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Quote from: Etchglow on November 23, 2025, 09:39:40 PMSince I was bored, I went and looked at the folks who have announced they were transferring from UMHB.  Only 9 of the 29 have offers.  7 of the offers are D3, 3 are NAIA, 2 are FCS, and 1 is for a community college.

Yup. Some of the guys I'm not mad at. The JV guys that saw the writing on the wall and just want to play somewhere, no problem. Then you have a guy like D Morris who likely lands on a good FCS or a low end FBS roster, I still don't like it but it's somewhat understandable. JJ Davis probably lands on a mid to low end FCS... I kind of get it but still think it's a mistake. Then you have guys like Battle III that had no business transferring out. Could have stayed and been a damn good corner on a really good defense but instead he jumped on the portal wagon after D Mo and JJ did and he's got no offers. Not saying he's not good enough to get offers but he doesn't have the same body of work yet as Morris or Davis did.. reminds me a lot of Dorien Hill playing 4 games last year in the playoffs and hitting the portal. He showed a ton of promise and might've been our best LB if he had returned this season but instead he hit the portal and got East Central and Trinity and went to Trinity.. that's basically Battle this year... maybe he will come back.

On the positive side of things it looks like we've kept everyone else so far. If that's all we lose we return a way more cohesive group than we have in a few years and will just need to find a few secondary guys to step up.

You got BJ Stewart, we got Dorien Hill.  Both fine athletes who found better fits.

Well I can't speak for everyone but I hope Dorien has a great game this weekend. 

Event if Dorien wasn't down there, I'd be rooting for Trinity this weekend

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Quote from: Etchglow on November 23, 2025, 09:39:40 PMSince I was bored, I went and looked at the folks who have announced they were transferring from UMHB.  Only 9 of the 29 have offers.  7 of the offers are D3, 3 are NAIA, 2 are FCS, and 1 is for a community college.

Yup. Some of the guys I'm not mad at. The JV guys that saw the writing on the wall and just want to play somewhere, no problem. Then you have a guy like D Morris who likely lands on a good FCS or a low end FBS roster, I still don't like it but it's somewhat understandable. JJ Davis probably lands on a mid to low end FCS... I kind of get it but still think it's a mistake. Then you have guys like Battle III that had no business transferring out. Could have stayed and been a damn good corner on a really good defense but instead he jumped on the portal wagon after D Mo and JJ did and he's got no offers. Not saying he's not good enough to get offers but he doesn't have the same body of work yet as Morris or Davis did.. reminds me a lot of Dorien Hill playing 4 games last year in the playoffs and hitting the portal. He showed a ton of promise and might've been our best LB if he had returned this season but instead he hit the portal and got East Central and Trinity and went to Trinity.. that's basically Battle this year... maybe he will come back.

On the positive side of things it looks like we've kept everyone else so far. If that's all we lose we return a way more cohesive group than we have in a few years and will just need to find a few secondary guys to step up.

You got BJ Stewart, we got Dorien Hill.  Both fine athletes who found better fits.

I joke that we made a good trade lol!

Since I was bored, I went and looked at the folks who have announced they were transferring from UMHB.  Only 9 of the 29 have offers.  7 of the offers are D3, 3 are NAIA, 2 are FCS, and 1 is for a community college.

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Quote from: Mavchamp on November 22, 2025, 04:09:59 PMChristmas wish list.....

ASC recruits two-three schools to join the conference in the off-season

Wayland Baptist
Louisiana Christian
Sul Ross State
Nelson University
Centenary

I don't think Louisiana Christian will come back.  They just won 1/3 of the conference championship over in the sooner athletic conference. 

Holy cow, just looked at Sul Ross's football record... 0-11, only two close games, 3 point loss to a 2-9 team and a 6 point loss to a 3-8 team.  Outside of those two losses, average margin of victory was 58 2/3 points...  48.8 points total.  Outscored 129 to 666 :O...

What did LC win besides football? No matter what, yeah I can't see them coming back considering they did share the title in the SAC but still got crushed by HSU.

As for Sul Ross, I would assume playing at UTRGV and at SFA paid for the rest of the season so while it was a hard season, it is the life of a low tier D2 team.

Wow, LC is down to only 5 sports for me and 5 sports for women.

Quote from: Mavchamp on November 22, 2025, 04:09:59 PMChristmas wish list.....

ASC recruits two-three schools to join the conference in the off-season

Wayland Baptist
Louisiana Christian
Sul Ross State
Nelson University
Centenary

I don't think Louisiana Christian will come back.  They just won 1/3 of the conference championship over in the sooner athletic conference. 

Holy cow, just looked at Sul Ross's football record... 0-11, only two close games, 3 point loss to a 2-9 team and a 6 point loss to a 3-8 team.  Outside of those two losses, average margin of victory was 58 2/3 points...  48.8 points total.  Outscored 129 to 666 :O...

Damon Hopkins
Jordan Daniel
Marcus Taylor II
Da'Marion Morris
Dominic Johnson

Those are the ones I've seen for today.

Quote from: CruFrenzy on November 19, 2025, 07:38:31 PMOnly key portal departures so far have been on defense, all in the secondary.

JJ Davis, Battle III and D Morris.

