The decision has to be made which end of the equation is going to be taken from theory to reality. Because being able to bring in "better players" via the transfer portal sounds great in theory as well until it doesn't work.
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Yeah, and that preceded the End of Days for Alabama football. We lost two games and missed the playoffs. The Dynasty is dead and Saban should be put out to pasture.
Transfer portal and NIL have ruined college sports, look at us this will not be the same team that we started the season with all the transfer and players opting out, everyone says well it gives young guys a chance yes it does but if you want to watch young guys watch the aday game, I heard this morning that someone has came after one of our verbals saying they can get 100,000 first year that's what is hurting college sports
Help me if I am wrong, but since the whole portal thing really took off, I count only 2 portals who really panned out for us - Jameson Williams, and JahMyr Gibbs.
Who am I missing? One might say Burton, but to me he never developed into a go to WR and that's what we needed. Harrell never played. Ricks never played until very late in the year.
On the flip side though, I'm not sure any of our portal-outs have made a large impact at their destinations either.
Who am I missing? One might say Burton, but to me he never developed into a go to WR and that's what we needed. Harrell never played. Ricks never played until very late in the year.
On the flip side though, I'm not sure any of our portal-outs have made a large impact at their destinations either.
Two players from the basketball team last year are starters this year - Jusaun Holt at Georgia and Juwan Gary at Nebraska.
Clemson football QB DJ Uiagalelei on why he entered the transfer portal
DJ Uiagalelei's playing days are done at Clemson as the quarterback officially puts his name into the college football transfer portal.
www.yahoo.com
That's about it. Ricks played well late in the year when he got in, but wasn't the 1st round talent he was expected to be.
Burton seemed to be a drag on the team to me. His production wasn't worth the bad press of slapping a female UT fan.
The only guy that transferred out and was productive that I can think of was Shane Lee at USC.
*EDIT* Derp. I forgot about Drew Sanders. That guy might be a first round pick.
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Basketball. These are the only guys I'm aware of that have transferred from Alabama and improved their situation.
My understanding is that not only is he struggling to add weight to his frame, he has been injury-prone as well. Player evaluations also took a hit during the time we were recruiting him thanks to COVID. Recruiting services can make up whatever nonsense they want, but good coaches aren't the least bit concerned about what the "experts" think. I feel like a lot of players simply weren't properly evaluated due to restrictions at the time and this is the result. Just my opinion, tho.
Oh yeah I forgot about Sanders as well. That was a big one.
I'd say the only straight up 'Miss' right now for us is Harrell but that's injury related.
Henry To'o To'o was also very good for us at times. Tbh when he struggled most he was asked to do things he shouldn't have been asked.
Burton put up almost the exact same numbers as he did at UGA
I don't know why it took so long for Ricks to start but in the end he worked out and became a starter.
Jamo and Gibbs were obvious Homeruns.
Then with the notable outs:
Drew Sanders became a starter at Arky
Javon Baker had a solid year at UCF
Shane Lee had a solid year at USCw
Joseph Bulovas was Solid for 2 years at Vandy
I won't name anyone else because they either found out they weren't good enough to climb anyone elses's D1 Depth chart either OR they completely flamed out and are looking to move again.
Our biggest loss was probably Sanders and that we couldn't find a way to keep him on the field.
I’ve wondered all those things myself.
Interesting that his brother isn’t in the portal…at least not yet.
I think his brother stays...Funny, and I could be wrong here....but didn't we take James so we could get to Tommy?
To'oTo'o was a solid pick up for us. He knew defense and without him, we would've struggled a lot in past 2 years.
Ricks was injured. He didn't know defense either, and that complicated things.
Sanders- Transferred because he wanted to play different position, only to end up playing same position Saban wanted to play him at. Sander made a dumb decision. He would've started for us this year. He was upgrade over Moody. This was on Sanders, not Alabama for this.
Baker- Had issues at Alabama. Always in Doghouse. He's not a miss.
Shane Lee- Dude couldn't find a path to playing time at Alabama. He did well at USC.
Bulovas- Definitely not a miss. We had a better kicker.
Agiye Hall- We all know what happened
Camar Wheaton- didn't see lot of playing time this year.
Paul Tyson- Transferring again after 1 year at Arizona.
Jahleel Billingsley- Got kicked off the team at Texas
Tommy Brown- Transferred to a school who fired a coach and brought in Deion Sanders who told everyone to hit portal
The point is that it's normal. Sometime we have players that doesn't work out at Alabama and goes to major school and does well. sometime they don't do well. It's nature of football life.
I disagree with you strongly over Drew.To'oTo'o was a solid pick up for us. He knew defense and without him, we would've struggled a lot in past 2 years.
Ricks was injured. He didn't know defense either, and that complicated things.
Sanders- Transferred because he wanted to play different position, only to end up playing same position Saban wanted to play him at. Sander made a dumb decision. He would've started for us this year. He was upgrade over Moody. This was on Sanders, not Alabama for this.
Baker- Had issues at Alabama. Always in Doghouse. He's not a miss.
Shane Lee- Dude couldn't find a path to playing time at Alabama. He did well at USC.
Bulovas- Definitely not a miss. We had a better kicker.
Agiye Hall- We all know what happened
Camar Wheaton- didn't see lot of playing time this year.
Paul Tyson- Transferring again after 1 year at Arizona.
Jahleel Billingsley- Got kicked off the team at Texas
Tommy Brown- Transferred to a school who fired a coach and brought in Deion Sanders who told everyone to hit portal
The point is that it's normal. Sometime we have players that doesn't work out at Alabama and goes to major school and does well. sometime they don't do well. It's nature of football life.
He went and played for a DC who knows what the hell they are doing and he turned him into a Borderline 1st Round NFL pick.
Barry Odom has fielded legit Top 10 Ds with MUCH LESS talent than Golding.
Golding was NEVER going to create a situation for Drew to thrive.
Drew made a smart choice and the loss IS on Alabama.
Didn't James played mostly center in high school? Finding the "right guy" in the middle is pretty important as we've learned the last couple of years. Maybe that's the plan for him?
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