Portal Watch 2022-23

jojatk

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Unless he drops to FCS, he will have to sit out a year unless he gets a waiver from the NCAA. I can understand his position since by playing time he was 4th on the list. For someone so highly recruited, it has to be very frustrating.
I believe he will be a grad transfer so he would not have to drop to FCS to be immediately eligible.
 

slugboy

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Unless he drops to FCS, he will have to sit out a year unless he gets a waiver from the NCAA. I can understand his position since by playing time he was 4th on the list. For someone so highly recruited, it has to be very frustrating.
The coaching change from Collins to Key is a free transfer for any of our players, including Taisun. He won’t have to sit out a year.

He looked to be behind Pyron and Gibson on the depth chart. As far as I could see, he moved well and his Achille’s tendon didn’t seem like a problem. I don’t know what we’d do with him next year, but this past season it looked like we used Taisun as a wildcat QB.

I’ve seen a few assumptions made on why players are transferring, or for some of the churn in our HS recruits. With the portal, a small number of players entering the portal are probably known commodities moving up, but we could say that’s somewhere in the range of 5-15%. Examples would include the players that we lost last year that went on to start at Bama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss (Gibbs, Domineck, and Ivey). Most of our transfers transferred “down”. Maybe you get to 40-50% of the portal if you add in players who mostly go in of their own initiative who are looking for other places. Then the rest are players who are strongly encouraged by their teams to look elsewhere to play.

I don’t think Taisun is in the same category with Gibbs, Ivey, and Domineck. Last year, our transfers out had some trade up to higher ranked teams, some moved pretty much laterally, most moved “down”, and a lot didn’t find FBS homes.
 
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roadkill

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The coaching change from Collins to Key is a free transfer for any of our players, including Taisun. He won’t have to sit out a year.
@slugboy

That is not the case, this season. Graduate Transfers: yes. Recruits coming in: yes. Players on the team who have used the Portal previously: no!
They are subject to the previous transfer rules from back in 2020.
 

PVdad

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Given that there is absolutely no guarantee that Pyron will be ready to play in the fall, much less in the spring, I'm surprised that Phommachanh is thinking about the portal. There's nothing to say that he couldn't beat out Gibson and, if he started in the fall, Pyron might never see the field. But perhaps he has been hearing - indirectly, of course - that a spot will be opening for him elsewhere. I'm sure someone will take a flier on his talent alone.

Well, again, good luck, Taisun! Thanks for your efforts for Tech. I enjoyed watching you play.
Why wouldn’t have be available in the spring or even next fall?
 
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