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Gotta hand it to Willy Boy, he’s dang sure average and beats who he should

ETA: Losoya not too bad at Vandy, fat Percy not great but ‘ok’ at Auburn. Still a starter. So glad we sent those guys packing

and hey, Woody Marks

Maybe Leach did recroot well eh?
 

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If you don't see that Toledo made our game their game of the century...

They really arrived, until they lost to WKU...

But they got that SEC win baby
 
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Gotta hand it to Willy Boy, he’s dang sure average and beats who he should

ETA: Losoya not too bad at Vandy, fat Percy not great but ‘ok’ at Auburn. Still a starter. So glad we sent those guys packing

and hey, Woody Marks

Maybe Leach did recroot well eh?
Unfathomable we sent percy and lasoya packing and signed these turnstiles of an O line out of the portal. Our cb play is bad and we sent collins to penn state and
Nicholson to usc. Both would be starting here.
 

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Unfathomable we sent percy and lasoya packing and signed these turnstiles of an O line out of the portal. Our cb play is bad and we sent collins to penn state and
Nicholson to usc. Both would be starting here.
I mean, did we really send them packing?

Outside of Lasoya, its hard to see how we could have competed with the destination schools for any of the other 3. Same with Will and Woody, and of course Zavion.
 

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Gotta hand it to Willy Boy, he’s dang sure average and beats who he should

ETA: Losoya not too bad at Vandy, fat Percy not great but ‘ok’ at Auburn. Still a starter. So glad we sent those guys packing

and hey, Woody Marks

Maybe Leach did recroot well eh?
Now do defense.
 

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I mean, did we really send them packing?

Outside of Lasoya, its hard to see how we could have competed with the destination schools for any of the other 3. Same with Will and Woody, and of course Zavion.
you could say we could not afford to pay Percy, that may be true. But I think he’d be worth three of what they brought in. the point is you had quality starters on your roster then you replace them with g5 rejects and busts. And at the same time you malign your predecessors for lack of talent.
 
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Unfathomable we sent percy and lasoya packing and signed these turnstiles of an O line out of the portal. Our cb play is bad and we sent collins to penn state and
Nicholson to usc. Both would be starting here.
Yeah if we added Collins’ ‘checks stats’ ONE solo tackle to our D we’d be the 85 Bears
 
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Yeah if we added Collins’ ‘checks stats’ ONE solo tackle to our D we’d be the 85 Bears
Collins is better than any cb we have. So is Nicholson. but with the talent evaluators we have, you aren’t going to replace them with as good of player.

both of them are playing for top 10-11 teams
 

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You mean 3 portal classes ago ? Arkansas did a rebuild in one season With the portal. Did you see them play Auburn ? Kind of better compared to last year aren’t they ?
People forget Pittman wasn't that bad with good coordinators. He went out and got a good one on offense. Snd rebuilt the offense. He's been there a while so not rebuilding the full team and not learning on the job.
 
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Unfathomable we sent percy and lasoya packing and signed these turnstiles of an O line out of the portal. Our cb play is bad and we sent collins to penn state and
Nicholson to usc. Both would be starting here.
Not arguing at all because I truly do not know, but did Lebby tell them to move on or did they leave on their own?
 

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People forget Pittman wasn't that bad with good coordinators. He went out and got a good one on offense. Snd rebuilt the offense. He's been there a while so not rebuilding the full team and not learning on the job.
Defense got DE 2 LB 3 DBs. 4 of them start.
offense got qb bsu rb from utah 3 good starters on o line another rb and receiver from a and m.

new system on offense new OC

they are a borderline top25 team after one portal rebuild

what have we added in fhe last two portal classes ?
 
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Defense got DE 2 LB 3 DBs. 4 of them start.
offense got qb bsu rb from utah 3 good starters on o line another rb and receiver from a and m.

new system on offense new OC

they are a borderline top25 team after one portal rebuild

what have we added in fhe last two portal classes ?
Not much good. Apparently our nil is better than Arkansas according to another thread. So what's our problem? Coaching turnover and coaches not putting proper attention?
 
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Not much good. Apparently our nil is better than Arkansas according to another thread. So what's our problem? Coaching turnover and coaches not putting proper attention?
Yea its magic. Arkansas can go from horrible to good sec team in one portal class but we are 1-11 because of Dave Emerick. The BS is getting deep
 
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Percy didn't bolt until we signed the magnificent first day starter Pounders. We replaced Percy with Pounders. Everybody on this board said that was a no brainer even tho he (Percy) had great stats last year. I'm good with persuading guys to move on if you can upgrade. We upgraded at QB and WR and I ain't seen any others. DL, RB, OL, LB we added have not been improvements. Honestly you don't have to be very smart to look at some of those guys and know they can't excel in the SEC. Low tier B10 backups won't cut it. Juco guys ? Probly not either
 
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Yea its magic. Arkansas can go from horrible to good sec team in one portal class but we are 1-11 because of Dave Emerick. The BS is getting deep
Dave Emerick? USC got a pretty good class and improved defense there. He had the same position there as he did here.
 

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Dave Emerick? USC got a pretty good class and improved defense there. He had the same position there as he did here.
Im quoting emerick because the excuse makers and PR people claim thats why we are bad because Dave was no good. Im being sarcastic. Its like going back three portal classes to blame fhe guy who died when our last two hires have added nothing in two portal classes. Its a joke
 

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Percy didn't bolt until we signed the magnificent first day starter Pounders. We replaced Percy with Pounders. Everybody on this board said that was a no brainer even tho he (Percy) had great stats last year. I'm good with persuading guys to move on if you can upgrade. We upgraded at QB and WR and I ain't seen any others. DL, RB, OL, LB we added have not been improvements. Honestly you don't have to be very smart to look at some of those guys and know they can't excel in the SEC. Low tier B10 backups won't cut it. Juco guys ? Probly not either
Percy didn't want to compete and wanted a raise. He hasn't been great at AU either