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What Do You Think About Our Portal Additions?
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:11 pm
It seems like our staff is taking their time to evaluate, rather than freaking the frick out like all the fans, and rushing to give some prima donna $3-5 million.
If our staff has one strong suit it's evaluations. In my opinion our current staff evaluates better than the Saban staff in their last several years.
But I haven't been following too closely. Have we gotten some guys that can start on the LOS?
Do you think we're doing well with portal additions, or did they drop the ball like many said early on?
If our staff has one strong suit it's evaluations. In my opinion our current staff evaluates better than the Saban staff in their last several years.
But I haven't been following too closely. Have we gotten some guys that can start on the LOS?
Do you think we're doing well with portal additions, or did they drop the ball like many said early on?
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Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:18 pm to UAClassOf22
Can't be any worse
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:21 pm to UAClassOf22
Upgraded at:
Punter
Kicker
OL
DL
LB
Held steady:
TE
WR
Lost:
RB
DB
Variable is that Bama brought in what's regarded as the #3 recruiting class with some absolute studs at WR, RB, DB, and LB.
Summary, Bama will be fine provided that coaching staff coaches up the youth and molds the portal additions with the returners to play as a "team" similar to how Indiana did.
Punter
Kicker
OL
DL
LB
Held steady:
TE
WR
Lost:
RB
DB
Variable is that Bama brought in what's regarded as the #3 recruiting class with some absolute studs at WR, RB, DB, and LB.
Summary, Bama will be fine provided that coaching staff coaches up the youth and molds the portal additions with the returners to play as a "team" similar to how Indiana did.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:28 pm to UAClassOf22
B+
Could be an A if we add another starting caliber player.
Could be an A if we add another starting caliber player.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:31 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
A contributing RB would send this class to the next level.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:46 pm to bamarep
The staff did a good job plugging most of the holes and hopefully we upgraded at OL and DL but the thing is, we don’t know and we won’t really know until September. Some of you need to take a deep breath and slow down. Last year’s OL was lauded as a Joe Moore award candidate and we saw how that worked out. The portal is no different from regular recruiting; we probably got some dudes and we probably got some busts. Let’s just hope there’s more dudes than busts and we can improve on some things this fall. On the surface, they did a good job and we’ll see how good of a job they did against East Carolina.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:48 pm to UAClassOf22
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Do you think we're doing well with portal additions, or did they drop the ball like many said early on?
On3 still considers this transfer haul a net negative. A lot of those losses were edge rushers though which we had too many of for the system we’re running currently. Arguably the d linemen we added are a better fit for the system despite being lower rated players in many cases.
247 has us ranked 4th nationally in the combined high school/transfer rankings, but that doesn’t account for the players we lost.
I’d say the portal additions are probably a C. There’s some solid pieces but no one to really get excited about, so I’d say it’s an average haul. Net of the guys we lost, it’s probably more like a D.
However, our high school haul is an A, so the question is was this year just a one off with a bunch of national title competitors built through the portal?
Until this year, there were good portal teams, but the national championship teams were built through high school with just some portal guys filling gaps.
Our portal additions are good enough to fill some gaps, but this year, the final four teams were largely built out of the portal. Our group certainly isn’t that.
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 11:05 pm to UAClassOf22
With our budget it’s a solid job IMO.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 11:21 pm to UAClassOf22
I think we really need another experienced OL. Even if it's another small school guy. Whatever configuration we throw out there is going to have a total of like 2500 snaps under their belt and half of them belong to a guy moving up from FCS. There's going to be a lot of growing pains. Maybe too many.
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