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Will be easy enough to tell, if he starts popping up on other campuses, including his official to Texas in June, you know it’s open season still. after what we saw in December at the end of last cycle it’s hard to feel like any verbal commitment matters at this point.

I had a good chuckle at a username of Beard N Balls Bundle being the sensible and leveled voice in the room. Thank you for making my Saturday.

I’m old enough to remember the panic in the summer of 2024 over DT recruiting 😂 … let’s all try to remember this in 2025.

QB feels like a position where you need one in every class knowing that not everyone is going to eventually start for you. If Arch stays two more years, either Lacy or Owens will transfer. This is part of bringing in top recruiting classes every year, talented players will leave and very well may be successful in other places, but we will keep the ones we want and keep stocking more talent behind them.

It’s definitely not a bad thing, all I’m saying is even if they would commit it’s such a long road ahead.

Well and if last cycle was any indication those conversations continue through signing day in December. Early commits are fun, but in this day and age they certainly don’t mean a ton until signing day.

This might be the most wild part of it all. It’s honestly painful to watch, this should have been us.

The work around is simple isn’t it? school hands out $1 contracts, then the NIL Collective pays the QB the $2M dollars.

Didn’t take long.

Agreed, we won’t be as good, but hopefully can still be good if Muhammad can continue to improve and our safety play will still be very strong.

Coach Choice has publicly said they are not. We will run with what we have, which means they must feel good about Baxters progress, or running it back with Blue and Wisner till Baxter gets fully healthy later in the year…

It’s wild to say this, but with how we have recruited over the last 3-4 years, we are in an elite space where we have to get use to losing 10+ guys to the draft every year and being able to reload and still be elite. Georgia and Alabama did it for years where they would lose a lot and still be top four teams. I think now with the transfer portal on top of our good high school recruiting we can do that. sure it creates uncertainty every year because you will always be rolling out new sets of starters in key spots, but you have to imagine the staff knows what they have to a certain extent in these backups. which can mean one of two things, we have been quieter in the portal because they are confident, or we should be concerned because we haven’t done enough in the portal in places of perceived weakness.

I’m seeing a lot of way too early college football rankings having us as #1 for next season, and my guess is a lot of that is Arch hype, and to be honest I’m not too well versed in what other top teams are losing/gaining, but from an early glance here is my position by position view of if we could be better or worse… and yes, I know it’s too early to do this, but I need to do something to not think about yesterday, so humor me. QB: better or even, I think Arch’s mobility is a game changer RB: Better, Baxter returning will help WR: Big question mark here, we weren’t great in 2024, so I don’t see us getting worse, but will need a big transfer. TE: Probably worse here OL: the inexperience scares me, but if we get the USC transfer and Campbell comes back that could help. Offense Overall: Improved because of the run game will bring much needed balance. Edge: Improved due to experience, this will be a strength. DT: Potential weakness here, need these transfers to pan out, they don’t need to be rockstars as I feel our LB’s and Edges can bring that, but they need to be solid LB: Improved due to experience CB: Worse just because of Barron and Mukuba losses, but should still be above average group. S: Solid, especially if Taffe comes back Defense Overall: slightly worse because of DT and CB, but should still be a very stout defense. P: Improved, can’t get much worse K: No idea what to expect here, need a transfer. thoughts? Where am I wrong?

Looks like they confirmed the game will stay Friday as the weather is trending against a lot of snow. My personal fear is that means rain and potential freezing, but most seem to feel it’s trending positively.