'25 (in-season) - '26 CFB Portal Thread
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I agree with you but have a bit of faith. This year was a transition year. My hope is that next year will stabilize to more normal numbers.
I agree wholeheartedly. Why the hell would any school want to put too much money and resources into high school recruiting moving forward when you can just go out and buy a team. In the end, we will likely be one of the most active teams in all of college football in the portal, importing the best of the ISU roster, keeping the best of the PSU roster, and adding some truly upper level portal guys from other schools as well. It worked for Indiana. Each of the final four teams has a substantial portal component to it.
Indiana, Miami, Ole Miss, etc proved turnover is just fine
There are a decent amount of one and done players transferring in. Next year will be a big turnover of the roster again.
I hope you are right. I am skeptical. Bringing in 20 guys from ISU and running off players from our normal recruiting footprint seems very risky to me, but I know Campbell is a really good coach, so I hope his plan works.
You don't know that and neither do I. We didn't mesh this year and we were a senior dominated team. We lost an entire recruiting class so he filled that with mostly starters from ISU. Like I said before those guys were 11-3 and 8-4 the past two years. Not bad.
It's a fresh start so guys want to explore their options especially when their position coaches are gone. Not surprising. That said Campbell needs to refill the ranks and he needs quality players and I like what I'm seeing. We'll see how it works out next year.
I'm not sure. I realize this was abnormal for us but we are just a small fraction of the 4,000+ in the portal. It seems like an epidemic in college football until someone makes some rules that make sense.
I did notice that there are a lot of kids with one year left. You have two ways to make it up. Recruiting or portal. Given the chaos of the portal, my hope is that the NCAA reigns it in. As it stands now, we may never see another Kaytron Allen or Nick Singleton in college football ever again.
Given the timeframe he was stuck with I'm not sure he had a better option. But yeah, it is a worry.
The team might be 7-5 next year, but we were 7-6 this year, not 10-2! BGJ ran his course and his tenure was over when they turned to jello after losing to Oregon.
Coach Terry stepped in and saved us from a 4-8 season!
Not if that means running off one of our own. Peoples is a talented prospect for sure, but by the end of the season he was third/fourth string at OSU. It isn’t like we stole their starter.
He had to back fill, for sure, but 20 ISU guys? I hope the mass influx of transfers to PSU works more like Indiana than Colorado.
I don’t think it matters one way or the other. Martin is really an athlete playing the RB position. I don’t see him as an alpha or dominant RB. It may or may not work out for him. Time will tell.
Fair but why would he stay at this point when we brought in 2 backs with experience
Yet, many watch the opinion hosts and drink up all their BS as fact without ever questioning it.
An Indy similarity is that they are largely coming from the same team where the coach knows who the top notch players are and they don't have to learn a new system. Colorado couldn't vet that many players coming from so many programs. Once the players arrived in Boulder, they had a lot to absorb.
I’d like to give Martin the benefit of doubt and believe he will stay because he has already given his word.
To some people, their word counts.
They certainly do. Its a horrible epidemic in this country.
I get it. Completely get it. But having that type of success with that many guys from the same team is going to be tough to duplicate. Again, I’ll be rooting for Campbell and everyone who will be in blue and white next year, but this could go sideways very easily.
I also think the coaching staff in Indy is light years better than in Boulder.
With the WR 'room' it was a disaster. Howard is the only one any of us should want back. Fine with everyone he brought in as a WR
If a team can theoretically upgrade their roster by firing their coach and hiring a new one who picks the best of the rosters at his old school and the new one, shouldn’t schools fire their coaches every couple of years? 
Thinking we end up with one or two of Mylan Graham, Quincy Porter, or Noah Rogers
The portal is open to the 16th
Him leaving is because the situation changed if he does
Why would anyone expect or want him to stay if he's unhappy with what has transpired?
If he's happy--great
If not--good luck
What about the 10-2 players that got their asses kicked by UCLA and NW?
Is there any rumblings in your area of what the local HS coaches think of the Campbell hiring at PSU? Good buzz, I hope?
We really missed out on Conception from NC St last year. He went to A&M and had a fantastic year.
It does not matter to me if it is a transition year. Fans are losing interest.
Even osu fans are losing interest. It is tough for fans to stay loyal when it is nobody on the team is loyal.
I don't want to cheer for iowa state wearing psu jerseys.
NJ kid and one we recruited hard so a prior relationship exists. I think this is one to watch. It will be very interesting to see OSU without Hartline moving forward.
Don't mean to sidetrack this thread, but I'm a bit excited about our getting this recruit: he's the very first Penn State football player from San Antonio ... at least in my lifetime.
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He also fits the mold of a bigger receiver which campbell likes. hope we can get this one over the line.