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If we can get anything resembling competence from the next OC, I feel very strongly that Iowa is a playoff team next season. A bookend LT will go a long ways to helping the entire offense.

At OSU will likely be a loss. Their defense is going to be absolutely insane. Like, 5-6 1st-round draft picks insane. Otherwise, I don’t see any games on the schedule that I would chalk up as losses.
 
If we can get anything resembling competence from the next OC, I feel very strongly that Iowa is a playoff team next season. A bookend LT will go a long ways to helping the entire offense.

At OSU will likely be a loss. Their defense is going to be absolutely insane. Like, 5-6 1st-round draft picks insane. Otherwise, I don’t see any games on the schedule that I would chalk up as losses.
30k Iowa fans at the Rose Bowl for UCLA game?
 
Sucks he had to settle for iowa

Maybe his mom can find bags of cash at michigan or ohio state for him to decommit at the last minute again
 
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They’ve lost a bunch of NFL caliber players. I don’t feel for them, but I wonder about what the game has evolved into.
It’s always difficult for me to muster any empathy for Alabama, but in this situation the NCAA’s timetable really screwed them over. Most of the guys from the December episode of the transfer portal have already found landing spots. Now that everyone else is mostly situated, they lose at least 10 players, including several starters and their highly touted freshman QB who had graduated high school early and already started classes at Bama.

Until this week I thought the NCAA had eliminated the special portal when coaches leave, but apparently not. Now, if I’m not mistaken, Bama has to wait until the next portal session after spring practice to replace the guys they just lost.

That rule seems unfair to any team who loses their coach after the portal has already closed for everyone else.
 
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It’s always difficult for me to muster any empathy for Alabama, but in this situation the NCAA’s timetable really screwed them over. Most of the guys from the December episode of the transfer portal have already found landing spots. Now that everyone else is mostly situated, they lose at least 10 players, including several starters and their highly touted freshman QB who had graduated high school early and already started classes at Bama.

Until this week I thought the NCAA had eliminated the special portal when coaches leave, but apparently not. Now, if I’m not mistaken, Bama has to wait until the next portal session after spring practice to replace the guys they just lost.

That rule seems unfair to any team who loses their coach after the portal has already closed for everyone else.
Alabama can bring players in from the portal just like any other program.
 
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Alabama can bring players in from the portal just like any other program.
Sure. But the vast majority of good players have already found a new home. The portal opened up for everybody at the end of the regular season and everybody lost players but everybody also had a chance to replace those players.

Now the portal is only open for players to leave from about 4 schools - Alabama, Washington, Arizona, and San Jose State. Those four schools are at a disadvantage compared to everyone else in the country.
 
Did He specifically mention any Iowa coaches reaching out to him? The entire interview, he seemed to mentioning the Iowa fan base.
I took it as referring to someone on the coaching staff, but I don't see it as tampering. Iowa's coaches developed a relationship with him over several years and I think they were just reaching out to encourage him as he dealt with normal freshman struggles, not trying to talk him into coming back to Iowa. They had no reason at that time to think Saban was going to retire at the end of the season or that Proctor would be transferring.
 
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I took it as referring to someone on the coaching staff, but I don't see it as tampering. Iowa's coaches developed a relationship with him over several years and I think they were just reaching out to encourage him as he dealt with normal freshman struggles, not trying to talk him into coming back to Iowa. They had no reason at that time to think Saban was going to retire at the end of the season or that Proctor would be transferring.

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