There will be a few Grad transfers after COVID ages out but I don’t remember any pre COVID.

Our best targets for transfers are guys who walked on at big schools, and found they didn’t play much and likely didn’t earn a scholarship. Not the most exciting of transfers but in some cases they are players who can contribute here. Example Smalley at UCLA, Simonson at Nebraska, and even Cloyd who at least for a time was an Oregon State walk on. Get them as underclassmen, like Cloyd and Simonson.

The recruiting classes a few years ago were smaller in anticipation of guys hanging around.
We had 18 players who announced their graduation, there will be some loss to transfers, and some guys who didn’t announce will move on, as Poerio did last summer, after being on the Spring roster.

Once the COVID year is gone, grads won’t have remaining eligibility unless a player redshirts and graduates with his class or earlier. It is the two years of remaining eligibility that makes a grad transfer appealing since they can actually get a grad degree in many cases in two years. You can’t do much at Davis in one year, as school doesn’t offer much in the way of one year grad programs, other schools might have something vocational. And even the football program will have less interest in a one year transfer. Tattersall, Castles, Smalley all had an extra year due to COVID

Both of those guys actually graduated from their first schools. Thats what most of our losses are doing as well. When the extra COVID year fades into history transfers will drop off from schools which students initially chose because of academics. Underclassmen will still be bouncing around among less academic schools, but you won’t see as many senior or graduate transfers.

I’m in

Players are leaving because the’ve accomplished what they came for. They aren’t leaving because of who the coach is. The defense is going to struggle next year due to all the players who have played their final year and players who move on, that probably influences others having friends depart.
We lost 4 linebackers that played due to using up their eligibility.. A fifth, the team captain graduated after four years. Suani used up his eligibility.
Chubba and Kennedy have been here 4 and 5 years respectively and are transferring. , Budgett and Bearden have been here five years, they likely have earned a degree if they want to apply.
There is no academic reason for many players to hang around for 6 years.

For Larison hold your breath until the date undergraduates can declare for the NFL draft which i think is Jan 15th.

Coombs got a big promotion from defensive analyst to defensive coordinator. And he had very limited experience as a defensive analyst and quality control guy, just a few years.
If it is Daft that would be great, as he a Plough must have worked well together the year they shared a role, or Plough wouldn’t choose him.

That they have one “in place” sounds like they have someone who has agreed to terms but can’t announce it right now. To me that sounds like someone currently employed by a team and they don’t want to announce it as it might impact a bowl game or recruiting.
I don’t think it will be a former players who has not been coaching. That would be great if they hire a QB coach.
I think Daft is likely comfortable where he is, so I think someone else.
For a real reach on who it might be: A guy who has been an offensive coordinator and QB coach for NFL teams that got. $2 million buyout from Kentucky. Whatever he earns decreases the buyout so maybe he doesn’t care about the salary. Got his start coaching at Davis under Biggs. Rich Scangarello

The tempo makes it harder for the opposing defense to substitutes between plays. But if the offense can’t sustain drives than their own defense doesn’t get a significant rest.

The coaches here that Plough hasn’t worked with are mostly on offense Burke, Chapatte, Shanbour, Allen, Shimabukuro. Almost everyone on offense except Mike Cody.

It’s a pretty high bar you have when you say only Maier excelled. I guess you disagree that Hastings was good 2022? Rodrigues was also good until he got injured trying to play like Tompkins. We have a tendency to expect the QB here to not only be all league but to be a pro prospect. That was possible in the 1970s 1980s because big college football didn’t recruit pro style QBs, except for Cal and Stanford, everyone else was running option offenses,
In 2022 Davis had outstanding offensive stats. Production fell off with many of the same players, but they would have made the playoffs if not for key injuries. I think Cody Hawkins departure hurt the offense, he was the QB coach as well as the offensive coordinator, and apparently a pretty good one. But the sky is not falling, we have a three star qb commit, and a three star freshman, we have a number of good receivers. We desperately need another running back for depth

I found it refreshing to run the ball down the other teams throat. I hope they can still do that with Plough. If you’ve watched aggie football through the years a poor run game is a frequent feature. Third and 4 had to be a passing down.
Big unknown is whether we’ve prepared another QB. Evidence of never playing a second QB, almost uniquely in the conference, is that they don’t feel they have one. Foolish considering that Hastings will be in his sixth year if he comes back.

2022
Cal
#2 South Dakota State
#12 Weber
#4 Montana State
#15 Idaho
#2 Sac State
Rankings as of game day

. My point is that what we’ll see with Plough will be similar to what we saw without him, before this last year when the offense took a step back,
Plough likely would have done better with the 2023 team. I think Plough is a good hire, but we aren’t going to see a offense much better than what we saw under Cody Hawkins,

In 2019, Ploughs last at Davis, with Maier, the team averaged 28.67 points and 433 yards of offense.
In 2022 under Cody Hawkins, with Hastings, the team averaged 35.91 points and 486.5 yards of offense,

i hope they keep Mike Cody as offensive line coach. The O line performed pretty well, and they had an innovative and effective run game. Plough will likely take over as offensive coordinator and QB coach. Cody has also done a good job of recruiting.

Rex is not a player who has been here already for four years like the guys who are known to be leaving. They most likely have earned a degree, and only thing they want from their new school is football. Rex academically is likely going to be a senior next year. People who transfer in their senior year have constraints and priorities that someone who has already graduated doesn’t have. So far we haven’t lost anyone in last two years who didn’t leave here with a degree, There is always a first for everything though.

He oversold expectations by suggesting that 50 points a game was a realistic, and got fired in second season when they only scored 10 against lowly UTEP.
I’d be surprised if he had power 5 offers to give it another try as an OC. He hasn’t proved anything by being a tight end coach. Even 2019 at Davis wasn’t an offensive powerhouse.

if they had had 2022’s offensive production then we would be in the playoffs, probably with a bye.
I’m disappointed in the defense also, not that they weren’t good, but they seemed to have periods of ineffectiveness, like the 3rd quarter against Eastern Washington. We had a set of linebackers that we are unlikely to equal for some time, playing behind the biggest line we ever had.