2023-2024 Portal Thread

Participating and practicing for a mid tier bowl game, doing post practice interviews, on campus autograph signings, and spending Dec showing up at a bunch of other campus teams events would be really odd if a guy was planning on going elsewhere. Just look at the guys on playoff teams that are skipping a chance at a NC to hit the portal and visit and review their options as soon as possible.
 
I think he’s gone.
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Although that’s possible, but why would he be participating in bowl prep? He could very easily sit out of the bowl game/practice to prevent injuries. He has nothing more to prove other than wanting to compete with his team. Regardless, this is a joke that we have to wait for announcements every offseason. College football will never be the same. Just a sad reality.
Thank you Poke, you brought some LOGIC here! I also fail to understand if he was going to leave why he would be practicing and playing in a bowl game risking something like an injury! 🙄
 
But by announcing he’s staying he would help OSU recruiting especially in regards to a Portal QB. The sooner he announce one way or the other the better.


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I didn't know we were looking for a quarterback. If Bowman comes back, and I think he will, then we will have four quarterbacks in the room.
 
I didn't know we were looking for a quarterback. If Bowman comes back, and I think he will, then we will have four quarterbacks in the room.

They better be. No guarantees on Bowman and the NCAA is known to drag their feet on these issues. Either Flores/Rangel is the man or they need to be recruiting


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They better be. No guarantees on Bowman and the NCAA is known to drag their feet on these issues. Either Flores/Rangel is the man or they need to be recruiting


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What makes you think they aren't re-recruiting them. Gundy has even talked about recruiting the guys already on the team.
 
Whether or not Ollie stays, we better be bringing in a couple of good RB’s. Our depth at the moment is non-existent.
Wouldn’t say non existent. Sesi looked pretty solid in is brief action in the B12 championship. I’m intrigued to see what he can do. We’ve got Rodney Fields coming in as a freshman, and RB is typically a place if you’re talented enough you can see action right away. If Ollie stays, it’s going to be difficult to bring in a quality portal guy. Probably just going to have to bring in a body from some lower tier school like a George Fox…😉

I don’t think he will, but if Ollie were to leave, I think you’d have a lot of interested quality portal guys and you’d have money to offer. Having last years Doak Walker winner, leading rusher, and Oline coming back would be a pretty easy sell.
 
Wouldn’t say non existent. Sesi looked pretty solid in is brief action in the B12 championship. I’m intrigued to see what he can do. We’ve got Rodney Fields coming in as a freshman, and RB is typically a place if you’re talented enough you can see action right away. If Ollie stays, it’s going to be difficult to bring in a quality portal guy. Probably just going to have to bring in a body from some lower tier school like a George Fox…😉

I don’t think he will, but if Ollie were to leave, I think you’d have a lot of interested quality portal guys and you’d have money to offer. Having last years Doak Walker winner, leading rusher, and Oline coming back would be a pretty easy sell.
I also thought Sesi looked good in his limited touches. If everything remains constant and no one leaves we could maybe use one more RB out of the portal.

The portal for a school like ours is more a wait a see who is left proposition. Our NIL package won't out shine the blue bloods or richer schools but, there will be plenty of more than decent players left in the portal after they are done throwing money at the top players.
 
Wouldn’t say non existent. Sesi looked pretty solid in is brief action in the B12 championship. I’m intrigued to see what he can do. We’ve got Rodney Fields coming in as a freshman, and RB is typically a place if you’re talented enough you can see action right away. If Ollie stays, it’s going to be difficult to bring in a quality portal guy. Probably just going to have to bring in a body from some lower tier school like a George Fox…😉

I don’t think he will, but if Ollie were to leave, I think you’d have a lot of interested quality portal guys and you’d have money to offer. Having last years Doak Walker winner, leading rusher, and Oline coming back would be a pretty easy sell.
Fields hasn’t signed yet, and he’s on the smallish side. Agree Sesi looked ok, but that’s still not much proven depth.
 
Because @Newpoke is an OSU fan and has been trained to believe nothing good ever happens for us. He and @Stargazer have nothing else to base their pessimism on. Full transparency, I fully understand their position, perhaps even agree with their belief system. I just think this is one time they are going to be wrong and both will be ecstatic about how wrong they are. :ROFLMAO:
 
Because @Newpoke is an OSU fan and has been trained to believe nothing good ever happens for us. He and @Stargazer have nothing else to base their pessimism on. Full transparency, I fully understand their position, perhaps even agree with their belief system. I just think this is one time they are going to be wrong and both will be ecstatic about how wrong they are. :ROFLMAO:
Hey, I hope I’m wrong. It just seemed odd that he wouldn’t answer. But who knows🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Not a big Jim Traber guy. But today on the sports animal, he said that Ollie is staying. Unless something crazy happens. And has it on good authority. I don’t think he would say it if he didn’t have a pretty solid reason.


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Not a big Jim Traber guy. But today on the sports animal, he said that Ollie is staying. Unless something crazy happens. And has it on good authority. I don’t think he would say it if he didn’t have a pretty solid reason.


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Heard that as well. He went on to say he’s heard Daniels and Oliver will stay as well and supposedly the defensive scheme will be changing a bit. I’m a little skeptical about the scheme changing but who knows. Good coaches study their weakness, how teams attacked them and find answers. Time will tell!
 
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