Tre Harris WR
Tyler Grubbs LB
Harlan Dixon RB
Omar Sims DL
Allen Walker LB
Kylen Villanueva LB
Khiry Morrison WR
Joseph Mason LB
Kershawn Fisher EDGE
Ivan Thomas TE
Christian Archangel S
Taz Marshall CB
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Tre Harris WR
Tyler Grubbs LB
Harlan Dixon RB
Omar Sims DL
Allen Walker LB
Kylen Villanueva LB
Khiry Morrison WR
Joseph Mason LB
Kershawn Fisher EDGE
Ivan Thomas TE
Christian Archangel S
Taz Marshall CB
I look for Nussmeier to hit the portal. His showing in the SEC CG should get him some attention and NIL money. If he stays, he will sit next year and the have to beat out Howard after that.
#LATech adds transfer LB from SFA. Former Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Year. #HBTD
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjOhS6mX...pg&name=medium
He only has two years left unless he gets a waiver since he played 5 games this year before his injury. Any player entering the portal should be denied any waiver request submitted by the previous school for the year a player enters the portal.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
I don’t even like college sports anymore. We developed a connection with players like Speedy, Kyser, Taylor Young, Hunter Well, Parker Bates, Matt Broha, the Graham brothers, and so many more from years past. We connected with the program because of a connection to people. I don’t really care much about a group of guys that won’t be here next year after I finally remember their names.
This was the worst news we could have gotten today. No too surprising though. Also worried about Crosby, hope he does not want a bigger stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Question, if you don’t know who is on the team from year to year, can you be held responsible for failing to build a team?
I’ve been sick of this ridiculous game for years. This crap is not worth the time or the price of the greatly over priced tickets.
Adapt and overcome. They teach you that in the military. Always taught by someone screaming and often with live rounds being fired over your head.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
I don’t see how that ever works at Tech. Player has 1 good season and he is gone. Build an offense or a defense around 2-3 really good players and have all of them leave? That mentality works great if you are 3-4 deep at every position with draft picks. Next man up is easy when the players are 1 and 1a as far as ability. Look at lsu running back and qb situation this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom
I have moved on from most of the professional sports, just don't care anymore. Now college sports, which has become "professional-light," is quickly following the same path. Personally, I think college sports is on a path to suicide. Oh, because of the big buck$ it'll survive/thrive for a while, but eventually when that which made college sports so special no longer exists, it'll fade away.
Need to stop putting players' names on their jerseys, and who the hell needs a program? Why should fans give a damn what #52's name is? (or any number).
Pittsburgh's starter (Kedon Slovis) is in.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
You are right, our only chance is grab guys moving up (who can actually play) and take guys moving down looking for playing time.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
I don’t disagree with you completely. I want to see our TEAM succeed. However, that success is at least partially built on the names on the backs of the jersey not changing every year.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
No lie. Nostalgic for a time that no longer exists and never will again.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
There is no “our” team. Those days are gone. College football is nothing but a vehicle for gamblers.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
It could be that there‘ll come a day when it’ll be hard to identify an athlete worthy of being inducted into Tech’s hall of fame. Nobody will have the resume or stats to deserve it. Oh I guess we’ll lower the standards someday because participation should count for something.
We may not have seen the last of Grubbs. He’ll probably end up on a team we’ll have to play next year.
Yep. The ship of amateur athletics has sailed.Quote:
Originally Posted by glm47
Sanders tells Colorado players to get into the portal. Says he's bringing smart & tough guys from Jackson State, most of the positions are already spoken for, so adios! Jump in the portal. He also chastised them for being losers for two decades and the fans, alums, and supporters of CU deserve better.
Alrighty then...:shocked2:
Wanna be SWAC to Big 12. This will be a cluster
Prime is already ruffling enough feathers that if he starts having real success, the investigators will set up camp around Boulder.
Haynes King, Kedon Slovis, Clemson QB in the portal, we should be able to pick up a QB.
I’m not going to go looking, but you have to wonder how many of those players had FBS offers and how many would get FBS offers even now. Probably not many.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
So. we just lost our best player to the portal.
If nothing else, this makes it easy now. Cumby can now take some risks in recruiting and the transfer portal. He can either let this "Grubbs news" bury him and his career, or he can say "screw that", get off his ass and flood LA Tech with quality and edge recruits. Nobody's position is safe. There are no protected players or positions at LA Tech. But there's a lot of "playing time" to promise new recruits if you need to do so.
