Portal time 25-26

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by MtnMan14 » Tue Dec 30, 2025 3:40 pm

biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:35 pm
JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:01 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience.
If that was the case we should have won the first game though.
To be fair, I also don’t think we have a lot of talent in demand either lol

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by Bootsy » Tue Dec 30, 2025 3:42 pm

biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
...by a phone that's unlikely to ring...

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by JTApps1 » Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:29 pm

biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:35 pm
JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:01 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience.
If that was the case we should have won the first game though.
We should have been able to beat them, but we came out flat and put ourselves in a hole.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by BUTCH1991 » Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:31 pm

JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:01 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience.
JC French to the portal for them

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by BallantyneApp » Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:17 pm

JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:29 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:35 pm
JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:01 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience.
If that was the case we should have won the first game though.
We should have been able to beat them, but we came out flat and put ourselves in a hole.
Story of the last 2 years.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by 311neers » Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:24 pm

BUTCH1991 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 5:31 pm
JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:01 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience.
JC French to the portal for them
Thank goodness. He cooked us. Well, every QB has.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by 311neers » Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:25 pm

BUTCH1991 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 1:59 pm
We can't have commitments. That would be tampering :lol: :lol: :lol:
“You ain’t tryin if you ain’t cheatin”

Hopefully it’s a QB. Better make the right decision on one.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by BUTCH1991 » Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:52 pm

311neers wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:25 pm
BUTCH1991 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 1:59 pm
We can't have commitments. That would be tampering :lol: :lol: :lol:
“You ain’t tryin if you ain’t cheatin”

Hopefully it’s a QB. Better make the right decision on one.
Someone else saud it was our QB, but I have no idea who that may be.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by 311neers » Tue Dec 30, 2025 7:53 pm

BUTCH1991 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:52 pm
311neers wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:25 pm
BUTCH1991 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 1:59 pm
We can't have commitments. That would be tampering :lol: :lol: :lol:
“You ain’t tryin if you ain’t cheatin”

Hopefully it’s a QB. Better make the right decision on one.
Someone else saud it was our QB, but I have no idea who that may be.
Gamecocks backup is in portal. Hasn’t taken a collegiate snap though, but lit it up in HS in Atlanta. Don’t think he was a DLo recruit to USC though.

Could be anyone but I know we have ties to the Gamecocks and Arkansas guys.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by NattyBumppo'sRevenge » Tue Dec 30, 2025 9:32 pm

Hope it’s the WCU guy

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by biggie » Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:31 am

NattyBumppo'sRevenge wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 9:32 pm
Hope it’s the WCU guy
He seems to be a on a bigger stage. Mentioned in ESPN article about portal QBs and I've seen it said he being looked at by 5 P4 schools (Miami has been mentioned).

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by NattyBumppo'sRevenge » Wed Dec 31, 2025 9:00 am

biggie wrote:
Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:31 am
NattyBumppo'sRevenge wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 9:32 pm
Hope it’s the WCU guy
He seems to be a on a bigger stage. Mentioned in ESPN article about portal QBs and I've seen it said he being looked at by 5 P4 schools (Miami has been mentioned).
It’s a pipedream, but still wish it were him 😂

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by rbarthle17 » Wed Dec 31, 2025 10:21 am

MtnMan14 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 3:40 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:35 pm
JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:01 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience.
If that was the case we should have won the first game though.
To be fair, I also don’t think we have a lot of talent in demand either lol
We do, just not in the direction everyone cares about. I would bet all of those guys would be starters in FCS or lower. And those teams need players too.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by Saint3333 » Wed Dec 31, 2025 10:34 am

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... ket-surge/

P4 is spending irrational amounts of money.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by t4pizza » Wed Dec 31, 2025 11:13 am

Saint3333 wrote:
Wed Dec 31, 2025 10:34 am
https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... ket-surge/

P4 is spending irrational amounts of money.
Those are just insane numbers. Guys that are not talented enough to make the NFL can play for P4 programs and clean up over 4-5 years. Those numbers are unsustainable.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by BambooRdApp » Wed Dec 31, 2025 11:23 am

t4pizza wrote:
Wed Dec 31, 2025 11:13 am
Saint3333 wrote:
Wed Dec 31, 2025 10:34 am
https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... ket-surge/

P4 is spending irrational amounts of money.
Those are just insane numbers. Guys that are not talented enough to make the NFL can play for P4 programs and clean up over 4-5 years. Those numbers are unsustainable.
That is what Kirby alluded to. How is this sustainable. He gets players should get paid. But, it is crazy.
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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by 311neers » Wed Dec 31, 2025 11:24 am

biggie wrote:
Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:31 am
NattyBumppo'sRevenge wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 9:32 pm
Hope it’s the WCU guy
He seems to be a on a bigger stage. Mentioned in ESPN article about portal QBs and I've seen it said he being looked at by 5 P4 schools (Miami has been mentioned).
Maybe his lack of size will scare big programs away and could end up G5.
5’10 181 lbs. Whew. Hopefully he is shifty enough to make guys miss.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by appfanjj » Wed Dec 31, 2025 11:29 am

biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:35 pm
JTApps1 wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 2:01 pm
biggie wrote:
Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:00 am
Stink did get 3 (all OL) in portal already today, so they were waiting.
Let's be honest, GS doesn't have a lot of talent that'll be in demand. We could have easily beaten them with over 25% of our roster missing and a QB with zero experience.
If that was the case we should have won the first game though.
We did snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the first one.
We "turned the game over" to them in the second.

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Re: Portal time 25-26

Unread post by bcoach » Wed Dec 31, 2025 12:12 pm

Really no different than all season. We didn't have a full time HC and we didn't have a full time OC. Hopefully next year we will have full time people in both of those positions. Then I hope he becomes the second best HC we ever had, and we win the confrence and a good bowl. But it only has a chance if we have full time in both positions.

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