The Portal, 2025 Style

[Fightingscot82]

IUP is fully funded, Shepherd is not. It’s more about scholarship money than anything else..

Not even close. Nobody in this conference is fully funded. IUP is probably in the vicinity of 25 +/- 5. Gannon might be at 30 +/- 3 but that's Kohls Cash and coupon codes.

[RamPride]

If you have less than five kids in the portal at this stage, your program is doing something right to retain players. Even 5-7 isn’t horrible. When you get to double digits and several are your better players, that’s a problem. How on Earth IUP hasn’t had a single player enter the portal yet is astonishing. You’d think one or two would leave for reasons ranging from being disgruntled to wanting to play closer to home. Shepherd’s long list is most surprising to me.

IUP is fully funded, Shepherd is not. It’s more about scholarship money than anything else..

[EyeoftheHawk]

If you have less than five kids in the portal at this stage, your program is doing something right to retain players. Even 5-7 isn’t horrible. When you get to double digits and several are your better players, that’s a problem. How on Earth IUP hasn’t had a single player enter the portal yet is astonishing. You’d think one or two would leave for reasons ranging from being disgruntled to wanting to play closer to home. Shepherd’s long list is most surprising to me.

[Fightingscot82]

From the school and fans perspective, this is a sh*t show. It is now impossible to build a program in the traditional sense at any level other than top of the P4.

Anyone skeptical of the portal should check out these kids recruiting trails. Many have G5 offers and nearly all have FCS offers. We are the minor league.

[Bart]

Bowes I don’t really care about but losing one of the only kickers on the roster sucks. I don’t know if I can take another season of Riley (assuming he comes back) doing all of the kicking.

Paserk already transferred in from Lackawanna, and played in 2 games. Not much to judge him on. There were 4 other kickers injured too. Crews was the best DL if he goes. Bowes missed nearly 2 of his 4 years with injuries, but would have been nice to have back for a 5th. It seemed the new offense didn't use TE much until injuries took out the wr core.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Bowes I don’t really care about but losing one of the only kickers on the roster sucks. I don’t know if I can take another season of Riley (assuming he comes back) doing all of the kicking.

The market is flooded with kickers. They won't have any trouble finding one.

[TheBigCat2192]

Here's my best attempt from late last night when I couldn't sleep:

Bloomsburg
Matthew Bowes, WR
Charles Crews, DL
Benjamin Paserk, K

Bowes I don’t really care about but losing one of the only kickers on the roster sucks. I don’t know if I can take another season of Riley (assuming he comes back) doing all of the kicking.

[Fightingscot82]

Here's my best attempt from late last night when I couldn't sleep:

Bloomsburg
Matthew Bowes, WR
Charles Crews, DL
Benjamin Paserk, K

California
Brandon Choi, LB
Rashan Murray, DB
Eric Willis, WR

Clarion
Ty Hurst, QB
Jermere Jones, WR
Kolt Kqira, WR
Paul Newton, RB
Hunter Robertson, K
LJ Samuels, DB
Trevon Tate, WR

East Stroudsburg
Justin Cook, WR
Tahir Mills, RB
Adewale Obayanju, DB

Edinboro
Teagan Brown, WR
Matt Carlisle, QB
Ryan Cochran, DB
Wilfredo Diaz, LB
Zach Malpica, LB
Terrance Pendergrass, RB

Gannon
Jonathan Bowden, TE
Charles Calhoun, LB
Jerome Lee, RB
Donovan Marcus
Tank Mason, WR
Jaden Self, ATH
Daquan Stevenson, DL
Jayden Whitaker, QB

Indiana
None so far

Kutztown
Mekhi Gibson, WR
Sincere Thomas, WR

Lock Haven
James Bermudez, RB
Matthew Fredrick, OL
Donovan Jones, OL
Kyle Keckler, QB
Blayz McGhee, DB
Sean Petzold, DL
William Pickett, QB
Richard Scott, OL
Jacob Sturm, RB
Oscar Uduma, DB/LB
T'Iar Young, WR

Millersville
Angel Cabrera, RB/LB
Jalen Carter, WR
Robert Footman, QB
Wilson Gonzalez, DL
Mekhi Johnson, DB
Titus Kruah, WR
Jordan Miller, RB/WR
Amir Muhammad, DB
Jabriel Rhodes-Nelson, LB
Gus Ross, DB

Seton Hill
David Awuah, DB
Taiyon Battle, WR
Ky’ron Craggette, RB
Brady Greenough, LB
Emanuel Mason, LB
Donato Stepney, DB
Musa Tama, LB
Oscar Uduma, DB

