re: 2024-2025 Playoff team Transfer portal tracker(ND/OSU Transfer Window opens 1/20

Don’t you think Alabama is doing the exact same thing? You have too or you won’t compete.

The player is worth what someone is willing to pay.

Those teams are looking for the best players wherever they can find them, just like us.

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CFB is ridiculous at this point so Jackson Arnold getting $2.5 million isn't something I'd put outside the realm of possibility.

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So Auburn went to the portal and got a QB that can’t pass and they’re paying him 2.5 mil? Lol, that’s so Auburn.
We know why? He’s an available QB that “beat Bama”. It’s why they hired Hugh Freeze.

I'm not dismissive of Jackson Arnold and not because he ran the triple option against us for 10 points with our own quarterback scoring the other 14 for him.

I don't think he got a fair shake: they didn't expect him to play this year but Gabriel got bought by Oregon and he was rushed onto the field probably a year ahead of schedule. Then their entire WR corp died in a rash on injuries similar to linebacker on our 2019 team. They also were playing walk-ons at tailback.

He's looked decent at times but a lot of being good at quarterback depends on the other 10 guys and that was a big problem for him. Our game was a classic case of a team looking ahead because they saw an opponent with an entire offense on the injury report but forgot that they still have guys on scholarship at a blueblood program. In fact, if our offense came in looking like they'd even prepared for what OU was doing then whatever Jackson Arnold and OU was doing would not have been enough.

Again, I don't think anyone should make too much out of what happened v. Alabama nor condemn Jackson Arnold because he played poorly much of this season. I could see him being a good quarterback in an offense like Freeze's to be honest. Especially since they do not lack for skill at WR.

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So you think a college that is struggling to pull in enough NIL and struggling to even be relevant, can afford to pay players more then their worth, just to “create a narrative”? Ok, that makes sense.

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Do you know anything about Jimmy Rane?

Brian Kelly just publicly donated millions of his own dollars to NIL and was in Tuscaloosa personally recruiting a player.

So yes, both of those schools have boosters who would spend money to create a positive narrative with their program relative to Bama.

And neither of those schools are struggling with NIL based on recruiting and transfer portal results.

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Y'all see where Jojo Earle is transferring to UNLV?

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He would do well under Dan Mullins though.

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Again, I don't think anyone should make too much out of what happened v. Alabama nor condemn Jackson Arnold because he played poorly much of this season. I could see him being a good quarterback in an offense like Freeze's to be honest. Especially since they do not lack for skill at WR.

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Maybe so but it doesn’t seem OU valued him that much. They let him walk away while actively pursuing and paying $$$$ for a QB in the portal.

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Maybe so but it doesn’t seem OU valued him that much. They let him walk away while actively pursuing and paying $$$$ for a QB in the portal.

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Don't see any way Arnold can be worse than Thorne, but I guess we'll see.

Obviously bigger sample size with Thorne, but he seemed like a much more polished passer. He could make plays but would turn it over too much

Arnold not really done much of anything to say he is a competent passer. Besides the beyond dumb Alabama defensive scheme to allow them to run all over them, Arnold didn't do much with his arm