Johntay Cook in the portal

[OttoinGrotto]

That’s my hope. The WR room needed to shed some bodies. Just not all of them.

Hornsby and Gill hopefully are return candidates.

I suspect bridges are burned with some others.

 

[Sdot]

I wish the guys that hurt would have stayed. But I am not all that worked up about it. Really, they weren't that good. We can get guys wither from our frosh or from the portal to make up for it. After the year we all went through it is easy to be gloom and doom about anything and everything. But we can get a running back to do what Willis did. And we can get wr's to do what Gill and Cook did. We now have their money to spend.

To me it’s not about the individual players that leave this off season as it is turnover size, losing this many starters and expecting to build it back for 2026 that was supposed to be our year with a favorable schedule isn’t as good as it looked 6 months ago with a lot of our key starters we needed to try and get back gone.

 

[MadNY3]

People can keep making excuses and keep calling me a hater but this isn’t good even in the modern era. Losing athletes like this, just aren’t easily replaceable at Syracuse.I don’t care how rosie your scenario is.

I do agree, surprised this kid didn’t go in portal a month ago. Probably not a bad one year rental though

One, I hope my wife loves me half as much as you hate Fran Brown

Two, I’m totally reserving judgment til post portal. This due kicked his best friend out and was going after a DC of a top five D during the season.

Three, I’ll take five Gill’s over a Cook. Kid has a ton of talent, but didn’t seem to care about the playbook or be consistent.

 

[dasher]

To me it’s not about the individual players that leave this off season as it is turnover size, losing this many starters and expecting to build it back for 2026 that was supposed to be our year with a favorable schedule isn’t as good as it looked 6 months ago with a lot of our key starters we needed to try and get back gone.

You plan on us playing in the playoffs next season and suddenly don't because we lost Willis, Gill and Cook? We only know what we lost so far. Soon, we will know what we gained. Plenty of time to worry after that point.

 

[anomander]

we won 10 games just a year ago for God's sake. We lost our QB. That ruined our season. Shameful and malpractice not to have anyone that could step in but sorry if I'm not living in the greg era because Angeli got hurt.

That’s exactly my point. We won 10 games with mostly upperclassmen and proven players.

 

[Trueblue25]

Im still so bummed the bridge seems burned with Ross

 

[Sdot]

You plan on us playing in the playoffs next season and suddenly don't because we lost Willis, Gill and Cook? We only know what we lost so far. Soon, we will know what we gained. Plenty of time to worry after that point.

Not even playoffs but to get 8 wins I’d like to keep at least a returning starting reciever and one of Hornsby or Ross. Maybe Willis if he was priced right. And would of liked to see more guys who have been here 2-3 years that most likely won’t play next year at all go down to g5 and use those scholarships on some juco guys.

 

[Scooch]

At some point we are allowed to be concerned, right?

Never! Losing a guy never matters.

Until we complain about depth in October.

 

[richmondcuse03]

Guys, some of the guys that we are upset about leaving were told to leave. I can't and won't get in to it more than that.

Yup. After learning more less concerned here. Will leave it at that. However if Steve leaves then I’m jumping off a bridge.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Yup. After learning more less concerned here. Will leave it at that. However if Steve leaves then I’m jumping off a bridge.

DON'T DO IT RICHMOND!!!!

 

[Archbold44]

My understanding was that Angeli, Cook, Gill, and Willis had this offense humming to a point where we would have won 4-6 more games in Angeli was healthy. If Angeli will be healthy next year, why not run it back as an offense? I do not get chasing away all of our WRs/RBs. And if they left despite us wanting them, then things are more broken.

 

[Archbold44]

Yup. After learning more less concerned here. Will leave it at that. However if Steve leaves then I’m jumping off a bridge.

Is that a worry?

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

Lots of natural talent, often looked very confused.

 

[cusefan88]

Yup. After learning more less concerned here. Will leave it at that. However if Steve leaves then I’m jumping off a bridge.

Oh my lord is that even a thing

 

[jr4750]

That’s exactly my point. We won 10 games with mostly upperclassmen and proven players.

Yep, a ton of guys who knew where their lockers were and what Marshall street looked like.

 

[richmondcuse03]

Is that a worry?

No. Just that would be the type of guy leaving who would have me very concerned.

 

[JaySU22]

Well, I’m nervous. Seems like what little talent we had is heading for the hills. I am skeptical we can replace them because it just doesn’t seem like we have the funding to be a big boy program.

 

[richmondcuse03]

Lots of natural talent, often looked very confused.

Yea the number of times he lined up in wrong spot and had to ask someone was concerning.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Yea the number of times he lined up in wrong spot and had to ask someone was concerning.

That did seem to happen frequently with him. Unusually so.

 

[Archbold44]

No. Just that would be the type of guy leaving who would have me very concerned.

Anyone else? If that is all we have, then the cupboard is bare.

I just think there is some immaturity in players assuming a new location will necessarily be better. But with more $$&, hard to criticize a move. Seems like the opposite can happen with coaches… we can get Portal Player X for some percentage $$$ of current Player Y. Maybe sometimes it is better to stick with what you know. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

 

[Jdono927]

I struggle to see a top program looking to poach Angeli given the nature of his injury, but I guess weirder things have happened. Lots of good QB’s in the portal and we’d likely represent a fairly appealing spot given the production we’ve gotten from McCord/pre-injury Angeli.

The only guy I’d be truly genuinely worried about losing should they leave this year is Samuel personally.

 

[Bulldog04]

richmondcuse03 and I sat together for a few games very close to the action and we literally said to each other 15 times a game “Johntay has no idea what the play is”. His talent is there but I have never seen a high level player be so lost so often. Sure this is a loss, but knowing what happened, it’s all fine that he’s going

 

[anomander]

No. Just that would be the type of guy leaving who would have me very concerned.

Is there anyone else besides Angeli that would even earn a reaction? At this point outside of maybe Samuels, the roster is either totally unproven, or garbage.

 

[Scooch]

I’m not concerned about any one guy leaving. That’s the sport now.

I am concerned about a lot of productive guys leaving. We better have a TON of replacements lined up via the portal.

If not, there’s going to be a lot of excuse making about young players needing time to develop while we win 6 games max.

Remember, 2026 was the season where people said Brown would put it all together and really compete for the top of the conference. Last year was a “punt” even before it started. If the goalposts start getting moved that’s a bad sign.

 

[bigmike]

Yup. After learning more less concerned here. Will leave it at that. However if Steve leaves then I’m jumping off a bridge.

I have completely mind crushed that possibility.