***Official portal tracker thread***

At this point, if Penn State has a 10+ win season, that ultimately shows that a projected top Big 12 team can win a lot of games in the B1G.

If Matt struggles, we know that the difference between B1G football and Big 12 football is meaningful..
James Madison already proved it’s bs tbh.

All of these conferences have top heavy, with fast fall off members. Is Ohio State or GA gonna be a problem in the ACC or B12…100%.

The rest? Not so much.
 
So does Matt Campbell get any credit for future Iowa State success? Or is credit given completely for rebuilding the roster after Campbell gutted it. IMO a lot of our transfers over estimated their value.
Campbell should get ZERO credit for anything positive that happens next year at ISU. He left Rogers with NOTHING…. cleaned house. F him!
 
At this point, if Penn State has a 10+ win season, that ultimately shows that a projected top Big 12 team can win a lot of games in the B1G.

If Matt struggles, we know that the difference between B1G football and Big 12 football is meaningfuI
If Ped State struggles, it might have more to do with not having Jon Heacock as a DC rather than the players not being talented enough.
 
So does Matt Campbell get any credit for future Iowa State success? Or is credit given completely for rebuilding the roster after Campbell gutted it. IMO a lot of our transfers over estimated their value.

Credit for future....NO. There's nobody left to carry that torch. CJR (Had to think about who our coach was for a second) set the culture tone and difference during the Iowa/Iowa State basketball game. I'm actually looking forward to next season. Just think about next years transfer portal process. We will lose a couple players BUT we will only need Quality out of the portal not Quantity.

Now you could give Matt some credit for national attention and making ISU a desireable location? But only a small piece.
 
So does Matt Campbell get any credit for future Iowa State success? Or is credit given completely for rebuilding the roster after Campbell gutted it. IMO a lot of our transfers over estimated their value.
Matt gets credit with everything prior to when he left. With the dismantling and rebuilding of the roster, any positive that happens from here forward is all credited to Jimmy Rogers and his staff.
 
my prayer is now for ISU and pedo to go 8-4 and meet in a bowl game.

I’d be fun to see how many of Campbells quitters would skip it…I’m betting quite a few.

And then, after we beat them, we could wheel out a locker to mid field for CJFR to shove Matt in. LOL.
 
All the JUCO kids, other HS players…why get held up by a ‘mid’ guy when a HS kid with more potential & $0 cost is available?

I think a lot of of these kids thought there was gonna be money everywhere after this NIL deal changed. Guys that probably had no business asking for money, were probably asking for money.

You see a kid somewhere with more time to develop from Juco or high school and he’s $0…why wouldn’t you take him over a 2/3 deep who’s asking for money?
I would be surprised if HS kids aren't asking/getting money as well.

But I get your point, once you get past the 4/5 star HS players the money probably drops off considerably depending on school/player.

It would be interesting to see approaches schools take. For instance at a school that has House Settlement plus NIL and has say $30M to spend, do all 85-105 scholarship players get a fixed amount and then guys who play get a specified bonus?

For example a school that has $30M could pay 90 players $150,000 apiece and still have $16.5M to pay out in bonuses.

Would be fun to see individual player pay for each team- even if names were not attached.