Deaconblue
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Cortez Andrews is a safety turned linebacker from MD who is in the portal. Might be worth a look.
That doesn’t seem to be closer to home. Guess we can scratch that one off the list.
Holy shit. Too bad D’Antonio isn’t still there to get his parents patronage jobs. Fucking garbage. You just joined a program that lost to Rutgers two months ago.
Wait, I thought we had a culture issue? This shows an alternate set of facts that we are the third best in the league regarding the portal leaves.
TimmyC MAY have isolated the primary issue. If so, WF’s response should be to develop much better strategies to DEVELOP better exposure for our own program. Guys like John Wolford actually help. But if you look at other guys in the NFL, how many are sending accolades back to WF? WF has got to be much smarter about developing exposure, insisting upon it, and paying for it. Does WF staff for this properly? I doubt WF, prior to Currie, has even considered a real strategy to increase “exposure.” Sure, lots of media and SID type staff but that is ultimately routine without sophisticated planning and execution. Clawson and Currie can focus on this more regardless of Newman and Walker, and simply focus on it more for obvious reasons.
I don't think at all it's a problem within our program, it's pretty obvious that it's problem caused by the new transfer rules.
Michigan State’s rushing game was lol bad this year, so at least he should get plenty of playing time.
Here are the number of players currently in the transfer portal for each ACC school, according to 247, while most have not announced, some have already picked their destination:
BC: 6
Clemson: 3 (one five star to Florida and two four stars)
Duke: 8 (a DL to Michigan State, DL to Penn. State, DB to TT, two QBs)
FSU: 11 (a DB to State, a DB to BC, a DL to State, WR to Indiana)
GT: 12 (a DL to KY, WR to S. Carolina)
L'ville: 10 (DB to UVA, DB to K State)
Miami: 2
State: 7 (including starting QB Bailey Hockman)
UNC: 15 (including DB to ECU, OL to Arizona State)
Pitt: 2
Cuse: 9
UVA: 7
VT: 7 (including QB Hendon Hooker, and two 4 star OL to L'ville and WV)
WF: 5 (KW3, Rucker, Kendral Flowers, Peyton Woulard and Isaiah Essissma)
There are several schools with double digit players in the portal. TN may have the most with 17.
numbers alone don't tell the story. I would think based on quality and production that we have been hurt the worst over the last several years.
The gloom and doom here is baseless, but it's a sad never-ending theme with some in our fanbase.
When the ACC expanded adding Florida State, it was predicted that WF football would suffer. How can WF compete with the mighty Noles. The rest of the ACC will leave us behind. Instead, WF football raised its level.
When the Power 6 conferences realigned to 5, it was predicted that WF would get left out, or if WF somehow didn't get left out, WF couldn't compete in a conferences with schools with more long-term football success like Miami, VT, L'ville and ND . Again, those predictions were wrong.
Now, WF is in the middle of its best continued run of success in football in a 100 years, and some are claiming that WF football (and now apparently, basketball too) will suffer because players can transfer without sitting out a year. The implied message is that if players are free to move on to other schools, all of the good WF players will leave; while no "good" players from other schools will want to come to WF. Such a massive inferiority complex.
The 4 year grad transfer rules had been around for a decade+ and WF didn't have a track record of losing grad transfers to "more high profile" programs, even though WF had far more top level 5th year players in position to do so because of Grobe's and then Clawson's redshirting policies. In light of the expanded transferring rules, it boggles comprehension how so many here fear that WF's better players can't wait to get out of Dodge. Despite a ton returning players who would be welcome at almost any program, everyone is returning except for 3 players who had fallen in the depth chart, and now, two players that opted out because of COVID.
You know who the biggest LOWFers are? WF own "fans". When you travel around the country and talk to people about WF sports, the general responses and attitudes about WF are far more positive than the seemingly never ending "boy, how's WF sports going to survive this" when anything new comes up. With or without KW3, WF will be very good in football next year, and would expect that WF to continue to recruit and attract transfers at a high level. With the leadership that WF now has at the AD, football and basketball level, WF is smarter and more adaptable than just about any in the country. Change is good for WF because we have the people who can and will continue to take advantage of it.
This. Sparty sucks. Have fun Kenny. Now I don't have anyone to pull for in the Michigan/MSU game except horrible weather for shit programs.