Transfer Portal Thread

[apaladin]

Ingram from WC to EKU? Why?

Did you think this was the guy from Wofford? This is a CB from Furman. EKU was the only offer he reported.

Good luck to him. Hopefully he finds what he’s looking for at EKU

I did my bad.

[The Jackal]

Looks like Hinton picked up an offer from Eastern Michigan. Twitter says he officially visited WMU this week and Coastal today.

It's 19 degrees tomorrow in Michigan, so maybe that works in Furman's favor.

Most likely it works in Coastal's favor.

I had not looked into Coastal in a while. They are not quite the Chanticleers of a few years ago.

Jamey Chadwell is at Liberty now. Coastal fired their OC back in October. They currently do not have an OC, the responsibilities for which is handled by the head coach, who looks like a guy that's bounced around a lot.

The Chants lost six of their last nine games. They made a bowl game, but it is the Myrtle Beach Bowl, which is played in their home stadium. They finished fifth in their division and their only conference wins came against teams with losing records. It's kind of wild to me that you can "make a bowl game" with a losing conference record and that game be played in your home stadium. It's like everyone gets a trophy.

Statistically, they were one of the Sun Belt's worst passing offenses. They completed around 53% of their passes. The QB they rode with is a sophomore, so unless they bring in someone, he's probably the guy. Just for comparison's sake, Furman was a better and more efficient passing offense statistically.

Now, we've lost grad students to Coastal before (Adrian Hope and Evan Jumper come to mind). I also don't know what motivates guys, but on the pure football side, it's almost like you'd be leaving a program with an established coordinator in an offense where you know you'll be the guy to start over at a program where you don't know where you'll be on the depth chart, going through a coaching change at coordinator, in an offense that really struggled to throw the ball last season.

This is just me, perhaps, but any time programs are firing coordinators mid-season, it's not great.

[FUBeAR]

Newberry Transfer.
2 years of eligibility
6-7 265 TE
FCS offers from SEMO, West Georgia, UT-Martin, Mercyhurst, Murray State

Video says to FUBeAR … “he could gain 40 pounds and be an NFL OT prospect with good feet, who can also catch…” … but FUBeAR is always OL biased.

FUBeAR will continue to allow FU’s excellent Coaching Staff to make those kinds of decisions.

[AllTimeFU]

Looks like the 2 linemen from Newberry went to ECU and Charlotte.

[FUwolfpacker]

Clyburn seems like a pretty good replacement for Chappel. Maybe not quite as quick as Pline was, but I think he moves surprisingly well from the little film I've seen of him.

I don't believe Furman ever offered Trvansky. As least I don't remember him reporting an offer. Shirley probably would have been nice to have. I will be interested to see if any other linemen pop up with offers. I would be surprised if we got Poindexter with the offers he's reported, which leaves Collins from WF as the only other OL offer (that is public on twitter).

[The Jackal]

I like the Clyburn pickup a lot.

Just scanning his Twitter, it looks like coming out of high school he may have been one of those "doesn't really have a position" kids. He listed himself at 6'4 210 TE/LS/FB/LT. That sounds a like a kid a smaller school may take a run at for a TE spot.

Newberry wasn't particularly good, but it appears they ran sort of a shotgun heavy rushing attack that a lot of D2 schools love. Clyburn doesn't have a lot of receptions, but neither did Pline coming out of Ferris State.

So, Furman looks to be the beneficiary of a kid that grew 3 inches and gained 50 lbs in a college weight program.

In terms of use, almost certainly Clyburn will be targeted for that in-line/edge blocker TE role that Pline/Gissinger occupied for Furman. We should have Burrell returning as more of a receiving TE and we saw a lot of positive things from Pryor and Tormey this season in their abilities as receivers.

[apaladin]

Right now TE is probably the only position where we don’t need help. Maybe he plays somewhere else? LS?

[Paul C]

Right now TE is probably the only position where we don’t need help. Maybe he plays somewhere else? LS?

Don't forget Chappell left via the portal....

[FUwolfpacker]

Right now TE is probably the only position where we don’t need help. Maybe he plays somewhere else? LS?

Don't forget Chappell left via the portal....

Right. And as much as we like the guys we still have, the coaches have shown they really value a blocking TE. We don't really have one of those right now.

Think we'll be ok at LS. Jacob Hefner, who handled 1/2 the long snapping duties last year, went into the portal. I'm fairly confident that was partly because it's going to be Riley Smith's job to lose again next year. He won both jobs out of fall camp before we had a few XP/FG snap issues. My guess is the coaches feel confident Smith will take that step forward this year.

[FUBeAR]

Right now TE is probably the only position where we don’t need help. Maybe he plays somewhere else? LS?

Don't forget Chappell left via the portal....

Right. And as much as we like the guys we still have, the coaches have shown they really value a blocking TE. We don't really have one of those right now.

Think we'll be ok at LS. Jacob Hefner, who handled 1/2 the long snapping duties last year, went into the portal. I'm fairly confident that was partly because it's going to be Riley Smith's job to lose again next year. He won both jobs out of fall camp before we had a few XP/FG snap issues. My guess is the coaches feel confident Smith will take that step forward this year.

