Transfer Portal

[CatchEmAll]

Woods has been "unknown" ever since I've been checking. I just hope he doesn't revisit the commitment he flipped to go to Jacks

As of Monday he was still heading west (source, trust me, I have an insider on Woods). Have not reconfirmed since as it seemed locked in.

However, with both Angel and Vorhees going he may have changed his tune.

[jakejc795]

McFeely: "Information available in transfer portal indicates former South Dakota State players Kirby Vorhees, Angel Johnson and Tucker Large have signed with Washington State and are following former head coach Jimmy Rogers there."

Dang it, McFeely; could you please just go bowling and rant to Izzo about how you're going to crotch chop Zim & Gaskins when Bison go FBS?

Seriously though, if true, I was surprised it took Large that long to transfer. Given mutual appreciation between Jimmy and Large, I thought Large's transfer would be nearly immediate once Jimmy was hired

[goon]

I honestly thought Angel was going to be more return specialist due to his fumbling issues. I thought both vorhees or woods would pass him if not both 9n the depth chart.

[peavy]

McFeely: "Information available in transfer portal indicates former South Dakota State players Kirby Vorhees, Angel Johnson and Tucker Large have signed with Washington State and are following former head coach Jimmy Rogers there."

[jakejc795]

I thought within the day JI had all three RB going to Pullman. Now, Woods is "unknown." Vorhees and Angel to Pullman.

Woods has been "unknown" ever since I've been checking. I just hope he doesn't revisit the commitment he flipped to go to Jacks

[peavy]

Hawthorne to Iowa

[jbjack]

I like how JI falsely reports on Wilde, commits to only reporting publicly announced info, then starts randomly moving people on their list without any insight.

I thought within the day JI had all three RB going to Pullman. Now, Woods is "unknown." Vorhees and Angel to Pullman.

[LetsGoRabbits]

Do you think he'll earn degree there?

I guess he can always do what some NFL players do and take classes in offseason

could be jumping the gun on his nfl career. VERY clearly a talented player, but at this point I dont think i can say he has proven he is better than the Jankes or Jake Weineke

[jakejc795]

Another tweet from Stig about players thinking of transferring
https://x.com/holynutmeg/status/1875...406750630?s=46

I wonder if the rest of the coaching staff being in flux is having any impact.

Selfishly, I'd at least like them to announce the OC and DC ... yesterday

[LetsGoRabbits]

Stanard and Dontae Johnson are on the JI staying list. Ridley is in the portal and I believe is on the WSU visit list.

am i wrong remembering reports from last spring about the coaches being extremely impressed with Stanard as an incoming spring semester freshman. seems extremely likely that we are going to take a hit in depth of quality players, BUT there are still going to be plenty of EXCELLENT players on this roster

with confirmation of Angel to WSU, I say again, this makes absolutely zero sense! one of those 3 would have been the clear #1 for what is very likely to be still one of the top handful of teams in fcs. betting Renfro is feeling kinda good about his current situation

[jakejc795]

Uh....he gets a degree from Northwestern.....I hear that's pretty good

Do you think he'll earn degree there?

I guess he can always do what some NFL players do and take classes in offseason

[Theee Catrabbit]

Griffin gets some money I guess but is in a worse situation team wise. Yes they are Big Ten but have been irrelevant for years. Good luck to him.

Uh....he gets a degree from Northwestern.....I hear that's pretty good

[witness]

Another tweet from Stig about players thinking of transferring
https://x.com/holynutmeg/status/1875...406750630?s=46

[jakejc795]

Angel to WSU, Pete Nakos on3 tweet

247 has an article about that too. Noting that Angel lacks pass blocking experience, so backs already on roster may be used on passing downs.

[jakejc795]

Interesting Q&A with WSU AD, particularly these exchanges (my read of this is that Jimmy could be overleveraging FB's funding pool if they offer several out of state scholarships)...

COUGFANcom: You touched on this but will Washington State football end up at 79 scholies, or at 85, somewhere between 85 and the new 105 limit, and are there also going to be some partial scholies: What's the fully-funded number for this year's fiscal budget that's currently being worked on?

Honestly, because we're going to more of a pool approach versus number of scholarships until we know how many in-state, how many out-of-state, what type of academic or other aid they'll get, what type of revenue sharing we're going to do vs. outright scholarships … That's a hard question to answer right now.

I think what we're really leaning in on is providing football more money than they've ever had for scholarships. Now how that ends up at the end of the day, how they choose to break it out relative to number of scholarships, that is yet to be seen, But it's not because the financial investment isn't there, and not because it isn't increasing. It's more a product of how they'll choose as a sport, and a coaching staff, to really allocate those resources.

COUGFANcom: The Cougar Collective and others have written the regents asking that the Cougar Athletics budget be restored to the $85 million level of the previous fiscal year. Is that realistic? And is it even realistic to stay at the current $74 million level without additional cuts even there?

I think, as you know, we've been pretty public about how the $74 million definitely is challenging to put forth a high-level Division I athletic program and to really not cut back on the student services and to continue to invest in staffing and everything that's a priority.

We feel like the mid-80s range, that $85 million, is absolutely where we need to be as an athletic program going forward. We feel like short-term, we're doing well in the lower amount while we let some dust settle, so to speak.

But I think that it's an important crossroads for Washington State University as a whole right now to really determine what do they want from their athletic program and how does that look funding-wise. And that's everything -- evaluating things we can generate and do as a department -- but also really what the university could or should be investing in athletics as part of the overall strategic -- and support the overall strategic -- mission. And I think that's the important kind of cross-section for me: I don't feel like it should be athletics vs. academics or other areas of the program.

Overall, it's Washington State University as a whole and really making some strategic decisions of what the priorities are and then what can help best support that. We feel we can help support increasing enrollment and increasing retention and student experience (and) all of those sorts of things that make Washington State University a phenomenal place. But at the end of the day, students are coming here for tremendous academic experiences, too.

Finding a way to really make some long term, strategic decisions on all of that and then how the dust settles on the finances is really important. I think $85 million is an important place for us to land.

All of our new Pac-12 members are only growing their budgets right now and need to … they've found money right now with joining the Pac-12 relative to the conference distribution anticipated to be higher than they currently have. So, we need to do our part and find additional revenue streams as well.