re: Portal Extravaganza: Round 2! I’ve been twittered. The search for scout team QB continues.

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That sounds miserable. Good luck on the bike.

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I was hoping for the best for him

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Yep, up until now I was still wishing him a long and successful NFL carrier.

But now I'm thinking getting canned by three more teams and never shaking the scout team would be way too good.







Before complete and utter obscurity.

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I was hoping for the best for him but he’s going out whiny at best. Hope we skull drag them.

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That popped up and I watched it yesterday right when it came out. Wasn't impressed. What he said at the end I hope he has to eat.

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It's crazy people still aren't getting this and think we should be able to just stack multiple SEC starting caliber transfer QBs.

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South Carolina just signed Air Noland with a returning redshirt freshman starter. Baylor just signed White with a returning starter. There are multiple other examples of teams doing this. It is what it is though. We have our QB room filled now.

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South Carolina just signed Air Noland with a returning redshirt freshman starter. Baylor just signed White with a returning starter.

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No one knows if these guys are even any good... they MAY suck. This is all based on potential.

Arnold may suck arse too. We dont know.

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Baylor just signed White with a returning starter.

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I get your overall point, buy trying to use this as an example doesn’t help your cause

Dude left because we were doing what you have been claiming we need to do, and stack as much talent as we can.

As to Noland, I won’t be surprised when he transfers somewhere next year after getting a payday for this season. We’ll see though.

Playoffs incoming

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South Carolina just signed Air Noland with a returning redshirt freshman starter. Baylor just signed White with a returning starter. There are multiple other examples of teams doing this. It is what it is though. We have our QB room filled now.

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Your logic is all over the place.

Noland and White signed with schools wherein the pretense is that they will step in as the "heir apparent" (ie: next in line) starter. Sawyer Robertson at Baylor is a Redshirt Junior with only one season left. Their backup this season (Dequan Finn) transferred out, leaving them with only a low 3-star Freshman in the room from the same class as White (Nate Bennett) and a low 3-star true Freshman that they just signed for the 2025 class. This means that Walker White is expecting to immediately step in as their #2 QB, which would put him in line to be the starter in 2026.

Its pretty much the same story for Noland at South Carolina. Their backup (Ashford) left and the #3 QB (Davis Beville) is out of eligibility. All they have left behind Sellers is a low 3-star redshirt Freshman (Dante Reno). This means that Noland is expecting to immediately step in as the #2 QB, and while Sellers is only a redshirt Sophomore, he is actually Draft eligible after this season. Given how he progressed this season, it isn't out of the question for him to leave after this upcoming season if he lives up to the hype. This would potentially open up the starting role for Noland in 2026.

Again, both of these guys transferred to schools wherein from a recruiting "talent standpoint" they have little to no competition and a clear path for starting time in the near future. They are competing with low 3-star talents.

Walker White left because he couldn't unseat 3-star Hank Brown on the depth chart, and we brought in a QB behind him who is even more talented than he is (Deuce Knight). Given the fact that Arnold has two years of eligibility remaining and White clearly didn't impress the staff this year, the likelihood of him ever starting here was LOW. Hence why he left. This isn't hard to understand. You keep rambling about these idiotic "QB battles" as if coaching staffs go into each season with no idea who their starting QB is going to be and expect 4 guys to "battle it out". In reality, the pathway is almost always very clear. At Auburn the path is as such: Arnold is going to start, and Deuce Knight is expected to follow. If Deuce Knight shows up and looks like shite, you best believe that they'll start planning alternate pathways behind the scenes.

Now, back to your insistence on bringing in a QB to "battle with Arnold": Arnold is a talented SEC starter. The only QB who is going to "challenge him" is going to be an actual starter from another team. Can you see the problem here? Some other team's proven starter isn't transferring to a team where he is "competing for the job". Its not happening when they can get paid to walk in as the #1 guy elsewhere. Air Noland and Walker White are NOT "challenging" Arnold for the starting job. The fact that you keep subtly suggesting this is absurd. These two were ~#4/#5 on the depth chart as true Freshmen at their previous schools. Jackson Arnold was Dillon Gabriel's backup as a true Freshman and instantly became their starter once Gabriel left. He started their Bowl game in 2023. Walker White couldn't even operate our offense against a cupcake opponent in his true Freshman season here. He couldn't even unseat Hank Brown and was behind Geriner. Apply your own damn logic: White was nowhere ready to challenge even Payton Thorne who you think is horrible, so what business does he have "competing" against Arnold lol? The same thing was the case for Noland at OSU: he was basically dead last on their depth chart and made zero movement. Hence why he left. A guy who left OSU because he was #4/#5 on the depth chart is not challenging Jackson Arnold for shite.