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2025 Inbound Portal Options (December 9th - 28th 2024 & April 16th - 25th 2025 Cycle)

CJasmer said:
The only way to control when the portal opens is to have a collective bargaining agreement with the players. Otherwise NCAA will lose the case due to Antitrust reasons. The split of revenue sharing next year will be interesting. Football drives most of the revenue base for the P4 schools but the federal government has declared that revenue sharing needs to be split equitably between men and women sports due to Title IX.
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Many schools now have 7 or 5 week mini-semester within the 15 week semester. I wonder if this ultimately creates a loophole that allows students to transfer into a school mid-march (for the second 7 week mini-semester) while also pushing the transfer portal back to a more reasonable timeframe.

But right. Right now, the academic calendar and the football calendar do not play nicely.
 
CJasmer said:
To get a good QB in the new system you need to spend NIL. You are not getting a good QB without spending at least $250k. For UConn to become a top G5 or low P4 school need to get a good QB.
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It puts more pressure on recruiting a good QB without going to the portal. Of course they will probably leave after one good season.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
It puts more pressure on recruiting a good QB without going to the portal. Of course they will probably leave after one good season.
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I think UConn has a better chance getting a good QB through portal than recruiting high school kid. QBs usually need at least 1 year at the college level. To get a kid out of high school that is ready for college would be a 5 star kid that would cost way more than $250k. Look at some of the 5 star QBs coming out of high school are getting $1 million plus.
 
Unless a QB decides to enter the portal, or coach asks one to go, I don't see us getting a QB out of the portal. We'll have Evers, McDonald, Welliver, and K2 next year. K2 replaces Fagnano. Also have 2 walk ons. 6 seems pretty standard for a QB room.
 
CCSUblue said:
Unless a QB decides to enter the portal, or coach asks one to go, I don't see us getting a QB out of the portal. We'll have Evers, McDonald, Welliver, and K2 next year. K2 replaces Fagnano. Also have 2 walk ons. 6 seems pretty standard for a QB room.
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Well then Mora must have a lot of confidence in Welliver being able to start next year. Zero confidence in Evers.
 
noeynox said:
IMO UConn should be looking at FCS for competent Joe Fagnano types or a tick above his talent level. Proven production over potential.
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It feels like the way the qb portal is going…all we can get is JF or NE types No offense to JF and NE…but they are ok at best. Anyone above their level will get P4 dollars. The good news on NE is that he still has time to develop..and so far hasn’t entered the portal again.

That’s why I was saying for UConn to get an average to above average QB, they will probably have to get lucky on a 2 star or 3 star during recruiting. Or some donor is feeling magnimous and wants to support bringing home a local kid who has interest. A Van Dyke type.

Overall..I think the portal will be good for UConn..but the toughest position will be qb…which makes sense since its the most important position and toughest to predict.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
It feels like the way the qb portal is going…all we can get is JF or NE types No offense to JF and NE…but they are ok at best. Anyone above their level will get P4 dollars. The good news on NE is that he still has time to develop..and so far hasn’t entered the portal again.

That’s why I was saying for UConn to get an average to above average QB, they will probably have to get lucky on a 2 star or 3 star during recruiting. Or some donor is feeling magnimous and wants to support bringing home a local kid who has interest. A Van Dyke type.

Overall..I think the portal will be good for UConn..but the toughest position will be qb…which makes sense since its the most important position and toughest to predict.
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You can win with Fagnano level talent and competent running game and receivers. The MAC has talented passers all over the place. Are they 5 stars? No I don't think it is so much about getting lucky as finding guys who can play at the MAC level. I put Fagnano in that group. That is not or should not be an impossible level to attain. For whatever reason every coach at UConn has found that to be a high bar.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
It feels like the way the qb portal is going…all we can get is JF or NE types No offense to JF and NE…but they are ok at best. Anyone above their level will get P4 dollars. The good news on NE is that he still has time to develop..and so far hasn’t entered the portal again.

That’s why I was saying for UConn to get an average to above average QB, they will probably have to get lucky on a 2 star or 3 star during recruiting. Or some donor is feeling magnimous and wants to support bringing home a local kid who has interest. A Van Dyke type.

Overall..I think the portal will be good for UConn..but the toughest position will be qb…which makes sense since its the most important position and toughest to predict.
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CW was the 48th rated freshman QB according to Phil Steele. That's P4 level.
 
The lack of any incoming or outgoing QBs makes it seem like Mora likes what he has in the stable moving forward. Maybe after the Spring game that changes. I believe the second portal window opens then. The problem there is that the QB will be way behind. Here's to hoping Evers makes a big leap or Welliver is ready to step up.
 
If there was ever a year when finding a Transfer QB wasn't priority #1, this is probably it. We have Evers and at least a couple younger prospects assuming everyone else stays.

I don't mind trying to go with someone who's been in the system. It helped Fagnano. Maybe year 2 of Evers has a similar leap or maybe one of the kids breaks out once they get on the field for real. As a risk/reward computation, standing pat seems a lower risk vs gambling on the portal and sending every QB on the roster running to it.

For comparison, the Penn State backup just got $1M from Missouri. That's not our target market but $250k doesn't sound like the number we need at that position.
 
king conn said:
CW was the 48th rated freshman QB according to Phil Steele. That's P4 level.
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I think the concensus was that he was 3 star..which is great. My point was it will probably be easier to find a good HS QB than a transfer portal QB.

Next year will be interesting…Hopefully the current group of QBs are all there for spring football.
 
noeynox said:
You can win with Fagnano level talent and competent running game and receivers. The MAC has talented passers all over the place. Are they 5 stars? No I don't think it is so much about getting lucky as finding guys who can play at the MAC level. I put Fagnano in that group. That is not or should not be an impossible level to attain. For whatever reason every coach at UConn has found that to be a high bar.
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I think you can win like we did this year…but I think you need better QB talent to beat P4s.
 
CCSUblue said:
Unless a QB decides to enter the portal, or coach asks one to go, I don't see us getting a QB out of the portal. We'll have Evers, McDonald, Welliver, and K2 next year. K2 replaces Fagnano. Also have 2 walk ons. 6 seems pretty standard for a QB room.
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We’re losing 1 of those that you mentioned. Mora is bringing in a portal QB.
 
Buffett10 said:
We’re losing 1 of those that you mentioned. Mora is bringing in a portal QB.
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Does the source say who? Don't speculate here of course. Just curious if the source knows who is going and who is coming.
Or is this wishful thinking and not sourced?
 
Purple Stein said:
Many schools now have 7 or 5 week mini-semester within the 15 week semester. I wonder if this ultimately creates a loophole that allows students to transfer into a school mid-march (for the second 7 week mini-semester) while also pushing the transfer portal back to a more reasonable timeframe.

But right. Right now, the academic calendar and the football calendar do not play nicely.
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It would have to be the same transfer rule for players and ordinary students.
 
CJasmer said:
Is the QB who is leaving being asked to leave?
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JF is the guy I thought we were referring to as leaving all along (eligibility exhausted). We have 4 chilly QBs for '25 in Evers, Welliver, McDonald, and in coming true frosh K Farrar. Ideally, having 5 QB on Scholls works best for us. Or am I wrong here and missed something?
 
ktuck911 said:
JF is the guy I thought we were referring to as leaving all along (eligibility exhausted). We have 4 chilly QBs for '25 in Evers, Welliver, McDonald, and in coming true frosh K Farrar. Ideally, having 5 QB on Scholls works best for us. Or am I wrong here and missed something?
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Good chance we bring in a portal qb that can compete for starter. I suspect Welliver is the projected starter right now in Mora’s mind.
 
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