2025 NFL Draft

1SEIACLONE

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This year's draft is crazy. Most of the picks are from power conferences. Very few from the MAC, Mountain West, or non-FBS schools. Usually there are a good amount of them drafted. And there are some really good ones, especially at DB.
Most of the better players are leaving those conference once they turn out to be a decent player and jump to a Power 4 school with more NIL. Can't blame the kid, but they will become nothing more than a farm system to P4 programs.
 

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Most of the better players are leaving those conference once they turn out to be a decent player and jump to a Power 4 school with more NIL. Can't blame the kid, but they will become nothing more than a farm system to P4 programs.
Agree 1,000%. 2 of "our" guys transferred in. However, there were a few who went the opposite direction (for multiple, different reasons) & were drafted, although it seemed later. Definitely think it is a sign of the times.
 
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I can't get my head wrapped around them not taking an o lineman. Brock was running for his life last season.
I feel exactly the same. Clearly they prioritized the defensive side in this year's draft, and they probably needed to do that. But games are won in the trenches, and they have totally ignored the oline which has been a glaring weakness.

They must have a plan for addressing the oline, but I have no idea what that is. I do know that if I'm Brock Purdy, I'm not real thrilled.
 

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Most of the better players are leaving those conference once they turn out to be a decent player and jump to a Power 4 school with more NIL. Can't blame the kid, but they will become nothing more than a farm system to P4 programs.
I am prepping for this exact conversation when we spend the summer at the lake in Mn - near North Dakota State - which we have taken coaches and players - damn happy with it.
 

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I found it shocking the number of players that were drafted that had played at multiple schools during their career. You have to feel sorry for these smaller programs that bring in a kid, give him a shot and he produces at a high level and then he enters the portal and some other school gets him for his prime years. Not blaming the kid, but the way the system is currently set up, how can these MWC and lower level schools ever hope to find a decent team from one season to another.
 
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