Bear Down Wildcats

Is this his brother? I assume it is since John Fina is commenting on this post

84Cat wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:02 am Is this his brother? I assume it is since John Fina is commenting on this post

What position does he play?

tgrumpy2 wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:13 am

84Cat wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:02 am Is this his brother? I assume it is since John Fina is commenting on this post

What position does he play?

His twitter profile says offensive tackle

Yep. They brothers.

UA HOFer.

Oh a left tackle who's dad played here entered the portal? Interesting interesting...

I saw Roman sitting with John in the section where all the high school kids were. We were wondering who it was.

If reports are accurate and Tacario Davis has withdrawn from the portal...that's news. And I'm sure everybody will very vocally celebrate. Ditto for any good news from the Fina family.

TheCatInTheHat wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:18 pm If reports are accurate and Tacario Davis has withdrawn from the portal...that's news. And I'm sure everybody will very vocally celebrate. Ditto for any good news from the Fina family.

Sure looks like it.

https://247sports.com/Season/2024-Footb ... nkey=24087

If true, you have to give Brennan & Company their flowers for keeping most of our talented core intact. I know they had help from some of the other players but we don’t keep the likes of TD without a ton of effort on the part of the coaches and admin.

LOL!

To keep Tacario is big time. Brennan needed that badly.

Not just the coaching staff, but I imagine the players had a lot of influence on him.

Also the parents!

Chicat wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:33 pm If true, you have to give Brennan & Company their flowers for keeping most of our talented core intact. I know they had help from some of the other players but we don’t keep the likes of TD without a ton of effort on the part of the coaches and admin.

Ohana, bro.

Guys like Feef and TMac are holding the team together.

They and this team are the best recruiters any school could have.

I wonder if Brennan will give this guy a look.

Irish27 wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:57 pm I wonder if Brennan will give this guy a look.

It depends on his reason for transferring.

If its because he's not going to start for a bad asu team I would give him a hard pass.

Fina, on the other hand, I would be chasing hard.

He went to Servite.

Just ask Feef.

wyo-cat wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:16 pm

Chicat wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:33 pm If true, you have to give Brennan & Company their flowers for keeping most of our talented core intact. I know they had help from some of the other players but we don’t keep the likes of TD without a ton of effort on the part of the coaches and admin.

Ohana, bro.

Guys like Feef and TMac are holding the team together.

They and this team are the best recruiters any school could have.

Carter Bryant is trying his hardest too, he's out there on Twitter quote tweeting guys for basketball and football.

So Jedd was only able to get 3 guys to follow him?

That sounds pretty amazing

I bet TD has some epic battles going up against Tmac in practices. They might be the best competition against each other than they see in real games.

Alieberman wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 9:21 am So Jedd was only able to get 3 guys to follow him?

That sounds pretty amazing

That’s making my day.

I try to keep up with roster issues by maintaining a depth chart, and obviously these days it's a more active hobby than it used to be.

By my judgment, we've lost six portal transfers off our two-deep: Kevin Green, Jonah Coleman, and Joe Borjon on offense, and Bill Norton, D.J. Warnell, and Ephresians Prysock on defense. Note that Green and Warnell haven't landed anywhere else yet, but I still consider them gone. Six positions on my two-deep are now occupied by incoming portal transfers: Quali Conley, Michael Wooten, and Alexander Doost on offense, and Chubba Mae, Tre Smith, and Jack Luttrell on defense. You can argue all day long that the outgoing players were better, but that's not known, despite any attempts to compare pedigrees. Regardless, it's six-out and six-in where it matters most ... (you do the math.) It is disingenuous to bemoan young players recruited by a previous coach who choose to follow him and who were expected to take a while to climb the depth chart, while also denigrating the replacement of them with young-ish transfers who are also expected to take a while to climb the depth chart, and therefore "only provide depth."

Brennan & Co. have done remarkably well.