Burn this one to the ground, and start over. BUILD WHAT YOU WANT, Cumby. This probably needed to happen anyway.
To our ADMINISTRATORS: This is what happens when schools let someone like Skip Holtz hang around far too long and destroy the roots of a good program. LA Tech fans figured this out way back in 2016 and 2017. That's when fans started voting with their feet and boycotting JAS games because they HATED the Skip Holtz "style of play" and did not like J'Mar Smith at QB. It's a fact. You can trace all of today's problems back to 2016 & 2017. The JAS crowds have continued to get smaller and smaller ever since. The fans figured it out a long tine ago. Why didn't our administration?
I get it about how important it is to have a really good and competent QB. What I’d prefer to portal transfer guys who may or may not be good one after another every year or two is to be able to develop those kinds of players. We’ve got QBs on the bench and more recruited QBs coming in so let’s stick with what we’ve got and help them be their best. Why would a recruited QB come here if we’re constantly kicking them to the curb for some other team’s deserter?Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle2180
That Clemson QB sucks. He's practically being run out of town by Dabo Swinney.Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle2180
Dumb and Dumber… Reneau followed by Guice. It’s like the Valdez’s captaincy… a floating disaster looking for a rock to run into.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
LOL! Yea, he sucks bad. Dabo has been taking heat for sticking with him so long.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
Well, immediately after Clemson's ACC Championship game win, Swinney bragged on the freshman QB Cade Klubnik, named Klubnik the starter for Clemson's upcoming Orange Bowl game against Tennessee, and even told everybody within earshot that Klubnik is the future of Clemson football.Quote:
Originally Posted by glm47
HAHA! That's a pretty definitive sign that it's time for Uiagalelei to get out of town. :laugh:
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/sto...k/69702821007/Quote:
After struggling early in Saturday night’s ACC Championship Game against North Carolina, Uiagalelei was replaced by freshman Cade Klubnik, who guided the Tigers to scores on four straight possessions en route to a 39-10 victory the Tar Heels.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney confirmed after the game that Klubnik will be the starting quarterback in the Orange Bowl against Tennessee on Dec. 30.
I’m feeling pretty pessimistic tonight, but why invest time in a kid who is going to transfer the first chance he gets after getting some film on himself at Tech?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg
That's why our players have got to experience WINNING at LA Tech. Winning develops friendships, teamwork and camaraderie amongst players. Having those relationships and winning makes it a lot less likely that they will choose to leave. When a team member is losing all the time, experiencing injuries and doesn't feel hopeful about the future, the probability they will transfer out skyrockets.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
2014-2016 was a good time. 2019 was a good season but not as fun to watch as 2016’s offense.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
It’s weird how quickly things change. A few years ago it was considered bad recruiting to stock up on JUCO guys instead of high school players. Now it’s completely flipped, a coach needs to recruit the portal first and then see what’s leftover for high school kids. The way Dykes did it is how we will have to build a program if we’re going to be successful.
I keep telling myself that it's going to level out. It just has to.
This year's transfer portal is a lot of the class from the covid year, when there weren't camps, visits, and in some cases any or much high school ball. So it was always going to be a crazy portal year.
But it's not fun.
To me, Grubbs leaving says a whole lot about the status of Tech as a program and more to the point, the defense. I base my thinking on the fact that Grubbs was a skyrocket type player who came out of nowhere from within Holtz’s recruits who might’ve never played if not for everyone else getting hurt. Grubbs was undoubtedly Tech’s MVP. Without him on the field we’re an easily more noticeably worse team. He’s the type of hard nosed naturally gifted player that a coach can build a defense around. And he was that for every year he was healthy enough to play. Grubbs downfall came from caring too much and playing too hard to make up for all the lesser athletes he had to try to cover for. He hurt himself trying to play the positions of 3 guys at once. Him leaving tells us we’re a bad team with a dim future led by coaches he doesn’t think are capable of turning things around in the time he has left to play college ball. It’s sad and embarrassing.
Well, that or he thinks he can get more money and a higher profile elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg
Hey, we're #1 in something!
https://twitter.com/TomVH/status/1600129757001105409
Correct. It has to do with opportunity.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
HD: 2016 with Trent Taylor, Carlos Henderson, and Ryan Higgins was fine. 2017 and 2018 were the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by HogDawg
And the Administration didn't figure it out because they were as big a problem as Holtz. Behind the scenes they mismanaged the rollout of COA and our budget in general, so much so that Holtz had to publicly call out our AD at the time.
