2022 Transfer Portal

[BGSU33]

Let’s face it - 2022 was our best chance to do anything if we were going to. We weren’t gutted by the types of transfers we’re losing right now and we returned a lot of experience. We played better than in 2021, but it wasn’t enough. We lost our best RB in Stewart and one of our top WR’s in Osborne before week 1, we lost arguably our best player on the entire team in Ferguson in week 2, and we didn’t make the jump offensively we needed to in order to make a real difference. It led to yet another losing season. A bowl win could have at least salvaged the year, but even that went down the tubes as another mobile QB again ate us up. The loss to an FCS team essentially cemented a losing season in the end. The highlight was beating a Finn-less Toledo team with little to play for. You think Toledo loses sleep over that after winning the MACC? In short, yes, it was a step forward kind of a season compared to the previous one. But it was one that was still filled with more failures than successes, and sadly, is going to be better than the season we’re in store for next year.

[hammb]

Not everyone in the MAC is losing kids like we are...Toledo, CMU, Miami...they've lost far fewer kids than we have. We're getting into Kent State territory and their coach left. I think you have to view this as yet anther indictment of the way the program is being run

Excellent point. And you need to add Ohio to that list. The Bobcats loses a few guys buried on the depth chart from year to year, but they don’t loses their best players like BG does. Rourke was the MAC Player of the Year for Ohio this year. He’ll be in Athens for two more years, so BG can forget about seeing the light of day in Detroit the next two season. But if BG had the MAC Player of the Year this season with two years of eligibility left, he’d be right into the portal right now. I guarantee it. BG simply can’t compete with Ohio’s player retention and it translates to what happens on the field as the series has swung way in favor of OU. Clawson spoke about what Ohio had put together and was doing years ago and they are STILL the same type of a program for the last 15 years! It’s remarkable. Aside from their hiccup season a year ago, they’re ALWAYS in contention for the MAC Championship and bounced right back and got back there again this season. We’ll never get back to what we want to be or even to Ohio’s level again losing players like this. Clawson’s assessment still rings true.

Just spent the day in Athens again Saturday. It's a miracle we ever get people to BG (or stay here) when places like Athens, OH are our peers.

I don't have a lot of regrets in life but going to BGSU because it was close and I grew up with the sports teams rather than spending 4 years in Athens (where I probably would have never left) is up there.

[mbenecke]

If we’re rebuilding next year, we need someone else to do it. I cannot accept a 1 step forward, 2 steps back approach. Not with this staff.

If we’re rebuilding, let someone else build it up. We’ve already seen this staff’s ceiling with a full rebuild.

Go get Andrew Sowder (Kent State OC), Gino Guidugli (Cincinnati OC), Matt Mitchell (GVSU HC) or Tony Annese (Ferris State HC) and see what they can do.

[BGSU33]

The AD should be able to connect the dots here…. We are bleeding players because they don’t believe in the scheme or the coaches or the prospects for next season…. It’s that simple. You may as well cut the cord now, since it is a year one rebuild again.

I’ve never really been sold on SL. Each passing year I have remained steady on that feeling. This was the season to change that, and it didn’t happen. I still held out hope he could change that perspective with trying to piggyback the step taken with what we could return for next year. But that just got ripped apart by what we’re seeing walk right out the door right now. Honestly, how in the hell are we ever going to win or contend in the MAC again getting gutted like this? You can’t rebuild when you can’t retain. Retaining is the key element in a rebuild, and we are seeing the exact opposite happen yet again.

[kdog27]

Honestly, how in the hell are we ever going to win or contend in the MAC again getting gutted like this? You can’t rebuild when you can’t retain. Retaining is the key element in a rebuild, and we are seeing the exact opposite happen yet again.

With our budget it’s a sad realization that we probably can’t

[BGSU33]

Not everyone in the MAC is losing kids like we are...Toledo, CMU, Miami...they've lost far fewer kids than we have. We're getting into Kent State territory and their coach left. I think you have to view this as yet anther indictment of the way the program is being run

Excellent point. And you need to add Ohio to that list. The Bobcats loses a few guys buried on the depth chart from year to year, but they don’t loses their best players like BG does. Rourke was the MAC Player of the Year for Ohio this year. He’ll be in Athens for two more years, so BG can forget about seeing the light of day in Detroit the next two season. But if BG had the MAC Player of the Year this season with two years of eligibility left, he’d be right into the portal right now. I guarantee it. BG simply can’t compete with Ohio’s player retention and it translates to what happens on the field as the series has swung way in favor of OU. Clawson spoke about what Ohio had put together and was doing years ago and they are STILL the same type of a program for the last 15 years! It’s remarkable. Aside from their hiccup season a year ago, they’re ALWAYS in contention for the MAC Championship and bounced right back and got back there again this season. We’ll never get back to what we want to be or even to Ohio’s level again losing players like this. Clawson’s assessment still rings true.

Just spent the day in Athens again Saturday. It's a miracle we ever get people to BG (or stay here) when places like Athens, OH are our peers.

I don't have a lot of regrets in life but going to BGSU because it was close and I grew up with the sports teams rather than spending 4 years in Athens (where I probably would have never left) is up there.

