Trevor announces he's entering the portal

Etienne against a DE is a mismatch. You could send him out on a route and have the OT block the defensive end. You know, have the OL block the opposing teams linemen, instead of forcing your undersized RB to do it. Instead we have RBs and TEs attempting to block the opposing DE and getting whipped. At times we end up pounding the square peg into the round hole on offense, with predictable results.

 

RBs these days are a dime a dozen. Need good Oline scheme with good Guard pull

 

So, is EW3 next?

 

Maybe this means Montrell is staying. If so, ETN is still a loss, but Webb will be another year older and hopefully Carroll is recovered and ready to contribute.

Maybe BN decides to let Montrell get 20-25 carries a game instead of 15 and we can see his potential as a bell cow. Idk just trying to be positive, next man up.

 

Knock this crap off.

Emmitt Smith could barely block as a freshman, but Galen Hall put him in the game late (first game of the season) when we were losing to Miami. He saw what Emmitt could do, and he started thereafter, including trampling the Gumps. Galen understood who was hot, and who was not.

This is a huge loss. Period.

 

Again?!? We haven't been good for a few years!!!

 

Big brother chimed in back in September and questioned his use, said he should go play for "Coach Crime".

To me, this hurts from an optics standpoint waaaayyyyyy more than talent.

TE is a great back, but you've gotta find a way to keep players from NFL families.

I'm so disappointed in so many things with this coaching staff. I've tried being patient, but I can't see the on field product getting any better next year.

If we have another .500 or below season, does he get a 4th year?

 

I dispute the "bunch of mercenaries". Maybe half-a-bunch.

Either way, I like them apples more than your apples.

 

Um, half mercenaries and half "these guys"?

 

Sorry to see this but not surprised at all.

Good luck Trevor and thanks for your contributions!

 

I hear ya Bazza. TE had so much potential. I guess nothing should be surprising nowadays.

 

History says NO!

 

Hate to see him go.

The thing people fail to realize is having an experienced starting qb coming back next year is far more important than losing a rb like ETN. He’s the best of the bunch this year, but dropoff isn’t nearly as massive as ppl make it out to be.

However, I do hope he reconsiders.

 

We will be fine at RB with Trell, Webb, Carroll, Daniel and potentially Baugh.

 

Top 5 Public University, baby!

 

It’s not our win/loss record. It’s the state of college football. Ohio State went 11-1 and still lost a bunch of dudes to the portal.

 

That's the problem, we need to be more than fine somewhere if we want to be a tier 1 SEC program again. All this staff has had going for it to this point is recruiting, which goes out the window if you can't keep the central pieces to your team. And according to De La Torre, half of his first class has entered the transfer portal or left.

I'm not saying it's impossible he digs himself out of it, but he's dug himself quite a hole. The biggest reasons we should ride the storm are
1. No good can come from firing him now with signing day just around the corner.
2. Scrambling now to find a viable replacement would likely lead to us going through the same crap 3-4 years down the road.
3. It IS still possible he recovers, however unlikely that may seem, and we save buyout money by keeping him longer.

 

You need to change that:

This is the beginning of the end of college football

 

The defensive linemen transfers are more problematic. I don’t think the sky is falling just yet. That first signing class, we had to scramble to piece together. Not sure many of those are huge losses, but yes some like ETN and McClellan hurt.

 

This staff isn’t tier 1 IMO. We just need to get to tier 2 and stabilize. Tier 2 to me is close to playoffs, maybe sneaking in once in awhile when it moves to 12