Agreed. Great FBS staffs also now need to be able to recruit their own players. Wonder if he can get any of the kids back that have already gone portaling.

Funny that Texas St is the first to offer Skattebo.

I have a feeling this is just just one of many pieces that are going to fall for Sac. Taylor leaving has set into motion big and most likely very bad changes for Sac.

Regarding Castles.....

Not trying to sound like an a**hole, but bro caught 2 TD's off 30 catches and made close to zero game-changing impact this season (in the way a 6'5" Pac-12 transfer would be expected to)
.....so, how does he end up at Tennessee? Maybe because he started out in the Pac12?

I could see a guy like Gilliam heading out to a program like that....



and I re-read it and I sound like an a-hole.......but my Apple Watch just broke and I'm pissed :D

The Vols are gearing up for next year. Castles will have competition, but it’s a great opportunity for him.
I wish him the best.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/columnists/university-of-tennessee/john-adams/2022/12/12/tennessee-football-will-become-elite-program-through-nil-deals/69680846007/

Sac's 3rd leading WR into the portal now, snowball is starting. I'll bet they'll be at 10 by next week.

They need to get a new HC in place pronto to stop the bleeding and even then it may be too late.

Sounds like they figured that out according to Joe Davidson. I bet we hear about a HC replacement in the next few days.



Joe Davidson

@SacBee_JoeD
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Sacramento State president
@PrezNelsen
spoke to each of these coaches individually today.
Hornets athletic director Mark Orr and these coaches met with Hornets players just now to assure the program is in good hands.
A hire could be announced any time

not sure why he’d want to go to Texas State. They have been crappy the past several years and not exactly a high profile school.

This was the old SW Texas State that the Aggies play in the D2 championship game in 83.

Yes, Wes Preece had more big catches

He won't, that's just his first offer

Is Scattabo a good student?

Vols twitter take / their impression of NFL scout thinking is that he's an elite blocker who can be pretty athletic as a receiver, but was underutilized this year due to our reliance on the run game and sheer amount of pass catchers available for when we did air it out. He did have a few drops that I remember but otherwise I'm inclined to agree.

He goes to Sac State so perhaps he is not.

LOL

Sac's targeting specialist is hitting the portal

Some of these players just keep transferring again and again. I guess that’s one way to travel…

Weber State's QB, Bronson Barron

Eastern Washington WR Freddie Roberson, 2nd Team Big Sky

oh that’s another big one, good catch. Had not seen it yet.

Here’s the starting QB’s I had made a list of:

Muskett, Monmouth (committed Virginia)
RJ Martinez, NAU
Z. Clement, NW st
McCray, Sacred Heart
Seth Morgan, VMI
Jimmy Weirick, Wofford
Tyler Riddell, ETSU
Carlos Davis, Wcu
D. Crenshaw, YSU
Kohen Granier, Nicholls st
Charlie Dean, Harvard
Piece Holley, G town
Beau Allen, Tarleton St

The backup QB at Weber also transferring. They have 3 other QB’s on roster and a couple 3 stars coming in but gonna be really inexperienced at what has traditionally been their relative position of weakness.

Carson Camp (USD) commits to Sac St. good get for the hornets. He lost his job late in the year but was really impressed with him as a QB the times I watched. He was only a Sophomore last year.

Can't find it now, but saw an online article recently about the effect of the transfer portal as well as people declaring for the draft on the college bowl season. One example is Iowa v Kentucky in the Music City bowl. Kentucky's starting QB has declared for the draft. Iowa's starting QB is out due to recent surgery and the back up has entered the portal. Whoever they select Iowa will start a QB who has not compiled a stat all season. Throw in other players on both teams who have declared for the draft, or entered the transfer portal, and two of the most anemic offenses in the FBS...(to say nothing about the fact that they played each other in the Citrus Bowl last year...) I may be the only person west of the Missouri RIver who even watches the game....andeven I may forego watching to do something important like re-arrange my sock drawer.

Anyway, the portal has had an effect on post season games, and the lower the bowl game, the more pronounced the effect.

That train left the station several years ago with players opting out to avoid injury for NFL combines, etc. Of course worse now with portal.

I was listening to Full Ride on XM a week or two ago and they had Dan Mullens on. He had a pretty interesting solution for bowl season. His thought was that we move bowl season to the spring and instead of having a spring game, bowl eligible teams play a bowl game at the end of their spring practice. It would be in late April early may when is the slowest time in the sports world and could attract viewership, get your new team some game action and avoids this issue of guys opting out for the draft etc. I thought it was a pretty interesting option.

Very interesting for sure.

Skattebo is transferring to ASU

Not surprised. I hope he does well there.

I was thinking to myself the other day (I do that a lot anymore) that for teams like this season’s Iowa or Kentucky a non-playoff or low to mid-level bowl game is not so much a postscript to the 2022 season as it is a couple of weeks of pre-pre-season practice and a pre-season game for 2023..

And a spring game has to beat playing outdoors in front of a dozen fans in Fenway Park in December like Cincinnati and Louisville did yesterday. What kind of reward for a winning season was that? It would have been cheaper to fly a plane load of fans from Boston to play in the Bengals’ stadium.

(And having bowl games in the spring would give Harbaugh a legitimate reason to take the team on a spring vacation like he did a few years ago.)

A problem with the spring bowl game idea is that the seniors will have moved on, they are done and don’t take part in spring practice. Now add in the transfer portal, and in the spring you don’t have a lot of the players from the fall team, and you’ve added different ones.