Speaking as a former Long Snapper and Coach of those types (not like a private trainer / coach, but having responsibility for their performance in (real) Football games)…

If a Long Snapper can Long Snap, he can Short Snap.

It’s WAY easier to snap 7 yards, with little to no kick coverage responsibility, and passively protect, than it is to snap 15 yards, actively protect, and have to cover 40-50 yards downfield. And since the Defense is not allowed to hit the Snapper now (on either), Short Snapping is a piece of cake.

That said, there’s some precision (laces/rotation & smaller target zone) with Short Snapping that is not highly critical in Long Snapping. But, even still…the only reason a Long Snapper has to screw up more than 1 in a 100+ Short Snaps is if, like a golfer, he gets “the yips” - i.e., it’s in his head.

Thousands of off-season Short Snap reps are the sure-fire cure. He’ll be fine.

[gman84]

Newberry Transfer.
2 years of eligibility
6-7 265 TE
FCS offers from SEMO, West Georgia, UT-Martin, Mercyhurst, Murray State

Video says to FUBeAR … “he could gain 40 pounds and be an NFL OT prospect with good feet, who can also catch…” … but FUBeAR is always OL biased.

FUBeAR will continue to allow FU’s excellent Coaching Staff to make those kinds of decisions.

He can play…love the one handed grab! I believe over time our best portal players will probably come from D2. In 2023 our best were 89 and 99.
Our B ball program has also picked some gems from the D2 level over the last several seasons.

[The Jackal]

Looks like Hinton picked up an offer from Eastern Michigan. Twitter says he officially visited WMU this week and Coastal today.

It's 19 degrees tomorrow in Michigan, so maybe that works in Furman's favor.

Most likely it works in Coastal's favor.

I had not looked into Coastal in a while. They are not quite the Chanticleers of a few years ago.

Jamey Chadwell is at Liberty now. Coastal fired their OC back in October. They currently do not have an OC, the responsibilities for which is handled by the head coach, who looks like a guy that's bounced around a lot.

The Chants lost six of their last nine games. They made a bowl game, but it is the Myrtle Beach Bowl, which is played in their home stadium. They finished fifth in their division and their only conference wins came against teams with losing records. It's kind of wild to me that you can "make a bowl game" with a losing conference record and that game be played in your home stadium. It's like everyone gets a trophy.

Statistically, they were one of the Sun Belt's worst passing offenses. They completed around 53% of their passes. The QB they rode with is a sophomore, so unless they bring in someone, he's probably the guy. Just for comparison's sake, Furman was a better and more efficient passing offense statistically.

Now, we've lost grad students to Coastal before (Adrian Hope and Evan Jumper come to mind). I also don't know what motivates guys, but on the pure football side, it's almost like you'd be leaving a program with an established coordinator in an offense where you know you'll be the guy to start over at a program where you don't know where you'll be on the depth chart, going through a coaching change at coordinator, in an offense that really struggled to throw the ball last season.

This is just me, perhaps, but any time programs are firing coordinators mid-season, it's not great.

Coastal got beat soundly in their home game/bowl game.

Both their top two QBs are in the transfer portal and didn't play. Not sure the grass is greener over there.

[FUBeAR]

Looks like Hinton picked up an offer from Eastern Michigan. Twitter says he officially visited WMU this week and Coastal today.

It's 19 degrees tomorrow in Michigan, so maybe that works in Furman's favor.

Most likely it works in Coastal's favor.

I had not looked into Coastal in a while. They are not quite the Chanticleers of a few years ago.

Jamey Chadwell is at Liberty now. Coastal fired their OC back in October. They currently do not have an OC, the responsibilities for which is handled by the head coach, who looks like a guy that's bounced around a lot.

The Chants lost six of their last nine games. They made a bowl game, but it is the Myrtle Beach Bowl, which is played in their home stadium. They finished fifth in their division and their only conference wins came against teams with losing records. It's kind of wild to me that you can "make a bowl game" with a losing conference record and that game be played in your home stadium. It's like everyone gets a trophy.

Statistically, they were one of the Sun Belt's worst passing offenses. They completed around 53% of their passes. The QB they rode with is a sophomore, so unless they bring in someone, he's probably the guy. Just for comparison's sake, Furman was a better and more efficient passing offense statistically.

Now, we've lost grad students to Coastal before (Adrian Hope and Evan Jumper come to mind). I also don't know what motivates guys, but on the pure football side, it's almost like you'd be leaving a program with an established coordinator in an offense where you know you'll be the guy to start over at a program where you don't know where you'll be on the depth chart, going through a coaching change at coordinator, in an offense that really struggled to throw the ball last season.

This is just me, perhaps, but any time programs are firing coordinators mid-season, it's not great.

Coastal got beat soundly in their home game/bowl game.

Both their top two QBs are in the transfer portal and didn't play. Not sure the grass is greener over there.

Maybe not, but it’s definitely tealer.