Combine Skip's issues with his offense, staff turnover, and finishing out big games and an Administration at the top that didn't really know what was going on around it and you see where we are today.
Last year we lost a ton and brought in a ton. I wasn't really broken up about any one guy that left, even though I'd have rather they stayed (and the numbers weren't great). Means was really the only one to have moved "up" right? Grubbs leaving hurts, but that's the risk these days of having a young player blow up. From now on, freshman all-American status is going to be a pretty mixed blessing for us (I guess it kind of always is, since it means you're playing a freshman a lot of minutes, it's just that it used to correlate a little more with 3 more years of good play).Quote:
Originally Posted by The Historian
A healthy Grubbs all season might have been worth another W or two this season, don't you think? A healthy Grubbs and Means back? That is maybe the difference in some of our closer losses.
That's why I'm enjoying D2 ball at Harding.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
It is what it is.
$10-15 tickets/free parking. Not too shabby on the tailgating.
2.5-hour ballgames.
And my guy's on scholarship. Excellent school. Solid coaching staff that I respect.
Vying for a national playoff each season.
But that's me. You'd have ask my guy for his opinion on all this.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg
Grubbs reminds me a lot of Chad Beverage from back in 2005-2006. He started out like gangbusters and was everywhere on the field, making incredible tackles. But carrying that load by yourself as linebacker must really take a toll. I think he was injured during his sophomore year and never played anywhere again, as far as I know. It was obvious Grubbs was shouldering a load like that for the last two years himself.
This is why I watch the FCS playoffs closer than the bowls. Just an all around better environment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
College football is basically unwatchable now. Might as well watch the NFL.
There’s no real reason for a school like Tech to invest in Football. The current NIL, COA, and Transfer realities make it virtually impossible to suceed without massive amounts of money being dumped into the program.
I still like college better, but at least the NFL has shorter games.Quote:
Originally Posted by revf
I would be in favor of a 2 minute limit on reviews. If you can’t determine the correct call, clock, and ball spot in 2 minutes, the call stands. Also, split screen to run ads while the ball is in play. No more TV timeouts.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
I would be all in favor of dropping back to D2 and focusing on basketball and baseball or scheduling several money games a year for revenue purposes to help build the other programs. We will never ever compete again in NCAA football in any meaningful way. The days of us going to Bama or Michigan St and winning are over. There’s just way too many obstacles that a team like Louisiana Tech must navigate to be able to be consistently competitive. The transfer portal is just one more obstacle that benefits the haves at the expense of the have nots.
This is probably where most mid-level schools should end up.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Focus on Basketball, Baseball, and Softball. These are sports with moves to be made and much more parity available to us. There is no more parity in football.
Part of me wishes that the P5 would just split off and form their own division allowing the G5 to reorient around regional conference lines.
What’s the probability of all P5 sports splitting off? Will they just split football?Quote:
Originally Posted by revf
I wonder how many of these transfers are guys wanting to leave versus those who have been more or less asked to leave or recommend that they go? Surely it works both ways. If Tech is going to get better they’ve got to make room for some better caliber players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heavyarms
Need to split for all. The other sports are at a huge disadvantage also. 100% it will happen in the next 5-10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Colorado State leads 23-19 now. Other than Grubbs and Harris, I don't see anyone in that is a significant loss other than for depth. Tech needs more than depth right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heavyarms
Over 1,000 players have entered the portal. The Cotton Bowl, Tulane vs. USC, just might be the very last college football game I will ever attend in person. The very first CFB game I attended involved Tulane, way back in the mid 1960's, so this closes the loop.
As of right now I am done with it, to the point I will invest my time and dime. Will still watch some on TV, but I have lost interest to the point the effort to go to a game is not there anymore. Never say "never" but...
I hate it but you are probably right.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Knowing us, we'll fail to make the switch until after the other programs have all well-adjusted to the new reality and we'll end up at the bottom of that too.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom
You should start a new category for those first two, the Transfer Portal Traitors. The others I understand, lack of playing time, etc., then go for it. But for two star starters that get all the playing time and recognition they could possible want, well, that's different. I think Kody Russey was the founding member of that club.
This is why I played golf 4 out of 5 home game saturdays this season and why I may go 6 for 6 next fall...
