Marcellus Barnes in the portal

[OttoinGrotto]

Played 5 games. Graded an average overall defender. Average in coverage. Failed as a run defender. Failed as a tackler. Had the highest percentage of missed tackles. 0 INTS. Only 1 pass breakups. Total of 133 snaps all year due to injury.

He had an interception. It got called back on a weird flag.

This one's a bummer.

 

[BKCuse]

Sorry to see him go but I’m not at all worried about the DB corps under Fran. We’ll be fine.

 

[SanDiegoCuse]

Sorry to see him go but I’m not at all worried about the DB corps under Fran. We’ll be fine.

Kinda there with you but a bummer that such a highly rated CB is out the door.

 

[anomander]

This one hurts

 

[SmilinBob]

This stinks but it's just the way it is now. I'm glad SU has an HC that can adapt to this and is ready to battle the system to make this football team better.

 

[Idiocuse22&]

He wasn't joking when he said apart.

 

[tep624]

We are middle tier in the food chain…we will get guys from lower tier schools and lose some to the big boys. Circle of life.

Yep - there will be a certain level of churn unfortunately.

But if he’s homesick it happens - we saw this back in the 90’s and there wasn’t even NIL to deal with.

 

[Cuse12]

Hurts but it’s the way of the portal. Not as worried as I used to be from losses like this prior to Fran.

 

[ImperialOrange]

Hope he finds happiness and a ton of cash wherever he ends up.

He can pull an Agent zero, go get paid SEC money for a year, then come back to Cuse

 

[richmondcuse03]

If guys want to chase the biggest amount, they will leave and Fran will replace them.

 

[orangemass]

Surprised. Probably shouldn’t be. Was he good? Maybe. Time will tell. But defensive back is not a position u overpay for unless elite

 

[SUFaninNJ]

I wonder if this is who SUDadx2 was talking about?

 

[richmondcuse03]

Surprised. Probably shouldn’t be. Was he good? Maybe. Time will tell. But defensive back is not a position u overpay for unless elite

Also hard with an injury. We will see what happens.

 

[Cusefan69]

Just one of those things. As we get better players this will be a standard occurrence. If Fran is doing his job we just reload. Example perhaps one of our 2 best recruits Kerr (the brother) or Samuel step in as the "reload ".Not sweating this one.

 

[Trueblue25]

Good luck to him vs Pena, JRS, Ross and others in Atlanta.

 

[rocklloyd]

This is why having a star recruiter is vital. That‘s been my first question for nearly every coaching candidate. Can they recruit? Even more important in this new nil world

 

[crales44]

Good player. Next man up.

 

[shu 49]

It sucks but he wasnt world beating either so whatever. Gotta talk to Humphrey or someone like that. Gotta have 1 lockdowncorner type at least.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Too bad, but I had a feeling he was the guy Fran was referring to.

 

[RF2044]

Too bad, because we never got to see what this kid was really capable of.

But truthfully, even when we landed him last year at that announcement on TV, I thought it was a longshot for him to be here very long. Oh well. Lots of DBs on the roster, need to replace him via the portal.

 

[Trueblue25]

I think Fran’s very excited about how Kerr looks too.

 

[gocraz4dasu]

Good player and was hoping he’d develop here. Surprisingly didn’t make any really memorable plays this year but he definitely has a lot of potential. But this is the nature of the business now. You win some and you lose some. Good luck to him but time for the next guy to step up! We only had him for 5 games so it’s not like we ever really counted on him very much.

Probably will end up at Tennessee or something.

 

[Orangefan1]

For some reason I’m just not worried at all in the football side of things right now

 

[richmondcuse03]

For some reason I’m just not worried at all in the football side of things right now

Good feeling to have.

 

[corpjet]

He didn't waste any time with his announcement, posted at 12:01am, surely his south east landing spot is confirmed.