Shepherd
Jaden Bacon, DB
Brodie Carroll, LB
Cameron Dorner, WR
Miles Greer, DB
Donte Harrison, DB
Brett Kwoka, LB
Asa Mayo, WR
Jahmari Nelson, RB
Harold O'Neal, LB
Will Patterson, WR/ATH
Lek Powell, QB
Jt Kouame Yao, LB

Shippensburg
Jaimen Bryant, WR/KR
Mike Fayemi, DB
De’chaunè Jackson, DB
Tanner Luther, K
Ty_Kephart, DB/LB
Ryan Orr, LS
Jaquan Redfern, DL
Sam Stoner, QB
Joshua Waite, OL

Slippery Rock
Thomas Lane, DL
Daniel Long, DL

West Chester
Mike Darcy, TE
Dan Hicks, DL
Matt Marshall, DB
Patrick Methlie, OL
Connor Noble, LB

[Fightingscot82]

I don't know much about Nulph but to an outsider it seems like a bad situation up there. I remember not so long ago Nulph was being touted as an up and coming coach and I remember somebody mentioning that maybe IUP should hire him.

I think he must have good coaching skills. He beat IUP this year and almost came back and beat SRU (national semifinalist).

The coaching search should be in interesting but I think a home run hire is a longshot. The fact that Nulph gave up on it is telling. If you are a Boro player right now, there is no certainty.

Edinboro is capable of making home run hires. In the last 25 years, they've hired Lou Tepper and Justin Lustig who both quickly turned Edinboro into a strong team. Yes, I know Tepper didn't do well at IUP but he was B2B PSAC West Coach of the Year before then. All the others were internal hires and Nulph. Nulph had lots of upside but only emerged after some bigger name targets declined interest.

Other than the specter of the merger, I think Edinboro is more attractive now than it was when Nulph was hired. New field, recently redone locker rooms, etc. The hardest things are that the existing scholarship totals are low for the conference and the coaching salary pool is also low for the conference. Its a great stepping stone opportunity for someone like Mulrooney was a few years ago.

[iupgroundhog]

New coach will unfortunately have the same money problems. He could be a great fundraiser but that won't help Year 1.

A lot of these kids have a year of good film and can elevate from a 5 percent sliver to a much larger scholarship.

I don't know much about Nulph but to an outsider it seems like a bad situation up there. I remember not so long ago Nulph was being touted as an up and coming coach and I remember somebody mentioning that maybe IUP should hire him.

I think he must have good coaching skills. He beat IUP this year and almost came back and beat SRU (national semifinalist).

The coaching search should be in interesting but I think a home run hire is a longshot. The fact that Nulph gave up on it is telling. If you are a Boro player right now, there is no certainty.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

I know the timing isn't great, but if I had any sway with players, I'd tell them to wait out to see who gets the Edinboro job. You enter the portal now, you're walking out. If Edinboro gets a home run hire, they already gave up before knowing the alternative. I liked Nulph but things weren't that great at Edinboro to see him as the lynchpin to their success.

New coach will unfortunately have the same money problems. He could be a great fundraiser but that won't help Year 1.

A lot of these kids have a year of good film and can elevate from a 5 percent sliver to a much larger scholarship.

[Fightingscot82]

I know the timing isn't great, but if I had any sway with players, I'd tell them to wait out to see who gets the Edinboro job. You enter the portal now, you're walking out. If Edinboro gets a home run hire, they already gave up before knowing the alternative. I liked Nulph but things weren't that great at Edinboro to see him as the lynchpin to their success.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Rashan Murray, Cal, portal



Update: (11) D1 offers in first 24 hours

[shipfbfan1]

Are we talking good D1 or Mercyhurst-tier “D1”? I do get the impression that Mulrooney is more plugged into the portal mentality than some of the other coaches in the league but his biggest portal successes have been grad students like Collier and Romano. I’m curious to see if his salesmanship is enough to get the WR, Young, an FCS look and if not what happens. Does he welcome Young back or tell him to find some other D2 to finish his collegiate career at?

Young is gone. He has almost 2 handful of FCS offers (Youngstown State, Tennessee Tech, Tennessee Martin, Bryant, Murray State, Campbell, Austin Peay, Gardner-Webb & New Hampshire)

[Boro33]

RB's better be able to catch the ball too.

The rbs are ok at catching balls out of the backfield. Saw them vs Slippery Rock this year. They caught a few bubbles and texas routes. They were proficient. But you are right. Powell did a great job of distributing the ball to both wideouts and the rbs!
33 points per game up there this year. Went to national playoffs again. Took a last pass of the game by Tyson to beat them in Shepherdstown a couple years ago.