**22/23 Transfer Portal Thread**

[The Full Monte]

This is going to be a busy day for news, and involve Iowa much more than normal, so starting a separate thread for it

For those waiting on Iowa news, it might be Wednesday before we hear anything on guys coming here. The D2 WR from Hillsdale may wait till next weekend as well.

 

[The Full Monte]

 

[The Full Monte]

Tyler Barnes just started following this kid

 

[The Full Monte]

Erick All, TE from Michigan is another name that’s been floated heavily

Erick All Rumors

Erick All Rumors

247sports.com

 

[Mr. Hawk]

“We have entered a wild place, and anyone coming in wanting any kind of supply cannot pick and choose his portal.”

- Rooster Cogburn

 

[jabberjaw]

The D2 WR from Hillsdale may wait till next weekend as well.

Well he's not going to have a spot if he doesn't hurry.

 

[The Full Monte]

 

[eclone]

 

[The Full Monte]

Have to think he’s eyeing a legitimate CFP contender for next year

 

[gable_guy]

Girlfriend must not have been enough to keep him at Pitt.

 

[The Full Monte]

Girlfriend must not have been enough to keep him at Pitt.

He had a pretty disappointing year at Pitt

 

[newsbreaker]

What happens to the many kids who enter the portal but don't find a new home? I'm sure a bunch of them go back where they came from, but it can't be all of them. Are their careers just over?

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

What happens to the many kids who enter the portal but don't find a new home? I'm sure a bunch of them go back where they came from, but it can't be all of them. Are their careers just over?

Hopefully.

 

[Hawk_Kegmasters]

He had a pretty disappointing year at Pitt

Well it’s been difficult for him to throw the ball ever since A.J.Epenesa tore his arm off in the holiday bowl and beat him with it.

 

[The Full Monte]

All the Iowa guys are following…

 

[jabberjaw]

What happens to the many kids who enter the portal but don't find a new home? I'm sure a bunch of them go back where they came from, but it can't be all of them. Are their careers just over?

Maybe it's time to think about an actual career.

 

[Fletch]

Maybe it's time to think about an actual career.

Just about all of them will be going pro in something other than sports

 

[Verbal]

This is fucking stupid.

 

[The Dad]

This is fucking stupid.

Thanks for weighing in Kirk.

 

[Verbal]

Thanks for weighing in Kirk.

Certainly.

 

[Soda Popinski]

It's like a train wreck. It's kind of fun to watch, but it still fucking sucks.

 

[douglasbader]

This is fucking stupid.

It's NBA free agency with no rules or structure and everyone is on meth and 20 grams of coke.

 

[rodg12]

All the Iowa guys are following…

Not a portal guy. Class of '23 recruit. We were one of the other teams heavily recruiting him before he committed to Nebrantska.

 

[The Dad]

Arland Bruce IV received NIL money to transfer. That’s how fucking stupid this all is.

 

[newsbreaker]

As long as Iowa can use it to improve, I think it's fun as hell.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

This is fucking stupid.

I'll be shocked (prove me wrong!) if this is an environment Iowa flourishes in instead of the initial dread that all of us had when this can of worms was opened. Iowa just isn't the kind of school/ university/ city/ state that is going to make a huge splash in this era. We'll continue to be a developmental program finding the diamonds in the rough.

 

[Shawneemicks]

What happens to the many kids who enter the portal but don't find a new home? I'm sure a bunch of them go back where they came from, but it can't be all of them. Are their careers just over?

Only about 40% find new scholarships

 

[Verbal]

It's NBA free agency with no rules or structure and everyone is on meth and 20 grams of coke.

It's the worst and least interesting part of college football (recruiting) made perpetual for every player, new and existing. There's just no way it is sustainable. The NIL ruling didn't completely eliminate the NCAA's ability to implement regulation. Figureitout.gif.

