Riley Williams Portal

[Negro-Wan Kanobi]

That 2023 class

Heard about this for a couple weeks, I wanted to ask if it was true.

No need now.



He's still homesick?

 

[JG14]

Eh, thought it was odd McCormick played so much more than him if he supposedly had so much potential. Thought he gained too much weight too quickly and it slowed him down some.

Guess this means Jackson Carver might actually stick around

 

[Silentobserver]

2 completely different “starting” roles in our offense. Lofton can’t play Williams’ position and Williams can’t play Lofton’s position.

Clearly this is how Samson sees the field like his frosh year...partly joking.

Not having enough TEs could force Mario's to lean even more into a wide open offense (10 and 0 personnel)...again, partly hoping

 

[UMercury21]

how many more years can mccormick get?

 

[felix]

Doesn’t want to play with Emory Williams?

How do you know he doesn't want to play with Emory? I call BS.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Should have got the snaps instead of McCormick . Keeping 9th year TE has now cost the team a player. Good luck Riley.

What a ridiculous post.

Sure, giving him more snaps would have made him less homesick...

 

[CaneSB]

Justice Haynes was not a potential starter, for the second time...

But good job on "many more" and not naming "many more"...

Isiah Bond also last year. Every team is losing “potential starters”. It’s undeniable

 

[P-Tizzle]

Heard about this for a couple weeks, I wanted to ask if it was true.

No need now.



He's still homesick?

My brother from a better mother, you didn't tell us?

 

[423Hurricane]

Nature of the beast that is CFB these days

 

[CaneSB]

Justice Haynes was not a potential starter, for the second time...

But good job on "many more" and not naming "many more"...

And justice Haynes had the second most carries of Alabama RBs. That would make him a similar player to Mark Fletcher. What a silly hot take

 

[Invalid Username]

Meh. Give me Brock all day

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Clear the wax out of your ears man.

Lofton was discussed as an EMERGENCY RB if we went into the season with only 4 RBs and somehow needed to give carries to a 5th RB b/c of injuries.

Same posters who SWEAR to you that Brian Monroe was a starting WR for 10 games...and that they saw it with their own eyes...

 

[flips]

Typically I’d agree with you. But my eyes tell me that they were completely negligent and totally incompetent.. What about this 2024 defense would you want out there in 2025 besides Oj ?

I was a just being glib, about the folks who drone on about how the coordinators need carte blanche to hire the position coaches, and how I anticipate if the new DC is given a clean slate that some of those same posters will lament Nicholson and Taylor getting let go because they're good recruiters. I think there are good arguments to clean house based on how bad the defense was and good arguments to keep Nicholson and Taylor on account of how well they recruited.

Personally, I would keep them both because they both have done a fantastic job recruiting, and I think the narrative that our coordinators aren't as successful as they can be, because they aren't allowed to hire whomever they like at each position is mostly bunk. These are adults and professionals; it's their job to make it work. Also, it's not hard to imagine how allowing a coordinator to hire his boys might also be problematic. Like, do we really think that all that was standing between Guidry and success was giving him the chance to hire the LBer and DL coaches in addition to the CB coach? I don't.

 

[Dwinstitles]

Once again he's next up for TE1 . Wtf these kids doing

because he probably isn't and knows it, he's in that locker room

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Brother, I said, at worst he's 2TE. But you can also see with your eyes that he wasn't a target for the offense for whatever reason.

We had 4 fantastic WRs (stats-wise) and only 1 football.

 

[DTP]

only for some teams

We actually have very few players in the portal compared to a majority of P4 teams. We had CJJ, Horton and now Williams. Arkansas had 28 players from last year’s roster enter the portal.

 

[Angry Ibis]

he doesnt play hard. he goes through the motions.

Poor culture then. Missed eval.

 

[PIPO]

Admittedly I haven’t kept track of all the TE’s we’ve had visit during this portal period but if they had a sense this was going to happen, what TE’s have we been in contact with and how many have visited?

They’ve had a sense for weeks now (since before Wake Forest week) that Riley was 90% gone.

I haven’t seen UM bring in one TE or been mentioned for one unless they have had secret visits.

Inexcusable to not have someone lined up and I don’t want to hear the “they have their eyes on TEs on playoff teams” excuse.

 

[Gransapo]

Klare Bear Stare

 

[twes.305]

Never really do it with him. But the TE sucks now.