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2025 Transfer Thread/ Portal Offers-- (31) Transfers to UM

uofmman1122 said:
Also, and apologies for this, as it's sort of unrelated, but it's just wild that you keep reducing Cooper Kupp down to his 40 time.

Cooper Kupp.

The guy I saw play live 3 times who was so clearly and obviously the best player on the field for either team by such an enormous margin that it always felt like EWU was breaking some rule somehow by having him on their team. The guy that has the FCS record for receptions and TDs (15 more than 2nd place), and the NCAA all-division record for receiving yards.

You don't think that guy would've excelled in the FBS?

Did you watch him play? Were you asleep from 2013 to 2017?
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Kupp would have been a first round pick. Wilson will get considerably more exposure and NFL credence by playing against better competition.
 
indiancoyote said:
Kupp would have been a first round pick. Wilson will get considerably more exposure and NFL credence by playing against better competition.
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Maybe Wilson wanted some money in his pocket and felt like he had climbed the FCS mountain already. The world changed and NIL is the huge denominator in the equation. It is that simple. Kids now have options and NIL is the Tinder of college football. It will take a very rare individual that will be a team guy that is loyal to a program. Just isn’t going to happen much anymore. Especially if kids have NFL aspirations. Everyone needs to wrap their head around that. Going to be very few four/five year contributors anymore who are top talent athletes.
 
Copper Griz said:
Maybe Wilson wanted some money in his pocket and felt like he had climbed the FCS mountain already. The world changed and NIL is the huge denominator in the equation. It is that simple. Kids now have options and NIL is the Tinder of college football. It will take a very rare individual that will be a team guy that is loyal to a program. Just isn’t going to happen much anymore. Especially if kids have NFL aspirations. Everyone needs to wrap their head around that. Going to be very few four/five year contributors anymore who are top talent athletes.
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Our best shot at loyalty is Montana kids, and close regional kids. Although that's not a given either, as the Idaho state defensive stud, from Pocatello, just signed with Ohio st.

Deion Sanders has a great point in all this... there should be a compensation system to fcs programs that lose these kids. It's the only fair way to compete, given fcs has nowhere near the access to funds as fbs.
 
nicktaber58 said:
Our best shot at loyalty is Montana kids, and close regional kids. Although that's not a given either, as the Idaho state defensive stud, from Pocatello, just signed with Ohio st.

Deion Sanders has a great point in all this... there should be a compensation system to fcs programs that lose these kids. It's the only fair way to compete, given fcs has nowhere near the access to funds as fbs.
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The more time goes on, the more I like where CDA's head has been at for a long while. Sooner or later there will be an FCS team that promotes themselves as the place to go to get a look at the FBS. "We will help you move up. You are a highly touted prospect that won't be a starter as a freshman in the FBS? Come here, get on tape, and you have a shot to get a fat paycheck for your junior and senior year. You give us your first one or two years, help us win now, and we will actively work to help you move up to the FBS team that will be right for you." That will be a very attractive recruiting pitch for a lot of teams, and you could use a guy like Riley Wilson as the poster boy for it.

I know that it isn't really up the alley of our current staff, but some FCS team is going to do that and they will gain some very recruits because of it.
 
ElrodGrizzly said:
The more time goes on, the more I like where CDA's head has been at for a long while. Sooner or later there will be an FCS team that promotes themselves as the place to go to get a look at the FBS. "We will help you move up. You are a highly touted prospect that won't be a starter as a freshman in the FBS? Come here, get on tape, and you have a shot to get a fat paycheck for your junior and senior year. You give us your first one or two years, help us win now, and we will actively work to help you move up to the FBS team that will be right for you." That will be a very attractive recruiting pitch for a lot of teams, and you could use a guy like Riley Wilson as the poster boy for it.

I know that it isn't really up the alley of our current staff, but some FCS team is going to do that and they will gain some very recruits because of it.
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Agreed! And my opinion for best portal transfers in are 2 year players like Hayden Harris. 1st year gets his feet under him, starts to excel, senior year leaves his legacy.
 
I guess Hayden Harris would be reverse osmosis ?

" Hey student-athletes, if you're at an FBS school, buried on the depth chart and you want to have a shot atThe NFL, do what Hayden Harris did at Montana and Super Bowl-winning QB and current Indianappolis Colts QB Joe Flacco did @ Delaware years ago and transfer to The FCS: The GRIZ or another high-profile FCS school, like NDSU, SDSU, USD or MSU because the only way you are ever going to draw attention from the NFL is to see the playing field and you'll have a much better chance of doing that here. We can't make any promises and you will have to compete here as well to see the playing field on game day, " and then to maybe sweeten the pot even more, our NIL folks can send some $ to such kids.

Seem theoretical--it's already happening and has been for many years !!! Joe Flacco has over 45,000 career passing yards in The NFL and is headed to Canton after he retires. He is Exhibit A for transferring FBS to FCS and getting an NFL look. And while Hayden Harris may or may not make it in the NFL, now he is at least in the discussion. He would not have been on any NFL team's radar had he remained on the bench @ UCLA !!!
 
ElrodGrizzly said:
The more time goes on, the more I like where CDA's head has been at for a long while. Sooner or later there will be an FCS team that promotes themselves as the place to go to get a look at the FBS. "We will help you move up. You are a highly touted prospect that won't be a starter as a freshman in the FBS? Come here, get on tape, and you have a shot to get a fat paycheck for your junior and senior year. You give us your first one or two years, help us win now, and we will actively work to help you move up to the FBS team that will be right for you." That will be a very attractive recruiting pitch for a lot of teams, and you could use a guy like Riley Wilson as the poster boy for it.

I know that it isn't really up the alley of our current staff, but some FCS team is going to do that and they will gain some very recruits because of it.
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What are NDSU and SDSU doing? Replicate it. Cost of attendance and NIL could be the difference. No need to recreate the wheel. Do what works
 
indiancoyote said:
Develop players. That's what every great program does.
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You are also developing players, and those players can leave and go make money elsewhere and seek other opportunities. Lineman on both sides of the ball are a premium. Crazy amounts of money out there right now and currently the Griz don't have the same money for lineman that NSDU and SDSU have.
 
Brother Bear said:
You are also developing players, and those players can leave and go make money elsewhere and seek other opportunities. Lineman on both sides of the ball are a premium. Crazy amounts of money out there right now and currently the Griz don't have the same money for lineman that NSDU and SDSU have.
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For great players. Schools don't waste money on players like Riley. Players like him or better than him are a dime a dozen at FBS schools. He did not even come close to dominating at the FCS level
 
indiancoyote said:
Develop players. That's what every great program does.
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Riley Wilson was a special teams guy at Hawaii. Who developed him? Racanelli the same at UW. Who developed Jr Bergen? Keelan White? Grossman? Levi Janacaro? Braxton Hill? Ryder Meyer? Brandon Casey? Patrick O'Connell? AJ Forbes never saw the field at Nebraska..Walker was a backup D Lineman. Dylan Cook was an NAIA QB and now is an NFL lineman.
 
UncleRico said:
Riley Wilson was a special teams guy at Hawaii. Who developed him? Racanelli the same at UW. Who developed Jr Bergen? Keelan White? Grossman? Levi Janacaro? Braxton Hill? Ryder Meyer? Brandon Casey? Patrick O'Connell? AJ Forbes never saw the field at Nebraska..Walker was a backup D Lineman. Dylan Cook was an NAIA QB and now is an NFL lineman.
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Every player you mentioned were dominate high school players.
 
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