Transfer Portal Analysis: The Busiest Week in Oklahoma State Football History

Thanks RA, good stuff.

Thanks for the information…

Is it me or the safety position looks like it needs more players? Especially more starters ?

I believe that we know have close to 10 players on scholarship at the safety position. We need DT's more than any other position. Five on scholarship is not enough to get through the season

RA: are any of the preferred walk-ons DT's?

I'm getting pretty nervous about next season... this is not setting up well to have a bowl eligible season... maybe bowl eligible, but that's about it.

In summary, on offense, we have no proven QB, no proven deep-thread WR, the slot may be okay, but losing Presley makes it hard to "improve", and TE is mostly all new aside from Ford, RB is by committee ATM, from what I can tell. The coaches schemes and alignments are all new. On the bright side, for me, the use of more TEs and using them to keep the opposing defense on the field is something I believe we will really benefit from.

Yeah, I get it, there is so much "promise" at many of those positions, and their "tape" looked great (against lesser competition). Let's just say I'm hoping this comes together quickly.

Defensively, I'm at a complete loss at determining what we may have next year. The DLine was supposed to be a strength last year, but they couldn't get any push, and from what I can tell, we've gone backwards on the DLine (at least I don't see anybody coming in that we be a huge improvement). LB was supposed to be a strength, then everybody got hurt, now they're all gone. Hopefully the guys coming in will at least be as good as the folks we have returning, or better. We lost our best Safety and CB, and pass coverage was not our strength to begin with.

In summary, it appears that we lost more in total that we added, so far. I'm an encouraged to move away from the 3-3 base defense (reportedly), that should help us with run defense, and blitzing (pressure).

I'm thrilled that we appear to be going in a different direction on offense and defense, but I'm going to need to see a whole lot from some new players during Spring and Fall drills to have me expecting more than 6 wins. I'll need to look at the schedule (and opponents personnel) a little more closely before I finalize predictions on next season.

I mean, if that group from last season could not even win a conference game, I'm anxious to see what this next completely new team can accomplish.

My mom always recommended that "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all". So………..