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I completely agree...their loss is huge, but on the other hand....if you are going into your junior year--you gotta be starting somewhere if you hope to play in the NFL. (And they all think they can) I have not hit the panic button left, as we have a ton left to see. I do think we have some high upside with Aydin Breland, and Matthew Johnson (who I featured in a Spring Football Analysis) We will also have incoming freshman Tony Cumberland, who is the sixth highest ranked player in the 2026 recruiting class. But let's see if something else doesn't develop... As it is, we will have five DTs for two spots. Not what the coaches want, but it can work and give those guys valuable playing time to prepare for 2027. But I hear you. Grey is going to be great, and I wish he remained here.

Has anyone heard of new DL signings or rumors? It is great to have starters back, but we absolutely cant do it without depth, and losing those 2 really hurts, guys would be exhausted without help.

With the way the transfer portal has altered how players calculate their opportunities, it’s not just those going who see no playing time for themselves, but those now more than willing to go who see a big NIL pay day. Rather than just tumbling the SEC, we may instead be looking at a domino effect that will put us all in the same boat.

Yep, a rising Tide lifted all SEC boats.

Loss of Green and Grey. Heck at first, I thought you meant uniform combos and would disagree. Anyway, never say never as their previous openings will be available next year. Which could lead to new twists to the portal era wherein you go away for more $$$ one year and come back the next for more of the same and a starting role on a really good team.

Not exactly Lanning's "green".

I heard Bowling Green.

WR, TE, and RB groups look insanely good on paper for 2026...

Signing a letter of intent by some highly recruited players seems to have morphed into a staging option to gain NIL leverage in the transfer portal if they fail to see the immediate playing opportunity they expect in the coming year - none and done. Don’t see this emerging reality changing any time soon with congress still arguing over the antitrust issues at the heart of NCAA/university control vs student rights.

I heard Novosad was headed to Louisville. Isn't that in Kentucky? My point was that we assumed AN would be next QB, but not only was he not, the OC didn't think he was the best choice for his new gig! I guess we need to trust DL and his evaluation.

"These are players at who would start for 98 percent of college football, 99-percent," So says "portal expert" Cooper Petagna. It's an interesting read about the near future of the sport.

Not ignoring that or any other non-Alabama run. SEC has had tons of good teams…just saying that Saban inflated it significantly. They wouldn’t have been the best conference (imo)most years if it was just Alabama.

I'm in the metropolis of Mount Pleasant. Where you are sounds much better :)

Yikes! Coach Altman just said Nate Bittle will be out for a month, maybe longer. And Jackson Shelstad is still not available to play. I hate to say this, but looking at the upcoming schedule, I don't see a single win for our Ducks with two of our best players out of the lineup for the foreseeable future.

You can't ignore what Kirby Smart built (back to back champs), and that 2019 LSU team that had just a couple ok NFL players...

The biggest tell that people making the rankings severe cognitive bias issues is Penn State and Indiana. 3rd vs. 20th. Really? Indiana had as good of a regular season record as Penn State and returned every bit as much production outside of QB. And Penn State had the QB that had the most to prove on a production basis not Mendoza. Narratives and cognitive biases are no way to set a baseline for how good your wins are in the next season. At least in the future 16-24 team playoff it will be nearly impossible to leave out an actual contender due to this issue.

Saban, Saban, and Saban. The SEC was the best conference in most years during the Saban dynasty imo. That being said, he propped them up. If Alabama had been struggling as much as USC the last 15 years no one would think that conference was dominant. To me it’s similar to Brady or Belichick debates. Belichick is probably solid without Brady, but Brady made him.

As college football embraces coast-to-coast chaos, it's illuminating to see where former Ducks are landing as they seek new opportunities in free agency run amuck. Over 6,700 Division I players have entered the portal, and more than 8000 from all levels of the sport. In that insane market, former Duck players have wound up in prime locations: Tionne Gray Notre Dame Dakoda Fields Oklahoma Jahlil Florence Missouri Sione Laulea Missouri Daylen Austin Arizona Jayden Limar Washington Jay Harris Kansas State Ashton Porter Houston Kingston Lopa Cal Cooper Perry Cal Kamar Mothudi trips to NC State and Cal Jurrion Dickey Memphis Kade Caton USF Justius Lowe San Diego State Kyler Kasper Brigham Young Makhi Hughes Houston Add: Blake Purchase to Ole Miss, Bryson Beaver to Georgia. It's staggering to think that guys who couldn't start at Oregon, in some cases even make the two-deep, are commanding NIL deals in the tens of thousands and some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars at SEC schools, bluebloods and playoff contenders. Autzen ZooOregon transfers are landing in some eyebrow-raising dest...Edge rusher Blake Purchase joined Al Golden's squad in Oxford. A Duck for a minute, true freshman quarterback Bryson Beaver is trending to Georgia.

True. He could be the exception to DeBoer

Absolutely. Ironic that Nike is known for Basketball shoes vs cleats. But hey, it's not my $$$

Yep, a bunch of Buckeyes are on the NFL early entry list - OBD has Moore returning rather than leaving early - 👍👌😍 On3NFL announces list of 63 underclassmen forgoing eligibili....

Here's my hope (based on no solid information): DL and staff are still talking to Terrance Green and Jericho Johnson and one or both opt out of the portal and return to OBD. I'm hoping that because OBD was in the playoffs until a week ago, they felt like they had to put their name in the portal to keep their options open while getting more information from the staff and others. I'm further hoping that with a little more time to gather information (and understand what NIL $ they may get from OBD as compared to others) and ponder their futures, they confirm that OBD is the best place for them.

Because he is getting paid!

The Nail in the Coffin? Paul Finebaum on why It Just Means More is morphing into It Just Meant More. [Not so Fast! It certainly looks like the B1G won the coaching carousel contest, but many terrific, top-drawer players remain in the still deep SEC. The SEC 'lost' the postseason, but it also 'won' the OOC season.] On3Paul Finebaum gives blunt take on the SEC's struggles in.... Why is this man smiling?