I 100% agree and I get blasted when I say the same thing on here (I don’t really care though because I know I am right). I have a degree from both places but make no mistake about it, BG falls way short in many ways. BG alums and fans are so tied up into measuring up against schools like Toledo when schools like Ohio are crushing BG in the ways we really should be worried about or focusing on like academics, campus appeal, student enrichment, growth and retention, etc. Who the hell cares about Toledo??? It’s our “rival” because of its proximity to Bowling Green. BFD….BG’s rivalry should be geared towards the schools it should aspire to be like and compete with both on and off the field, and not linked to one that just so happens to be close by. It’s nonsense and it detracts from what BG could be.

[jpfalcon09]

If we’re rebuilding next year, we need someone else to do it. I cannot accept a 1 step forward, 2 steps back approach. Not with this staff.

If we’re rebuilding, let someone else build it up. We’ve already seen this staff’s ceiling with a full rebuild.

Go get Andrew Sowder (Kent State OC), Gino Guidugli (Cincinnati OC), Matt Mitchell (GVSU HC) or Tony Annese (Ferris State HC) and see what they can do.

A majority of players are leaving for bigger opportunities. I'd argue the coaching staff is doing a good job at developing guys if this is the route they're choosing to take. Bigger programs want our players and those kids aren't going to stick around out of the goodness of their hearts. It sucks but it is what it is. This is the new normal until something changes. Football at this level is going to be mediocre every year going forward due to turnover.

Replacing the coach is honestly treating a symptom. If we want guys to stay then BG needs to get serious about NIL and seek to incentivize the best they can.

[guest44]

I wonder if losing a third of your starters to the transfer portal after year 4 came up in the meeting of the minds at Poco Piatti? It didn’t because that meeting was about the animosity toward Dino Babers. Animosity the way we should envy a coach “using” BGSU for results. So we tried to recreate Dave Clawson to satisfy the dinosaurs. They wanted assurance from a coach, who jumps jobs largely due to lack of success, would be at BGSU for x amount of years. They had it backwards from the beginning. 13-29 is 13-29 no matter how you twist it and how far you lower the standard. Times are changing and the dinosaurs better change with the times.

BGSU’s solution to NIL so far? Some BS Learfield template.

[Globetrotter]

Not everyone in the MAC is losing kids like we are...Toledo, CMU, Miami...they've lost far fewer kids than we have. We're getting into Kent State territory and their coach left. I think you have to view this as yet anther indictment of the way the program is being run

Who have we lost that wasn't a Covid Sr or a backup? Grant?

Broden has an offer from Texas AnM. He was gone.

[Globetrotter]

I agree that the coach isn't doing a great job and should be replaced. I think the offense is the biggest issue.

People are overblowing these transfers. These are backups or guys who were on Covid years. Some might even be back

[guest44]

Don’t worry folks….BGSU has a plan. It’s strongly worded tweets and retweets. That and hope Learfield provides a generic game plan for a cut. Problem is it’s the same generic game plan they offer everyone for a cut.

https://twitter.com/coachloefflerbg/sta ... d_S0DLeVJA

https://twitter.com/coachloefflerbg/sta ... d_S0DLeVJA

BGSU…always three steps behind.

[roguewarrior]

Don’t worry folks….BGSU has a plan. It’s strongly worded tweets and retweets. That and hope Learfield provides a generic game plan for a cut. Problem is it’s the same generic game plan they offer everyone for a cut.

https://twitter.com/coachloefflerbg/sta ... d_S0DLeVJA

https://twitter.com/coachloefflerbg/sta ... d_S0DLeVJA

BGSU…always three steps behind.

Hilarious! DARE to play on an offense that does not showcase or feed their best players, with no QB of the future rostered. DARE to play on a defense that we will put squarely behind the eight ball with poor field position every single series, where you have no chance of sustained success. DARE to be developed and relegated to the bench when we promise a transfer your spot.

It is so clear what needs to be done.

[jpfalcon09]

Those tweets are an embarrassment. Comes off like a spurned lover. Broden already has offers from major programs - Oklahoma and A&M just to name a few. Good for him. Scot knows next season is going to be a massive uphill battle. Shooting out stupid tweets isn't going to solve anything.

[TommyG]

If this guy gets an extension then we might need to start looking for a new AD…lol

[hammb]

Those tweets are an embarrassment. Comes off like a spurned lover. Broden already has offers from major programs - Oklahoma and A&M just to name a few. Good for him. Scot knows next season is going to be a massive uphill battle. Shooting out stupid tweets isn't going to solve anything.

The second one is especially embarrassing.

Sure, be proud of developing guys enough to move on. I'm not even entirely certain you shouldn't sell it to HS recruits at this point, "Come here, play right away in the MAC. Make some plays and you could move up to the power 5!" But WHY are you touting the fact that you're taking a bunch of kids that had no other scholarship offers? WHY are you making it sound like you're taking a shot at the kids moving on to better situations? Maybe look in the mirror and see why those are the kids you're landing...might help explain your abysmal overall record.

The replies to his tweets are a bunch of kids looking for offers trying to get their names/tape seen. Really kinda feels like he just needs to fill a roster out.

Of course, really a lot of coach twitter is this rah rah come here crap, so whatever.