'25 (in-season) - '26 CFB Portal Thread
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It means Grunk made an awful decision on multiple levels...
Who wouldn’t want to get Knowles back together with the exact guys that played his defense this season?!?!
Tennessee took the worst aspect of our 2025 season to make it their own. Good luck! 
SMH. PSU has 30+ portal guys coming in and counting and we are going to throw insults at others. FFS.
What we do is correct
What everyone else does is cheating...even if we also did it
That's one excellent player (Campbell), one improving player (Gilliam), and one athletic & potentially excellent player (Coleman) from PSU's 2025 defense. Be interesting to see how they blend with UT's existing talent and if they can form a dominant defense.
He could have stayed at PSU. Can't run from competition.
Can we stop with this "can't run from competition"?
Becht was starting in 2026--period
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I hope the Vols know what they are getting themselves into with Knowles and his complicated defense.
He a 6' 4" - 208lb. Safety from Glenside Pa. with 3 years of eligibility remaining.
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You need to gauge the noise to content ratio of the idiot who was pushing the guarantee narrative. Sh*t Franklin did not guarantee Grunk a starting position and he has seen him for two years.
That ship has sailed long ago. Penn State has three QBs committed; two in Campbell's system and an incoming freshman. They have much bigger fish to fry for 2027.
Yep.
I fully undetstand Becht is the 26 starter. @ PSU. Not disputing that. Just saying he could have stuck around and competed for 2027 at PSU. Now he is required to compete for 2026 since they brought in another QB and he's going to be in an offense that doesn't exactly ft his skill set.
maybe he wanted to compete for a 2026 starter's job
But he wants to at least have a shot to start in 2026--having a chance to start is way better than not
He needed to leave--Va Tech was just a horrible decision because of the scheme
Sure. And I get it either way Becht coming in. But your statement is correct - he left in order to have a chance to start in 2026 which was essentially not possible at PSU. He didn’t leave to walk into a situation where he would be automatically the starter.
Correct, he has not signed. He visited and everyone assumed it was a done deal but it isn’t.
Isu qb ran more than psu. What makes you think isu offense fits grunk's skillset?
I don't think he was looking for a guarantee, but a chance to compete
I also think he's still looking around
We don't know what was initially communicated to him by the VT staff either way (guarantee or compete). Remember CJF is the one who constantly said there were QB competitions at PSU and I never believed that to be true. He had his choices and stuck with them.
Becht is certainly a better runner but their passing game extended the field much more than PSU and Grunk is really sound/accurate with his long passes, able to hit receivers in stride. I think the new offense at PSU us a better fit. As some have said, he still might be looking around, has not signed yet.
I don't think either offense is a great fit for him. Grunk is truly a pocket passer--he doesn't want to run at all. Now the offense coming to Penn State would work better than what Franklin wants to do but he'd have been dumb for staying just like he'd be dumb for going to Va Tech,
He'd be smart if he'd even be willing to go to a G5 program for a year then move up. Just go somewhere to play that runs a pro style offense or is willing to.
The 26 recruiting class is pretty good considering where it started from.
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