Link: 2026 Transfer Portal

[NoNC4Tubs]

If all CM does is handle the contracts/player negotiations, thats only done twice a year. What does he do the rest of the time? Contracts arent negotiated on a weekly or monthly basis.

Dunno, but evaluations are the position coaches job, aren't they?

 

[tusks_n_raider]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2010446708862488846

They have serious ground to cover all right.

Real Time SEC Portal Team Rankings:




This is just horrific.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

There's a fine line between what should be and what is. Yes I know. You're just arguing to argue now.

The GM at any program should be evaluating....period.

That is your opinion of what it should be. Reality is that it isn't.

 

[Cruloc]

They have serious ground to cover all right.

Real Time SEC Portal Team Rankings:

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This is just horrific.

It screams that they are getting out worked or the have no idea what they are doing with no real plan....or both.

I guess when things come crumbling down around this staff....they'll just say there's a fine line between getting transfers and not getting transfers.

This staff needs better direction.

 

[Cruloc]

That is your opinion of what it should be. Reality is that it isn't.

No, it is reality.

If you think Jim Nagy at Oklahoma isn't doing evaluations or most NFL GM's aren't doing evals, then your reality isn't reality.

 

[BamaBoySince89]

We used to look at recruiting rankings to tell who the top teams would be.

Now we can just look at who has the most money coming in from billionaires.

And this is how college football dies, to thunderous applause.

I’ll lose interest in watching sports ran by billionaires who have nothing else better to do than to destroy the last decent thing we had going. It’s like they suck the soul out of everything

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

They have serious ground to cover all right.

Real Time SEC Portal Team Rankings:

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This is just horrific.

From 24-7: Look what we have coming in. Many are enrolled.

 

[bamamc1]

It screams that they are getting out worked or the have no idea what they are doing with no real plan....or both.

I guess when things come crumbling down around this staff....they'll just say there's a fine line between getting transfers and not getting transfers.

This staff needs better direction.

No they’ll just tell everyone to “temper their expectations.”

 

[Bamabuzzard]

Dunno, but evaluations are the position coaches job, aren't they?

Once camp starts and the season starts, when would a position coach have enough time to do player evaluations? Off the field analysts and recruiting coordinators should be doinng player evaluations once camp and the season starts. A GM generally does player evaluations too along with "scouts" or college footballs equivalent which are the paid off the field staff. The GM should be fully invested in player evaluations and if we're not doing that, that may explain Morgan's "temper your expectations " comment because we struckout on the portal.

 

[Cruloc]

So the situation on Smothers.....

He was on campus...enrolled.....I'd assume we tried to get him to sign an agreement and that his agent told him not to because his agent was still testing the market to see what Texas might offer.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

 

[Con]

So the situation on Smothers.....

He was on campus...enrolled.....I'd assume we tried to get him to sign an agreement and that his agent told him not to because his agent was still testing the market to see what Texas might offer.

This makes sense to me @Cruloc.

 

[Tide-one-on]

I was really wishing Smothers was ours and Coleman might stay with us. Oh well...next men up kinda

 

[bamamc1]

This makes sense to me @Cruloc.

Ok, did he not have to sign scholarship paperwork to enroll? This is unbelievable.

 

[davefrat]

I have never been accused of being Mr. Sunshine and Rainbows but some of the gloom and doom on here makes me look like Mr. Rogers.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Well, since the GM doesn’t evaluate and his main function is to close the deal, Bye.

The highest bidder gets the player. Texas has far more resources than we do.

Signing a contract doesn't mean that much anymore. No doubt that Texas could pony up the buyout anyways...

 

[JDCrimson]

So the situation on Smothers.....

He was on campus...enrolled.....I'd assume we tried to get him to sign an agreement and that his agent told him not to because his agent was still testing the market to see what Texas might offer.

Well we need to tighten our process, cant enroll until you sign...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

I have never been accused of being Mr. Sunshine and Rainbows but some of the gloom and doom on here makes me look like Mr. Rogers.

Yeah, this thread is overrun with sad sacks...

 

[RollTide-YNWA]

After seeing all this nonsense this year, I'd be willing to trade a couple of mediocre years for one year with a great, older team to try to win it all. If Deboer came out and stated that he was building towards that goal then I would be ok with it. Trying to compete in this NIL arms race is a waste of time. Its also destroying what remains of the Bama process/culture that Saban built to be Bama football. Fans in all sports have become impatient so I doubt this method would gain acceptance

I almost wonder if this isn't the plan. I got the impression that the Washington team was very tight and loyal to each other and CKD. I'm wondering if he's hoping to build that culture through recruiting and then fill in as needed. Maybe he believes his players won't leave through the portal. There is something to be said for having a team instead of a group of mercenaries, but I'm not sure how realistic it is for the SEC in today's landscape as far as wins and losses.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2010429126713426145