Kevin Beard

[cway313]

Might want to bump a Jacorey Brooks portal thread.

 

[cway313]

I agree.

All I'm asking is for the posters who keep saying that we need to get a guy, to actually list the guy we need to get and why we need to get him.

Just adding players is how you end up with guys like Kirk who don't even play and is a waste of friggin space. We only need to portal for absolutely proven upgrades. Not just cause a guy is an upperclassmen and played a few games before.

I agree with the sentiment but stating that their aren't high quality portal options is unobjectively false. This year alone I would have taken Zachariah Branch, Eric Singleton, Nic Anderson, Duce Robinson, Noah Thomas, and Barion Brown all as upgrades to what we have.

 

[MumbleRap]

Who are some names y’all feeling?

Hines Ward intrigues me from a crooting standpoint

 

[Rellyrell]

For the “let’s go portal” fellers:

Here’s our portal WR history:

2019-
KJ Osborn

2021-
Charleston Rambo

2022-
Ladson

2023-
Harrell

2024-
Brown

2025-
CJ Daniels

 

[Angry Ibis]

For the “let’s go portal” fellers:

Here’s our portal WR history:

2019-
KJ Osborn

2021-
Charleston Rambo

2022-
Ladson

2023-
Harrell

2024-
Brown

2025-
CJ Daniels

So you are saying we should look for some Manny guys in the WR room...

 

[Angry Ibis]

Cooney is addition by subtraction

Hightower has been Marked Safe Today

 

[cway313]

For the “let’s go portal” fellers:

Here’s our portal WR history:

2019-
KJ Osborn

2021-
Charleston Rambo

2022-
Ladson

2023-
Harrell

2024-
Brown

2025-
CJ Daniels

To be fair, outside of Ward, Martinez and a few other less notables we haven't exactly been great at the portal under Mario.

 

[dade305cane]

For the “let’s go portal” fellers:

Here’s our portal WR history:

2019-
KJ Osborn

2021-
Charleston Rambo

2022-
Ladson

2023-
Harrell

2024-
Brown

2025-
CJ Daniels

Brown was the biggest disappointment to me out of that group because he had the highest ceiling. Hope we hit on CJ.

 

[Rellyrell]

To be fair, outside of Ward, Martinez and a few other less notables we haven't exactly been great at the portal under Mario.

 

[sedlst11]

Yea you won’t like it.

 

[sedlst11]

For the “let’s go portal” fellers:

Here’s our portal WR history:

2019-
KJ Osborn

2021-
Charleston Rambo

2022-
Ladson

2023-
Harrell

2024-
Brown

2025-
CJ Daniels

Go look at the Sam brown thread.

 

[E1k]

Curtis Johnson was a terrible recruiter his last few years at UM. In fairness, his primary grounds were Louisiana and his suckiness coincided with Nick Saban locking up state at nearby L$U.

Yea i was thinking an analyst role is perfect for him here

 

[MedleyCane]

Yea i was thinking an analyst role is perfect for him here

This and it sure is good to have at least one gray beard on each side of the ball in the event a coach or two needs to fill in during bowl season.

 

[DTP]

Depends on the player I.e if Jeremiah smith wants to come home he’s a take regardless…

The Houston kid was a bad portal pick up mostly on hindsight because all it did was eat reps that would have gone to jojo, Carr or chance which would have been invaluable now. Cam would have made those young kids look great and built confidence… Beck is still a very good college QB and I still have faith he will put the ball in their hands.

I think we the Houston kid and the Marshall DE Alston were both probably costly investments when someone like Bryant or Lightfoot should have been playing. Seems like we learned from that and not just taking guys and risking younger talented players transferring or stunting their development

CIS told me we needed to take Sam Brown because Restrepo was going to suck without Van Dyke, Jacoby George was going to get kicked off the team and Isiah Horton was a jag.

 

[hoops156]

Hightower has been Marked Safe Today

no guns being pulled here

 

[hoops156]

CIS told me we needed to take Sam Brown because Restrepo was going to suck without Van Dyke, Jacoby George was going to get kicked off the team and Isiah Horton was a jag.

in hindsight, had we just played Jojo with the others, we might have been way better off

 

[hoops156]

Brown was the biggest disappointment to me out of that group because he had the highest ceiling. Hope we hit on CJ.

sucks horton left. him and CJ would have been nice but CJ replacing Horton stings. i think horton is better

 

[DTP]

in hindsight, had we just played Jojo with the others, we might have been way better off

Agreed. I didn’t hate the Brown pick up and I don’t think he was bad but Horton made the jump and we could have used that WR4 spot for some of the younger guys. But you know, hindsight being 20/20 and all.

 

[ST26]

To be fair, outside of Ward, Martinez and a few other less notables we haven't exactly been great at the portal under Mario.

That's because our philosophy in the portal was a lot different. When Mario first took over, we didn't have the depth that's needed to be successful. You needed those cheap portal rentals while you build your roster through high school recruiting. Now that we've done that, we really should only be prioritizing the portal for those high impact players. Also, your exact comment proves why you should prioritize developing your high school talent.

 

[cway313]

That's because our philosophy in the portal was a lot different. When Mario first took over, we didn't have the depth that's needed to be successful. You needed those cheap portal rentals while you build your roster through high school recruiting. Now that we've done that, we really should only be prioritizing the portal for those high impact players

Well that approach got us 12-13. High impact players should always be the philosophy.