Bear Down Wildcats

arizonawildcats wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:46 pm

phxcat23 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:57 pm And a follow up…

Alieberman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:28 am It's never a bad idea to pull out

cerec_cat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:54 am wonder if SJSU fans are cussing us out?

Merkin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:06 am SJSU only averages about 16,000 attendees per game. Not that many people to get pissed.

Besides, the University of Arizona can't contact any other teams' players until they put their name into the portal. However, players can contact other teams at any time.

So if a player does transfer from SJSU to UA, it is all on the player.

I can't keep up with all the NIL rules either, but NIL Collectives cannot contact non-transfer portal players either.

That's why the stories regarding Alabama contacting Fifita and T-Mac seem really odd since that is tampering, unless they contacted Alabama first.

arizonawildcats wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:51 am Scheer mentioned DL Tre Smith as a possible transfer from SJSU. 66 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, and 6.5 sacks this season. He's from Mesa and his position coach is now at UA.

arizonawildcats wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:49 pm

arizonawildcats wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:51 am Scheer mentioned DL Tre Smith as a possible transfer from SJSU. 66 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, and 6.5 sacks this season. He's from Mesa and his position coach is now at UA.

Officially in the portal.

arizonawildcats wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 4:09 pm

Fishclamps wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:09 am Not a surprise, hes a Nansen guy

dmjcat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:18 am

Fishclamps wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:09 am Not a surprise, hes a Nansen guy

Our interior DL depth has now been decimated.

We lost Manoa and Sio Noa (can't spell or prounounce the rest) to graduation and Kongaika defected to the Sun Gerbils.

With Savea gone we are now down 4 DL bodies. We have signed only 1 player capable of playing immediately (Chubba Mae).

Time for the UA to hit the transfer portal for bodies

TheCatInTheHat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:35 am D-Line depth is a legitimate concern. I've got Bill Norton (6-6 325), Chubba Maae (6-2 345), Isaiah Johnson (6-1 300), Taitai Uigalelei (6-4 285), and Keanu Mailoto (6-4 275). We also have Isaiah Ward, Sterling Lane, and Russell Davis as tall edge rushers in the 210 to 220 lb range. There's freshman Kaho Tuihalamaka (6-4 330), but I wouldn't want to count on a true freshman in the trench wars. We seem to have a number of edge rusher types, and there a lot of it seems to come down to weeding through trying to find the necessary speed and desire. But in the interior line, you need mass and depth to keep them fresh, which we had to an unusual extent for an Arizona team this past season, with pretty positive results. Hard to get, though.
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My worry is quarterback depth. We have Two......yea only two scholarship QBs and we're basically one really hard sack away from being in deep trouble.

TheCatInTheHat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:27 pm Yeah, also sadly true. I'm assuming Brayden Dorman's the backup. Is Cole Tannenbaum not on scholarship? Regardless, as good as Noah is, he's small and wears a target. He's compact and seems to protect himself fairly well, but if somebody really wants to go helmet-to-helmet, body slam, or if he just gets involved in an awkward situation and gets hurt, there's zero experience from here or anywhere else.

tgrumpy2 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:20 pm

TheCatInTheHat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:27 pm Yeah, also sadly true. I'm assuming Brayden Dorman's the backup. Is Cole Tannenbaum not on scholarship? Regardless, as good as Noah is, he's small and wears a target. He's compact and seems to protect himself fairly well, but if somebody really wants to go helmet-to-helmet, body slam, or if he just gets involved in an awkward situation and gets hurt, there's zero experience from here or anywhere else.

Cole Tannenbaum is the only other QB shows up on the roster. I don't know what happened to Dorman.

arizonawildcats wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:03 pm

dmjcat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:53 pm Visiting the UA on friday. 2nd team all MWC, but on paper looks 3 inches short and about 30 lbs too light to play in a P5 conference

https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/new ... soane-toia

dmjcat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:19 pm This one would hurt. Scheer thinks we have a chance to get him back

If both Prysock/Davis leave our secondary will be as decimated as the DL.