Not great but if we can keep everyone else we have shown a good track record of whipping athletes into shape on that side of the ball. As long as we don't lose any more key guys or defensive lineman (much harder to find elite DLINE guys). Also offense is still in tact so far... need everyone back there.

Hopefully Horton comes back, he looked pretty good at times, but gonna need rb1, rb2, possibly te1, te2, lt, rg.

I think BJ Stewart might have 1 more year of eligibility though.

Also wonder what happened to Davonte Nephew, thought he had transferred to umhb this year...

Quote from: HSUCowboy2015 on November 19, 2025, 09:20:09 AMIs it just me or has UMHB just had a mass flood of "portal" entries every year right after the season ends in the Harmon era? I know HSU goes through it to, just seems like it's much more broadcasted and on a larger scale than normal?

Not trying to take shots, just curious to see what the Crusader fans opinions are on it.

HSU has had its share of kids entering the portal as well.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on November 19, 2025, 10:23:39 AMIt seems to me that the UMHB problem is that they have bunch of talented kids who believe that their talents warrant a starting or very prominent role at UMHB and that is not being fulfilled by the system in place at UMHB. Their short term options, after all they are using years of eligibility, are to assess the immediate gain in the 2026 season at UMHB or look to another school. That school could be a D2, or another D3 with a glaring need.

Back in the day, circa Meat on the Hoof, they would just quit, realizing that their talent had exhausted   the capacity to provide playing time, either at a UMHB or at D2 Elsewhere State, or a scholarship UT Longhorn team giving 70 scholarships per year to suck up the talent from the TCU's SMU's, Rice's, Tech's and A&M's of the world, and thus D1 scholarship limits. In the Meat on the Hoof scenario, they would burn themselves out on Darrell Royal's practice field and never see a collegiate down of football they would have played at another SWC school.

I believe we are seeing a variation of this with the portal.

To me it is a mix of kids who aren't getting the playing time and who would've quit in the past and those who are legitimately good enough to get higher division offers.

I know Botts landed at rice and has played 9 games this year. Only 3 tackles but still a hell of a jump.

AJ Williams III was going to be a day 1 starter at NMSU before he got hurt.

TJ Rone is playing at least some at FCS Delaware state.

Kole Meador
Jamichael Cooper
Dominic Battle III
Malachi Johnson
Deuce Solomon
TJ Duncan
Sean Masia-Bryant

also hit the portal.

Seeing that supposedly already 799 D3/D2 kids in the portal.

Tracking UMHB Kids:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a5bzMA6WXdUjZf7-gqeNxzwB16nxvGeJ9oPuaHLUFh4/edit?usp=sharing

JJ Davis into the portal.

https://x.com/ctbj7/status/1990586768580878761?t=nbkiX-nudPmVjNA-tqIKkw&s=19

Quote from: zipmac22 on November 15, 2025, 02:18:33 PMWhat is the Temple radio station that does play by play for UMHB?

Too late but it is kmil 105.1.  Not sure why they don't have the listen live link on the schedule page anymore....

I was bored, 12 kids in the portal so far, most freshmen/sophomores:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a5bzMA6WXdUjZf7-gqeNxzwB16nxvGeJ9oPuaHLUFh4/edit?usp=sharing

Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 11, 2025, 10:11:50 PMHe was last year, lol.  https://cruathletics.com/sports/football/roster/dakarion-judge/11677

Don't see any stats for him this year, out injured most of last year, JV the year before.  Should have researched before posting this.

Kinda interesting he only has 2 years of elegibility left. Hope he finds a good home. Saw some good stuff and he reminded me of another slot wr from orange...

Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 10, 2025, 09:09:27 PM

Quote from: Etchglow on November 09, 2025, 10:48:29 PMNot a huge fan of Trinity's stadium because parking is always a pain to find and last time I was there you had to walk to the home side to use the bathroom.

Agree that parking is a pain, especially if you arrive late.  I still dream that we will spend some money on the visitor side for both facilities and to get the visiting team "locker room" out of that ancient pool changing room.  There are now usually portapotties on the visitor side, a food trailer, and you can use the restrooms in the Bell Center next to the baseball field behind the stands.  Not great but some improvement over years past.

There have been talks about building a fieldhouse, but it will probably come at the expense of the non-varsity tennis courts and/or some of the limited student parking next to the outdoor pool.

It is still loads better than TLU .  It shocked me the first time I went there and the team was setting up pop up tents so they didn't have to trek across campus during half time...

Quote from: crufootball on November 09, 2025, 07:16:37 PM

Quote from: Ron Boerger on November 09, 2025, 10:50:45 AMGenerally speaking, UMHB wants a bunch of teams above them in the Pool C chase to lose.  Trinity losing by itself doesn't elevate UMHB.

Some prognosticators say Trinity's in even with a loss since they're so high now, but I think UMHB fans are happy to see Trinity lose regardless

Maybe I am wrong but I think many UMHB fans think of Trinity as a worthy adversary (I know I do), so the only way I would hope for them to lose is if it does help us or we are playing you of course 

This, always a good game with Trinity. The only team I root for to lose no matter what is Hardin Simmons lol.

Not a huge fan of Trinity's stadium because parking is always a pain to find and last time I was there you had to walk to the home side to use the bathroom.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on November 09, 2025, 12:31:50 AMLet's see if a 5-2 vs D3 earns a Pool C bid for UMHB.

I'm pessimistic, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.