Based on the comments on this thread, it appears that the transfer portal as it currently exists is not good for college football. The portal needs to be tweaked. Playing time should be a major consideration concerning whether a player can transfer without having to be inactive for a season. The portal should be available to those players that are being denied playing time for whatever reason, and not to rob a team of contributing players. This is especially true for the mid-majors like Tech. Also, a good athlete that finds himself/herself being unable to gain playing time at any school because they are buried in the depth chart should be able to move on to a location where they can secure playing time without any penalty. This is common at the P5 programs that are magnets for loads of talent, but a lot of that talent sits on the bench because there always seems to be an endless supply of players slightly more talented, or bigger, or faster, or stronger coming into the program. It is my considered opinion that if the transfer portal remains as it exists today, it will prove be costly to college football. Some of you may cease to be willing to buy a prize parking spot and refer to it as a donation to LTAC.
It only matters if it's good for the P5. College football be damned.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharky
The reason for the 2.5-hour games?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
Media timeouts of no more than 1 minute (vs 45 minutes of the TV-required timeouts)
No Play Review Timeouts of 4-5 minutes.
Oh and all their games are at least live-streamed by the host team. (Some decent broadcasts, but not all are of the best quality).
Would the Ruston community rally around a D2 team? Probably not like the should when P5s are within 5 hours of drive time in almost all directions.
Can anyone name the very first D2 National Champion?
I'm gonna guess TECH!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
Not sure how accurate these projections are, but on3.com has predicted the following:
Tyler Grubbs 100% to UCONN.
Tre Harris 100% to Mississippi State.
Allen Walker 100% to Maryland.
Tre twitted out offers from: Mississippi State, West Virginia and Oklahoma.
Tyler twitted out offers from: UCONN, Tulane, Troy, and Arkansas State.
Allen only twitted out an offer from Martland.
UConn?
That's pretty insulting. Must be forking over some NIL money.
I would have guessed Tulane.
Yeah, Uconn is just crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
I don't thing Grubbs move is about NIL. There has to be more here than we have heard so far.
I kind of doubt the UCONN prediction, even though they are in a better place than we are at the moment. I think he is hoping for a P5 offer. If these remain his only offers I think he goes to Tulane. He played high school at Holy Cross in New Orleans. He comes from a stable family background, so I do not think NIL is the deciding factor in his case. I think the first sentence of Bone_afide’s post sums it up nicely….. “Grubbs leaving says a whole lot about the status of Tech as a program….”
I mean, Tulane I can see. I still wouldn't love it, but he'd be going closer to home, they had their best year in the last 25ish years, I'd get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
UConn also had a better year than average for them, but I just can't see how they're more desirable than a TON of places where I would expect he'd have an opportunity.
I don't care enough at this point to look into it, but if you want to find the link, it's probably a UCONN assistant with NOLA ties.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Today on3.com acknowledges Tyler now also has offers from UCF and Appy State. They now predict UCF 53.3% and UCONN 46.7%.
Also Tre received offers from Penn State and Minnesota. They predict Mississippi State 53.3% and Penn State 46.7%.
I think all on3.com does is post the schools that the players have posted on social media and guess from there.
That being said I guess Tre goes to Mississippi State. Tyler picks between UCF and Tulane. Who knows at this point they both may get better offers before it’s all over with.
Lots of opportunities for receptions there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom
And they have at least one opening, based on the slightly salty tweet from one of their WRs this week (I think it was a WR).
As for Grubbs, I'll just say again that losing a guy (that you'd want to keep and aren't running off) to UConn would be quite a blow. To a P5, it sucks, but that's the current situation. To another G5 with more money or close to home or where you might fit better in the scheme (or all of the above), it sucks a little more but it is understandable. To UConn? That's almost worse than losing a kid to ULM.
They guy you are speaking of is a running back, but very funny nonetheless. Kind of stupid on his part but oh well.
Sure UCONN has had some hard times since the Big East dissolved but they are in a better position than us right now. They are bowl eligible, are a program that is rising and have a coach who has been an NFL head coach.
We are a program in decline and fired a burned-out coach and replaced him with an incompetent or overwhelmed coach (time will tell which). We better hope he is just overwhelmed and his plan to turn us into a winner works and works soon. With the way our conference is aligned moving forward that should not be that difficult.
Screw 'em! I'm sick of hearing, "Can't blame the players...."
