Johntay Cook in the portal

[PAcuse]

Russell and Merriweather.
Bring in a good 1 or 2 WR from the portal.
We have some great young kids here already.
Gill and Cook are good players but not irreplaceable.
Cook had some real frustrating drops last year.

 

[JeremyCuse]

We've had nice things (Cook, Gill). Now we're going to have newly minted Freshman WR starters cast in Fran's image. They will do well or better than the portaled WRs.
How do I know this?
I don't, but I'm sure it will happen.

Gonna have a Juco Wr and 1 if not portal guys as well. Fran knows the score. Now will they be as good, time will tell.

 

[upperdeck]

Cook had more drops than good catches though.

 

[JarHeadJim]

 

[OrangeCrush22]

Disloyal. Fran gave him the chance to turn around his career.

Fran wasted a year of his eligibility let’s be real. We couldn’t even get him the ball

 

[Sdot]

this one hurts we’re basically getting a whole new offensive team, outside of maybe 2-3 o linemen and qb. I still find I weird the person who caught the most flack (Rickie) might stay but everyone else is gonna leave?

 

[SURules]

this one hurts we’re basically getting a whole new offensive team, outside of maybe 2-3 o linemen and qb. I still find I weird the person who caught the most flack (Rickie) might stay but everyone else is gonna leave?

Maybe Rickie has no where to go and knows it?

 

[Cuse4Life]

Fran bails this kid out of purgatory where no other coach would go near him, and then once he has a decent season, he bounces. Just shows what kind of person he truly is

 

[Ttk.gman2]

Fran bails this kid out of purgatory where no other coach would go near him, and then once he has a decent season, he bounces. Just shows what kind of person he truly is

 

[Sdot]

Maybe Rickie has no where to go and knows it?

Maybe true but any serious program if this season happened would clear out most of the roster that they didn’t see in future plans. I think Fran loyalty to an extent is still to much. I also want good people and then good players but I think some of these guys know they also have more strict rules here then at other schools, wonder if some of them aren’t as invested in that plan.

 

[Jdono927]

Fran bails this kid out of purgatory where no other coach would go near him, and then once he has a decent season, he bounces. Just shows what kind of person he truly is

He took other P4 visits in the spring portal window, Fran no doubt took a chance on him but it’s not like other schools weren’t willing to do the same. We don’t have to lie to get the point across

 

[JeffCuse]

JFC I'm so sick of this sport. I'm going to keep my ticket and come to tailgates to see friends and enjoy campus but I am done caring about this sport. It's background noise for me now.

 

[PAcuse]

Fran wasted a year of his eligibility let’s be real. We couldn’t even get him the ball

Maybe if he caught more he would have better stats, two way street

 

[anomander]

Amare Gough has similar traits to Cook.

He could, or he may never see the field.Thats the thing with unproven players vs proven upperclassmen. Can’t win with freshman and sophomores. Not a chance .

 

[Hawknate144]

Fran wasted a year of his eligibility let’s be real. We couldn’t even get him the ball

You mean the year he put up by far the best stats of his career?

 

[sufan59]

 

[nocohalo]

Again, I said it about Gill, this is how the shine wears off really quick on Fran. The point of hiring coaches like him is that they supposedly retain this kind of talent. "We have the JUCO transfer and Russell!" Russell, ok I understand that, he's a 5 star, but he's still a frosh, the JUCO transfer I don't think ever saw a single snap in 2 years at Boise State.

 

[BeetleCuse]

He took other P4 visits in the spring portal window, Fran no doubt took a chance on him but it’s not like other schools weren’t willing to do the same. We don’t have to lie to get the point across

I really think the idea you owe people a debt for giving you a chance is an outdated concept. In theory it’s just and makes sense in a perfect world. However, that’s not the nature of college football with NIL and the transfer portal. How many people keep the same job for long these days? We’re all given chances in life, but you must take the better opportunity if you think one exists.

 

[DocFlanders]

Just hoping our portal-in plans are rock solid…because otherwise

 

[anomander]

Let’s just be honest. Our only position of strength outside of CB has been totally decimated. Sure there is potential of hope, but we have no idea how the incoming guys will perform and almost certainly won’t match that of guys who have proven themselves. We knew we would be losing some, but not the entire lot. Would have been fine if they kept Cook or Gill, and maybe Ross or Hornsby, but this is just another example of how it’s impossible to depend on player development and how hard it will be to win at a consistent level (Not like they’ve been doing that, but will only get harder).

 

[Sdot]

I’ve kept my opinion about this one quiet and I want to reiterate I LIKE Fran. But you can’t build 20-30 high school classes having a young team. And then on top lose your better upper classmen. Which now creates a young team year in and out and basically feeding schools your best players and trying to build up all young players. You won’t compete much and you definitely won’t compete for conference championships or playoffs. I understand Fran’s thought process but it’s hard to hit highschool classes that hard when most will leave anyways wether that is because they got poached or wanted to play right away or were not up to par with p4 standards.

 

[djorange1989]

Gotta bring in at least one WR with proven FBS level production.

 

[dasher]

Again, I said it about Gill, this is how the shine wears off really quick on Fran. The point of hiring coaches like him is that they supposedly retain this kind of talent. "We have the JUCO transfer and Russell!" Russell, ok I understand that, he's a 5 star, but he's still a frosh, the JUCO transfer I don't think ever saw a single snap in 2 years at Boise State.

We just had the best recruiting year that we have had in over 30 years. Now, I get that your point is that the shine will wear off with those kids but that is the business we have chosen. We will get real good kids in the portal. Good kids leave other schools as well. And if you think that there is some guru out there that it doesn't happen to, good luck with that. This is how many schools for Cook? Oh, and of the kids that hurt us to lose, a couple of them, only kids that hurts to lose, were told to leave.

 

[JeffCuse]

Gotta bring in at least one WR with proven FBS level production.

Try 3.

 

[Ttk.gman2]

Let’s just be honest. Our only position of strength outside of CB has been totally decimated. Sure there is potential of hope, but we have no idea how the incoming guys will perform and almost certainly won’t match that of guys who have proven themselves. We knew we would be losing some, but not the entire lot. Would have been fine if they kept Cook or Gill, and maybe Ross or Hornsby, but this is just another example of how it’s impossible to depend on player development and how hard it will be to win at a consistent level (Not like they’ve been doing that, but will only get harder).

We need a portal class like Fran had his first year and then some need 2 WRs need a new OL also new DL 3 safeties, and 2 QBs and last 2 RBs.