Who was the biggest portal miss since NIL began at Mississippi State?...
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The white kid from Kentucky who was supposed to be the answer to our three point shooting woes. I'm not sure if he ever suited up before leaving school.
Andrew Taylor. That's another good one but he didn't contribute enough to matter to me. Along with Kanye Clary.
I'm trying to think of any football misses.
The amount of money we paid Krome to hold a clipboard was a bold move.
1. Ballard
2. Kugel
3. Taylor
We all knew that Clary had quit or was kicked off the team at Penn State the previous year. Kugel & Taylor are both mysteries.
I had high hopes for Makylan Pounders to be a solid left tackle after transferring from Memphis. He started for a pretty good Memphis team. He only stayed one year here and wasn't great, then transferred out
We haven’t truly hit on a basketball transfer to date. Melendez was probably the best so far.
Basically all the offense and defensive linemen we’ve brought in have been misses.
Basically all the offense and defensive linemen we’ve brought in have been misses.
This was the first one that came to my mind. He was highly rated out of the portal from what I remember. He was not a good player for us.
For football, I remember Isaiah Zuber having a lot of hype coming from KState before collecting a whopping 213 yards receiving under a Joe Moorhead coached offense.
We must have spent more in backup QBs than any school in the country. Too bad we didn’t spend much in starters.
Dollar for dollar I dont see how anyone is even in the same hemisphere as Ballard
This is one of those threads that makes me wonder what the 17 we’re doing.
Kugel was boneheaded but him and Melendez flashed some skill when they were on that season. The entire 25 transfer class was worse except for Epps.
Zuber was at least talented. He hung around practice teams in the NFL for a few years. That one is all on SloMo.
You look at the guy and he looked like he could be the best post player we have had since Varnardo. Then proceeds to get on the court and get blocked out by small guards.
Who was the Indiana State pitcher last year with the glasses? I heard we paid him a ton and I don't even remember his name.
Amier Ali has to be near the top. Ballard got paid and sucked. Ali got paid and sucked so bad he couldn't even get on the floor for a terrible team.
Under Jans watch, Tyler Stevenson, Eric Reed, Jamel Horton, Jaquan Scott, Foumena, Achor, Walker, Ali, Ballard, Clary, Euro, Fort, Taylor
The only portal pickups that we got any production (and it was limited) from in the Jans era were Bell, Deshawn Davis, Harris, Melendez, and Kugel
The only portal pickups that we got any production (and it was limited) from in the Jans era were Bell, Deshawn Davis, Harris, Melendez, and Kugel
Scott and fort were juco guys so not portal. Reed and Stevenson were 2 guys who played big minutes on a tournament team and Jans had 0 funding that class (thanks Cohen)
Not sure if this technically counts as a “portal miss” or just a transfer miss, but its hard to imagine any bigger bust than KJ Costello.
His last fully healthy season at Stanford, he put up basically the same numbers as Justin Herbert did at Oregon right before getting drafted in the Top 5….against the same competition. Then he comes here, under a very proven passing HC/OC, lights the world on fire in Baton Rouge, then completely forgot how to play football for the rest of his career.
His last fully healthy season at Stanford, he put up basically the same numbers as Justin Herbert did at Oregon right before getting drafted in the Top 5….against the same competition. Then he comes here, under a very proven passing HC/OC, lights the world on fire in Baton Rouge, then completely forgot how to play football for the rest of his career.
I don’t know if it’s a concerning sign of memory degeneration, or a lack of caring. I don’t know who most of the names in this thread are.
I think he re-injured that shoulder in about the 2nd or 3rd game of the season and was playing hurt all year.
I had high hopes for Scott Lashley from AL when he transferred here. He wasn't as bad as Javen James that just left us for AL (scratching my head wondering why they wanted him) but Lashley just never seemed to progress any
First, again, that was pre-NIL. Also, he at least started all year. Third, he rode the bench for 4 years at Bama so you had no reason to have high hopes.
I'd say he's far from a portal miss, considering what was expected of him.
Of course, he actually had competent coaching.
The really aggravating part was that for few minutes every few games he would look like what we paid for and then disappear for several games, or weeks, again.
An injured shoulder is not an excuse to throw passes directly to blitzing linebackers that are 5 yards in front of him and not even in coverage.
He had a complete mental breakdown…..Mark Wohlers / Rick Ankiel style.