knocking off one or more of the biggies on the schedule...but people thinking coach Prime will win the Pac his first try are high on their own supply
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    1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

    It says a lot about the $9.95 industry that subscriptions have cost the same amount since 1997 or whenever they first popped up.  Happy Meals will eventually cost more.   It doesn't matter how much time passes or how bad inflation gets.  Everyone knows they're full of bullshit, so I guess the recruiting sites just figure ANY price increase whatsoever is going to be met with a bunch of subscribers cancelling. "I've just been waiting for you motherfuckers to give me a reason!  There is a hard cap on what I'm willing to pay for bullshit, and that's $10.00 a month.  You dun goofed!"

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    On 1/18/2023 at 7:44 PM, TheMailBox357 said:

    Anybody else surprised that Saban has only taken in 1 portal transfer this cycle? Some TE from Maryland.

    Looks like Saban has taken his 2nd portal transfer this cycle:

     

     

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    2 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    It says a lot about the $9.95 industry that subscriptions have cost the same amount since 1997 or whenever they first popped up.  Happy Meals will eventually cost more.   It doesn't matter how much time passes or how bad inflation gets.  Everyone knows they're full of bullshit, so I guess the recruiting sites just figure ANY price increase whatsoever is going to be met with a bunch of subscribers cancelling. "I've just been waiting for you motherfuckers to give me a reason!  There is a hard cap on what I'm willing to pay for bullshit, and that's $10.00 a month.  You dun goofed!"

    I was not a mathematics major so forgive me if I’m incorrect, but I think that $30 for 7 months of access is less than $10 per month. 

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    29 minutes ago, TheMailBox357 said:

    Looks like Saban has taken his 2nd portal transfer this cycle:

     

     

    Georgia linebacker and potential super senior Trezmen Marshall has entered the portal according to sources. As first reported by On3.com. 

    Marshall was a career backup at Georgia at position group in the form of linebacker that’s seen nothing but NFL players in front of him. 

    Marshall and fellow 2019 signee Rian Davis signed as apart of a three man line backing crew alongside Nakobe Dean. Dean obviously went on to be a Nagurski finalist and a three round draft pick. Marshall will be a graduate transfer.

     

    His high school highlights were special.

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    10 minutes ago, Okcool said:

     

    Can confirm. Hosted a work dinner in Austin tonight. Happened to be in private room next to mine. Looked like he was having a good time. Hopefully dinner just a formality and this one is already wrapped up. 

    Ok cool, which restaurant 

    And how were the diners you were hosting? Hopefully tipped well. 

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    19 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    And showing up and working hard in practice doesn’t get you paid either.  Results on the field for guys like him. 

    Surprised this wasn’t mentioned:

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