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You're right ESPN doesn't list A&M.
This is great. Couple things I noticed:
1. Josh Hand is in the portal
2. Nick Gallo. Only played in 1 game this season so I guess he could apply for medical hardship and come back for season 7(!). I would be pretty surprised though.
3. Turner-Bradshaw is on defense now. Not sure if that is a full-time switch or just for this season? Assuming the former.
The caveat is it's not broken down by position on the line, I think we only really have one player at center as it stands now
Definitely a problem.
The other thing that is concerning is that - yes, it's great that we have 10 underclassmen, but in the new world of college sports, even if we do develop them, we can't guarantee that they are going stay for even 3 years.
I keep thinking back to the Godfrey quote about the existential crisis VT may soon be having, and this is another thing that is just concerning.
wasn't he at texas a&m one year too? i thought unc 2 yrs, a&m, unlv
Last year there were 3600 Division 1 players in the portal, per CBS. At approximately 270 teams, that's 13 players per team.
The amount of criticism they have received the last 2 years had to play a small part in their decision.
Malik Murphy from Duke is in I can't imagine he finds a better landing spot than Duke he was not exactly good
I was surprised at how many O and D linemen we still have on the roster. That makes me feel a little better. The caveat is it's not broken down by position on the line, I think we only really have one player at center as it stands now.
Worth noting that the roster is at 105 by my count, so we will need a few more portal entries to add to our roster.
We're having student body tryouts for Oline this week
OL is bad. But also it's like mega cognitive whiplash to hear about how we should cut them all and fire them into the sun week after week only to then have a trillion comments about how it's bad they're going to the portal and there's a good chance we have 0 returning starters and so forth.
Green is a new addition, red is a departure. Slightly different shades if the player is a transfer, commit, or out of eligibility/declaring.
Per the Athletic, approximately 20% of all FBS scholarship players transferred in the past year.
We don't have a good baseline for what's 'normal' - In addition to the portal/NIL, we've also seen (1) COVID eligibility create more players, (2) elimination of the annual scholarship limit, meaning more 'flexibility' in roster spots, (3) the house ruling likely creating 20 additional scholarships per team, also creating new roster spots. We've seen 4 decades worth of rules changes in the last 5 years.
If you're looking to judge Pry, I think On3 is the best place to get well rounded information - they do a 'net' portal ranking where they subtract the talent leaving the program and add the talent entering the program to determine how much the team's talent level improved/regressed.
Awesome work this is really helpful
Is there a legend for what the colors mean?
An inspiration. The world is a little less bright without her. Rest in peace.
Unpopular opinion... but the OL room is not in as bad shape as I had thought. Losing Moore and Chaplain (I believe both are 'testing the waters' for lack of a better term) is bad. But we have a hefty stable of young linemen. Now Crook needs to develop them.
8 of the OL on the roster are either freshmen or redshirt freshmen, which means they only know one OL coach. Crook has a track record of developing linemen at every P5 program he's been at. It's basically all his guys now. Let's see if he can do it a fourth time 🤷♂️
Very sad news. I had no idea she won an Emmy. I'll have to check out that documentary ASAP.
What a legend. I'll have to watch her documentary soon.
Apparently he hasn't transferred as much as I thought 3 seasons at UNC 1 at UNLV
Having 2 in 3 seasons didn't help. Firing Crook now would be disastrous.
I'm sure he had a plan. The problem is he didnt hire an OL coach that can recruit, develop or coach OL to execute that plan. And it doesn't look like there will be any staff changes. Pry's failure to hire the right people and failure to recognize that and correct it will ultimately be his downfall.
All tied up 👀
Womp womp
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PJ Fleck encourages the team to refer to themselves as the "PJ Flecks" and before each game leads the locker room in singing a parody of the PJ Masks theme song that he wrote himself.
Thanks, I saw someone else post about XTB, but I wasn't sure. I'm assuming he's at CB, but maybe not with safety depth the way it is.
I originally just had question marks next to Gallo.