'25 (in-season) - '26 CFB Portal Thread
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Possibly incoming beef !
This kid and Anto Saka please on the DL.
This is just me spitballing, but some of these ISU kids were getting next to nothing in NIL last year. Maybe some of this is on the cheap? And we could have some funds elsewhere for big names over the next couple of days/weeks.
Possibly incoming beef !
Whoa. Dude listed at 6'5", 320 lbs on their roster. Size isn't everything, but yes please!
PSU Recruit on his official visit: Is this heaven?
Matt Campbell: No, it’s iowa.
Matt Campbell: No, it’s iowa.
Have you seen our schedule? No OSU, No Oregon, No Indiana. 8-4 would not be a good season, first or last.
chase sowell’s brother has committed. He’s a safety.
Yes, I've seen it- this is a rebuild, not a reload. The Blue-Sky Brigade is setting itself for disappointment.
Most of the posters expected a national championship last year. This wasn't a team without talent. This was a team without a good coach.
So now you’re shifting gears to last season and the fantasy that BGJ oversold? First, that’s in the past and has nothing to do with “a quick climb to greatness” expectation for CMC and next year’s team. Which nobody expects (so a straw man), especially in light of the timing of firing v. hiring, which caused a mass exodus of both roster players and 2026 recruits. As a result, the huge ISU influx is a necessary restoration of a roster, to be supplemented by portals in from other schools. That’s the next step, already underway.
Oh, you mean like Miami not having that much success in the ACC this year (lost twice to middle of the pack ACC teams and didn't even qualify for ACC CCG), but eliminated duhO$U in duhO$U's first Playoff game who was undefeated in the b1g Reg Season, had a 1R bye and entered Playoff as the #2 Seed????
Whats to rebut? Your take is idiotic. If you do not grasp that this staff's accomplishments in Iowa State over a decade was near miraculous, given resources, location and recruiting challenges, there is nothing more to say than post a laughing emoji.
To begin with, JMU was 11-2 in Cignetti's last year. Generally, an 11-2 JMU has talent that is comparable to, if not worse than, an 8-4 Iowa State team. Cignetti took 13 players from 11-2 JMU after he left.
Further, I am in the camp of believing that luck and timing had a lot to do with Cignetti catching lightening in a bottle with this Indiana team. There is no way to know if the players from a dozen different teams will come together as a cohesive team as it only takes a few problematic players to destroy a team. I am not taking anything away from Cignetti's coaching ability as he is beating top tier teams more consistently than Franklin could ever do in his best years, I just think that it is unrealistic to expect a coach with a limited budge to create championship level teams by cherry picking players from "a dozen different teams" without being extremely lucky. It is obviously safer to go with the players you know and Cignetti did exactly the same thing.
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If Lando was a broken clock he still wouldnt be right twice a day.
Campbell is cherry picking players from the team that he coached. He knows what they are capable of under his system. There is a greater chance at success grabbing players that he is intimately familiar with than grabbing players from other ACC teams / BIG 12 teams with similar success or grabbing players from lower rated conferences with greater statistical success. Obviously, grabbing studs from the BIG or SEC is optimal but you are generally going to have to over pay for these players. Given the across the board needs for PSU, PSU is simply not in a position to overpay for a single stud at this point. Overpaying for a proven stud receiver or a stud linebacker would have been justified last year given the returning talent and high expectations, but not this year.
Hey cherry picking is a work of art --
Check out -
Any SEC team
Hey cherry picking is a work of art --
Check out -
Any SEC team
Mistake if true.Widely reported that Grunk is going to VT.
Ethan Grunkemeyer expected to reunite with James Franklin at Virginia Tech
Ethan Grunkemeyer is expected to transfer to Virginia Tech, reuniting with James Franklin after his breakout run at Penn State.sports.yahoo.com
You and other living in denial doesn't make me wrong but admitting that is tough for some of you
Cignetti pulled 13
Cignetti pulled 13 from JMU when he came to IU so there is that.
4 of the ISU transfers are 4 star. Yes, most are 3 star but that doesn't mean they are mediocre.
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Was looking at his bio and in high school he lettered in "unified bocce". Who knew there was such a thing as a high school sport?
Wow. Looking at the PSU incoming transfer portal it looks like this new staff is really "surgical" about how they're spending their NIL money. 99% Iowa State players and pushing away some good existing talent at PSU by doing so. Lot of thought put into this one......
Yes sir. And who does PSU have in the transfer portal....ISU, ISU, ISU, ISU, ISU, ISU, ISU