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  • AOG
    AOG Member Posts: 2,854
    edited January 2024
    Like Alexander, "he came, he conquered, he left." There should be some new clauses in contracts to double the buy out if there is a resulting gutting of the program, metrics TBD. Call it an Alexander the Great clause.
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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,965 Founders Club
    It certainly isn't encouraging but also feels like this is going to be the norm more and more and more. I also think there might be something at play with the current guys haven't gotten to the highest of high they feel like they ever could so it's hard to come back somewhere with lower goals and to be the guys who fell backwards.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,270
    AtomicDawg said:

    HFNY said:

    UW can get guys in the portal too (and lobby some guys to stay such as Brailsford, Kalepo, and Bernard). The roster is going to look different from now through spring ball and then again after the Spring portal season opens.

    I tend to believe they're gone. The good ones could have back channeled all of this without going into the portal and most kids do. They likely already know what amount they could get out in the free market.

    Maybe a few return but I think the offensive line starters and Bernard are gone. Doubt they go into the portal without a plan. Hope I am wrong.
    I have nothing to go off but my thoughts are as follows:

    Brailsford is going to get recruited hard by DeBoer and Huff to go to Alabama and solidify their OL play ... given the state of what UW will be looking at the next 1-2 years it's hard to not view Bama as a better solution plus it's more of a known for him than not

    Kalepo and Buelow are in their last year and probably want a shot at competing at a higher level than playing out the string ... it is what it is. I'm sure that they'll find decent spots to go to but they were clearly the weakest links on the OL.

    Hatchett in surprises me a bit but I also wonder where he would be able to go where he's in a better position than being a starter for a Big 10 roster. I'd expect that he'll be back but who knows.

    Bernard has opportunity here depending on how the roster shakes out. That said, hard to imagine him staying if the QB situation is a dumpster fire. That one could be a coin flip IMO.
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  • jecornel
    jecornel Member Posts: 9,737
    13 pts


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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    The portal giveth, the portal taketh away. If the cupboards are bare, time to go grocery shopping.
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  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,965 Founders Club
    edited January 2024
    jecornel said:

    13 pts


    <<b class="Bold">blockquote class="Quote" rel="RaceBannon">



    I don't know, CJ Stroud is smoking NFL defenses yet he couldn't beat a Michigan defense that outside of Hutchinson two years ago is just like an endless parade of different sizes of Myles Bryant. Harbaugh cheater.
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  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    PurpleJ said:

    The portal giveth, the portal taketh away. If the cupboards are bare, time to go grocery shopping.

    The store is closed for three months.
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  • Neighbor2972
    Neighbor2972 Member Posts: 4,337
    PurpleJ said:

    #PreOrderSzn

    We definitely need to do some tampering to fill in the roster in May
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  • dirtysouwfdawg
    dirtysouwfdawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 14,883 Swaye's Wigwam
    WoolleyDoog said:

    It certainly isn't encouraging but also feels like this is going to be the norm more and more and more. I also think there might be something at play with the current guys haven't gotten to the highest of high they feel like they ever could so it's hard to come back somewhere with lower goals and to be the guys who fell backwards.

    I hope it’s this.

    “Back in my day, the wild Wild West of NIL, you weren’t shit if you didn’t at least put your name in the portal. Having all the coaches lick your ballz and throw money at you, it was great.”

    That’s what all the cool kids did type of thing… but probably not.

    Fuck the kids.
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