Same with Junior...our fans were up his butt after he put UAB on his list of possible transfer spots.
Either be a Tech fan or not.
I seem to remember him making some kind of comment or post on Twitter that indicated he definitely wasnt going there.Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
I agree and this idea deserves its own thread. Let’s just face reality and get off the D1 rollercoaster and have fun again at games.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Question (anyone): Could we go D2 in football only and stay D1 in our other sports? I see D1 football getting seriously, deeply corrupted pretty quick with NIL and The Portal.
Nobody thought he was actually going there. The fact that he listed them as a "possible" was the rub. He likely tweeted out the "not going there" thing after he figured out his mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tech52
What does a coach even say to a recruit now? What does a coach expect to hear from a recruit?
I'm not sure there would be a realistic point to staying D1 in the other sportsQuote:
Originally Posted by Rama Jama
Besides, the conference would not allow us to do so as our name isn't "UAB" so it would be against the bylaws.
This is a non-starter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rama Jama
But if you're going to discuss it, you probably ought to clarify if what you want is FCS (which is D1) or actually D2 (which is a whole 'nother thing).
The trends are always up. D2 can be really fun (as DP has experienced) but lots of D2 schools have been trying to go FCS (just like FCS schools tend to want to be FBS). You can get squeezed in the middle just like you can at the top.
Man…some of us caught hell for saying the Sunbelt was where we needed to land when the AAC passed on us. Now we’re talking about the Southland?
Not even.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
If they're being precise (which I'm not so sure of), we're talking about the Great American Conference.
Every team that’s moved up since we joined CUSA has either passed us, or are on par with us. Tech isn’t interested in being a real FBS team, and the results on the field show that. Our goal has always been to be better than the UL twins, and now we have even failed at that. Unless we are going to make a commitment to being at least a competitive G5 team, we should try and focus on other sports besides football.
Accepting failure will only lead to more failure. Think back to how all of Tech’s sports have been crap before and not all that long ago either. Under Simoneaux Tech baseball was purely pathetic. He was the Holtz of the diamond. And remember Lloyd of men’s basketball… Tech just recycles sucking at things without ever quite getting back to greatness.
That doesn’t seem fair. Tech’s been to 7 bowl games in the past 9 years and played in 2 conference championship games.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Goes back much further than that. Around 1990 to be precise. Tech loves doing less with less, that’s their mantra.Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
And a school that truly cares about those things would be finding ways to build on “success” or SUCCESS. We don’t do that because even when we hire someone who claims to pursue greatness, they fall way short or don’t appear to even try.Quote:
Originally Posted by T1
Bowl games require winning 5 FBS games and a home game against a FCS team. I would say making a bowl proves you have a pulse, definitely doesn’t show that you’re an elite G5.Quote:
Originally Posted by T1
You originally said “competitive,” not “elite.”Quote:
Originally Posted by SicemDawgz
Don’t forget 5-7 teams sometimes make bowl games so that just goes to show that the majority of bowls are just participation recognition events.
Tyler Grubbs committed to the Green Wave today.
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Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom
Good job, Kurt Hester. LOL,
Hester was probably the man behind the curtain most responsible for Tech’s players’ successes. It wasn’t Holtz or their position coaches.
It sure seems like our conditioning and overall strength in tackling is much worse. Agility has declined as evidenced by guys being out of position a lot on tackles.
Was it better last year?Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05
Nope...Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
To me Hester was over-rated...
Maybe Hester seemed better because our players 3 years ago were just better. Either way, crap has to change. I skipped 2 games this year without hesitation. That’s not me.
Tyler Grubbs to Tulane
https://twitter.com/GreenWaveFB/stat...96754199531522
Man, losing him to an in-state school stings worse than just losing him outright. I pray I don't see the day when our best players start jumping ship to the likes of ULL.
there is a SC coach available . . . that has put a LOT of kids in the NFL
Does he know how to train kids to be tough and mean? Most players that come to Tech will never play in the NFL. We are going to get kids that play the game because they love it and want to continue to play after high school. With NIL the cards are stacked against La Tech. We need tough kids and tough coaches. We need more players like we had in the JRP days, I don’t think many of them made the NFL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
Would love to get Damon back in the fold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Choudawg86
He may come available with the coaching change at Texas State.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
IMO, poorass tackling was the cause of our losing several games this past season!!Quote:
Originally Posted by techman05