The portal matters, not disputing that. I am not sold on using the transfer portal to fill the majority of scholarships. I hope we don't lose a bunch of players to the portal. We really need a quick turn around, otherwise we will likely be playing 2 money games a year to balance the books. Hopefully we can hang onto most of our key contributors. The changes to roster limits will create more opportunities to add talent through the portal. The question that remains to be answered is if our coaches will be able to identify the FBS transfers who can help us. Best has found a lot of hidden gems from juco ranks the last few years. The jury is out on the transfer portal but I would have expected more resulta based on the number of recruits. UC Davis and Idaho are primarily recruiting high school talent. NAU brought in a lot of transfers last year, it will be interesting to see that continues in year 2 with the new coach. We don't seem to compete with the Montanas very often for recruits anymore.
Wow, someone saying a head coach who is objectively doing a poor job should be replaced. So, "irresponsible". Yea dude we get is you're Best's friend or whatever, tell him to start having winning seasons and this won't happen.
Agreed, quality, not quantity. Although I will say that we've gotten a few gems in the past couple of years like Wortham and Taylor.
Hire him as a DC post haste.
I'm not even sure about that. WSU's stats, while slightly better, look somewhat like EWU's stats. But people who have been at the FBS level can drop down and be pretty successful like Bobby Hauck.
Yes, it was. At the very least, his defensive high points were far better than anything we've seen in a long while.
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When we went on the 2018 Championship run it was ranked in the 60s in the FCS. Which isn't great but compared to now its twice as good.
We're probably going to get the Jared Taylor triple-option-esque offense the whole time next year. We're so cooked.
What's weird is Eastern made a habit of putting bigger and taller receivers on the field for a very long time. We had a lot of success with that formula. Our starting receivers by the end of the season were all below 6'. That said, you could tell by that point in the season we were gonna hang our hat on running the ball. I really don't care whether our offense is run-heavy or pass-heavy, and in many ways, being run-heavy has more advantages.
I'm fine with smaller speedsters. Yall forget Nsimba Webster. Wortham is decent lined up at receiver. Limo-Jones was sooo slow, only advantage he had was being so tall.