 

[Soda Popinski]

I'll be shocked (prove me wrong!) if this is an environment Iowa flourishes in instead of the initial dread that all of us had when this can of worms was opened. Iowa just isn't the kind of school/ university/ city/ state that is going to make a huge splash in this era. We'll continue to be a developmental program finding the diamonds in the rough.

Iowa will developing them for other teams now.

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

This is football Dad/Mom's wet dream.

 

[kenos]

DJ needs to be converted into a TE, if he can learn some basics in the short time he has left.

He's not a power 5 QB.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

Iowa will developing them for other teams now.

I don't think that will be as much of an issue as we're afraid it will be. Besides WRs of course.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

But we don't really develop WRs so whatever.

 

[The Full Monte]

This is football Dad/Mom's wet dream.

“We’ll take our talents to a school that actually recognizes the unique gifts and talents of little Tommy! These coaches just don’t get it!”

Jeff Christensen would have had a field day with this shit

 

[CamelTones]

This is football Dad/Mom's wet dream.

Tate Forcier in the portal era would have been magical.

 

[Jayhawki]

OSU?

 

[The Full Monte]

I don't think that will be as much of an issue as we're afraid it will be. Besides WRs of course.

That changes in an instant with a mildly competent Offensive Coordinator though

As Tyler Barnes so unartfully pointed out, the pro style, run heavy system can be ultra effective. The difference of course is that the layering in their WR routes is orgasmic.

 

[cloudhawk]

Many have Dreams, Oliver Miller reality

 

[rodg12]

That changes in an instant with a mildly competent Offensive Coordinator though

As Tyler Barnes so unartfully pointed out, the pro style, run heavy system can be ultra effective. The difference of course is that the layering in their WR routes is orgasmic.

And the horses up front. Need those back.

 

[FrodoTBaggin]

Has this transfer faggotry infiltrated Iowa's local high schools as well, like it has here?

 

[kenos]

OSU?

Imagine Spencer's brain in an all-NFL body, and that's poor DJ.

Seeing what he's done here, I don't see him being much better anywhere else. Too late to learn a new position unless he takes a Covid year, and he's just not wired to be a QB.

 

[The Full Monte]

Arlen Harris, Stanford RB transfer, likely headed to Iowa State

 

[CamelTones]

Not a portal guy. Class of '23 recruit. We were one of the other teams heavily recruiting him before he committed to Nebrantska.

Doesn’t sound like Iowa is actually willing to take him at the moment. I think they’re waiting to see if Leshon Williams enters the portal.

 

[kenos]

Arlen Harris, Stanford RB transfer, likely headed to Iowa State

that's dismal, on so many levels.

like going from Giselle to some gap-toothed meth slut from Cedar Falls

 

[rodg12]

 

[Soda Popinski]

Arlen Harris, Stanford RB transfer, likely headed to Iowa State

What an idiot!

 

[BuffettHawk]

 

[Thanksgiving Dinner]

Doesn’t sound like Iowa is actually willing to take him at the moment. I think they’re waiting to see if Leshon Williams enters the portal.

Seriously? Williams is an upper-classman and you have to bank on Johnson being an early entry at this point. Regardless of what shakes out with the portal, it seems stupid as hell not to take 2 RBs in this recruiting class.

 

[CamelTones]

Seriously? Williams is an upper-classman and you have to bank on Johnson being an early entry at this point. Regardless of what shakes out with the portal, it seems stupid as hell not to take 2 RBs in this recruiting class.

Williams will be a junior and Johnson can’t go pro for 2 more years. They’ll be gone at the same time.

 

[Thanksgiving Dinner]

Williams will be a junior and Johnson can’t go pro for 2 more years. They’ll be gone at the same time.

If Williams doesn't bolt to be the lead back somewhere else after next year. Regardless, Barnes was a higher priority than the already committed RB, and taking 2 RBs in each class is just a sound approach anyway. This smells like a retread of the Deandre Johnson/James White situation.