Thought I'd construct a separate bunch of posts regarding the portal and offseason. Will update when I can.

Updated Date: 3/25/24
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Ohio:

Quinn Corna (walkon)
IJ Ezuma

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Western Michigan:

B-Artis White
Jefferson Monegro
Seth Hubbard
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Central Michigan:

Aidan Rubio
Derrick Butler
Jemel Davis
Markus Harding
Paul McMillan IV
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Eastern Michigan:

Julius Ellerbe
Tyson Acuff (Hugeeee loss for them)
Conner Serven
John McGriff
Derick Pranger
Andrew Wells
Javante Randle
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Buffalo:

Kanye Jones
Jonnivius Smith

RECEIVED Noah Batchelor from Maryland
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Ball State:

Trent Middleton, Jr
Micah Bell (walkon)
Quincy Adams
Jalin Anderson

RECEIVED Payton Sparks from Indiana (grass isn't always greener on the P5 side..)

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Northern Illinois:

Zarique Nutter
Xavier Amos
Zion Russell
Yanic Konan Niederhauser
Will Lovings-Watts
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Toledo:

Ben Wight
Tyler Cochran
Ra'Heim Moss
Dante Maddox, Jr
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Kent State:

Reggie Bass
Jalen Sullinger
VonCameron Davis
LA Hayes
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Bowling Green:

Rashaun Agee
Ejay Greer
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Burrito Buggy NIL money ran out so he's just going straight to "The Association".

Our roster typically has room for 2 walk-ons, right? Is it possible that when a walk-on enters the portal could it mean that the walk-on spot is no longer available on our roster? It could be a nice way for a walk-on to keep playing the sport at a lower level.

Yep this all but confirms Alex will be a walk-on. I even alluded to Corna possibly being the odd man out once Alex was coming in.

So our walk-ons are Estis, Boals and Alex Evans.

Means we have 2 open scholarships currently. 3 out (Hunter, Brown, Ezuma) plus unused scholarship and 2 in (Ayden Evans, Burris).

IMPORTANT:

Tyler Cochran and Reggie Bass are now in the portal.
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Watch both end up at Akron with Groce.

With NIL, having this limit is a big deal. Lots of bigger football programs have a setup for good walk-ons where the NIL deal just so happens to be equivalent to the cost of tuition and related expenses.

Moss was solid but Toledo losing Ben Wight is a huge loss.
(Place sarcastic laugh here).

Kent's Sullinger portaling.

The MAC was awful this year and now decimated by top teams losing their best players.

How does the conference get better when this is going to happen every year?

Well...we've been poached as well in previous years and I have a feeling it won't just be Quinn Corna as the only Bobcat in the portal.

How much of our roster should we be paying to retain?

Clayton, yes. AJB's injury makes him less of a target. Who else would to expect to be in very high demand? We were a semi-finalist in a very low ranked conference.

Mitchell, Hadaway & I think Elmore James wasn't 100% and will look good next year. We really want to keep those 5 guys. We may be sort of lucky in that they are all good enough to be good players in the MAC but not good enough to play much for a big time program. I suspect that Boals would like to keep Ike Cornish and Ajay Sheldon, but with not a lot of scholarships available for portal use, he probably wouldn't pull his hair out. I doubt Wiznitzer is going anywhere. Last year we really needed an experienced big but I wonder if getting a player similar to Jaylin Hunter isn't a more realistic goal for next year.

Their board says he has a shoulder injury.