2025 National Recruiting Thread: Sponsored by Oracle

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  1. Saul Shabazz

    Saul Shabazz Best At Being The Worst est. 2024
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    what spin

    guy sucks and has no shot at not being fired in like 3 years
     
  2. Fancy

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    I wish there was some level of transparency so we could know which bag-hunters were worth it and which ones were busts. Like Nico isn't looking great right now, Walter Nolen was worth it, Jaden Rashada lmao
     
  3. TC

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  4. Jake Scott

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    I'm not saying he isn't good but ngl I thought he was going to be a lot better.
     
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  5. Saul Shabazz

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  6. Boo MFer!

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    I mean calling Louis a mid level RB. He’s pretty damn good.
     
  7. Saul Shabazz

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    meh he's a dime a dozen in the southeast

    and honestly if we never sign a heritage kid again that's fine by me
     
  8. 20/20/20/20

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    He’s mid as hell
     
  9. Saul Shabazz

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    Thats not to say he wont score on us many times
     
  10. Saul Shabazz

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    we need a RB that can carry a team by himself with little to no blocking help or any passing threat

    I doubt that exists.....and if it does it isnt a HS kid
     
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  11. yaywaffles

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    maybe he just enjoys traveling
     
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  12. Boo MFer!

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    Oh wow, I see the haters and losers—of which there are many—are all coming out of their shanties to chime in.
     
  13. TC

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  14. Dr. Mantis Toboggan

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    Yeah but that would be an upgrade here
     
  15. ned's head

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    Just need one of these and we're back

    [​IMG]
     
  16. Shinzon

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    Billy may not be able to coach, scheme offense, call plays, make quality hires, organize practice, speak at the podium, or pull off a skin fade haircut very well. But one thing he is surprisingly good at is identifying quality talent in lower-ranked running backs.
     
  17. Dr. Mantis Toboggan

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    To be fair someone else identified and he stole him… which is just as good
     
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  18. Boo MFer!

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    He also stole Baugh from Sam Titman, to be fair.
     
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  19. Shinzon

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    He could’ve taken a “mid RB” from any last place team. You still have to know what you want to steal.
     
  20. Fusiontegra

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  21. 20/20/20/20

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    Baugh is legit. He’s not mid.
     
  22. dukebuckeye

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  23. Boo MFer!

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    And yet Byron Louis is ranked higher than Baugh was as a recruit.
     
  24. CUgator

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  25. dukebuckeye

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    Meh. He's a warm body.
     
  26. Fusiontegra

    Fusiontegra My life is dope and I do dope shit.#SparedByThanos
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    He said respectfully!
     
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  27. dukebuckeye

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    Meh. He's a nice warm body.
     
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  28. Boo MFer!

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  29. gowolverines8

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    I just find it funny all these teams that seem to be planning to build rosters through the portal. This portal cycle is going be insanely competitive/expensive with all the rev share dollars, the success of some portal heavy teams, and bunch of rich programs desperate(uf, usc, Michigan, ou etc). This is not going be two years ago where there was a money ball aspect to being heavy in the portal imo. Abandoning hs recruiting seems dumb dumb to me.
     
  30. bricktop

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    you’re confusing “planning to build through the portal” with classes crumbling for unrelated reasons
     
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  31. Boo MFer!

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    No one is willingly abandoning high school recruiting. High school recruiting is abandoning some programs though.
     
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  32. Goose

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    I was told last year’s portal session was going to be insane and it wasn’t.
     
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  33. Fran Tarkenton

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  34. Truman

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    The spring window wasnt, but the january window felt pretty wild.
     
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  35. Shinzon

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  36. Fran Tarkenton

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    ignoring you posted this with a Caleb Downs avatar

    were you asleep for Nick Saban's retirement fallout?
     
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  37. gowolverines8

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    There’s that too and with the covid kids running out, + rev share I think this portal is going be a big disappointment too.
     
  38. Gunners

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    we’d be 8-3 at best if it wasn’t for the portal
     
  39. Cornfed Buffalo

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  40. Goose

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    Coaches are always going to retire, quit, get fired, etc. Maybe I’m just misremembering, because all I remember is some shit stick on twitter posting about how wild the portal was going to be and it was kind of a letdown.

    edit: maybe this is what I was thinking of. May all of your best players transfer to the bucks
     
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  41. afb

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    that’s just not correct given the class they had in July
     
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  42. bricktop

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    fsu learned the hard way that taking the players uga and bama were willing to lose isn’t a good strategy
     
  43. Celemo

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    There was a small flurry of activity when Harbaugh and Saban left their respective gigs but yeah I remember seeing from multiple sources that there was going to be chaos...yeah some guys left but I felt like it was a let down as well
     
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  44. skiedfrillet

    skiedfrillet It's not a lie if you believe it.
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    WEA RE FUCKING BACK, FOLKS
     
  45. Gunners

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    Think both of you are remembering the ON3 fuckboys saying the spring portal was gonna be groundbreaking and nothing happened

    The winter portal was pretty insane
     
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  46. The Banks

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    What were the highlights of the spring portal?
     
  47. Gunners

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    I just said nothing happened, can’t remember anything
     
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  48. Dr. Mantis Toboggan

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    Small school studs > big school castoffs

    at least that’s how it worked here. Well besides Jermaine Johnson but he was also both a small school stud and a big school castoff
     
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  49. PSU12

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    This is wild
     
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  50. gowolverines8

    gowolverines8 Well-Known Member

    we dont need a salary cap anymore!