Nice breakdown! Certainly not the bloodbath many feared. Well done all the way around keeping so many quality kids in the Wildcat Family.

We also lost a couple of really good running backs to the NFL. I would like to see us replace one at least. Preferably a combination of the two. A big power runner with speed and some twtich that can catch passes. I know its asking a lot but fingers are crossed and I'm keeping the faith.

I think my biggest concerns are at RB since we have such little depth now and on the DL to replace Bill Norton. Seems like we're in pretty good shape everywhere else.

tgrumpy2 wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 1:16 pm We also lost a couple of really good running backs to the NFL. I would like to see us replace one at least. Preferably a combination of the two. A big power runner with speed and some twtich that can catch passes. I know its asking a lot but fingers are crossed and I'm keeping the faith.

Remember we got Speedy Luke. He’s looking jacked now.

This staff is going to exploit his speed. I got a feeling he’s gonna be another Fishy poor talent evaluation. Like Feef was.

Agree that RB depth is still an issue from graduated players, and also agree with Lev that Luke is a great change-up, but he's not built like an every down back. I was earlier responding to the attempted narrative that we're bleeding out via the transfer portal and in dire trouble from it. It looked like we had RB solved with UNM's Croskey-Merritt, but he's from Alabama, and Lane Kiffin managed to flip him to Ole Miss. Not sure how many difference-makers are possible at this point, but it's still an area of need, so no doubt they'll do what they can.

gouacats wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 1:22 pm I think my biggest concerns are at RB since we have such little depth now and on the DL to replace Bill Norton. Seems like we're in pretty good shape everywhere else.

DL actually not terrible, just need an edge or two

RB for a starter or biggest role RB (huge need and we probably need 2). Speedy is great but probably best as a change of pace guy.

OL for depth or a potential starter.

LB for depth.

DL for depth and co starters to keep the energy up while coming over the walls.

Are our backup QBs capable?

We're not there yet.

DJ Warnell is gone

I like DJ a lot but he just wasn’t great in coverage. He could really play the run game though and I think he will see plenty of snaps for the Hoosiers

Carcassdragger wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 3:44 pm RB for a starter or biggest role RB (huge need and we probably need 2). Speedy is great but probably best as a change of pace guy.

OL for depth or a potential starter.

LB for depth.

DL for depth and co starters to keep the energy up while coming over the walls.

Are our backup QBs capable?

We're not there yet.

The backup QB Dorman is an unknown, but he was highly rated out of high school. Do we have anyone other than walk-ons behind him?

gouacats wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 5:14 pm

Carcassdragger wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 3:44 pm RB for a starter or biggest role RB (huge need and we probably need 2). Speedy is great but probably best as a change of pace guy.

OL for depth or a potential starter.

LB for depth.

DL for depth and co starters to keep the energy up while coming over the walls.

Are our backup QBs capable?

We're not there yet.

The backup QB Dorman is an unknown, but he was highly rated out of high school. Do we have anyone other than walk-ons behind him?

Didn't we just get a guy from San Jose St. for 3rd string?

UAEebs86 wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 5:16 pm

gouacats wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 5:14 pm

Carcassdragger wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 3:44 pm RB for a starter or biggest role RB (huge need and we probably need 2). Speedy is great but probably best as a change of pace guy.

OL for depth or a potential starter.

LB for depth.

DL for depth and co starters to keep the energy up while coming over the walls.

Are our backup QBs capable?

We're not there yet.

The backup QB Dorman is an unknown, but he was highly rated out of high school. Do we have anyone other than walk-ons behind him?

Didn't we just get a guy from San Jose St. for 3rd string?

I think you're right...I forgot about that.

How many guys went with Nancen?

6-3 370 lb Defensive tackle in the transfer portal from BYU. If we could shave 40lbs off him.........maybe a rotation player for depth?

Great news everyone!

Postmaster wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 5:58 pm How many guys went with Nancen?

1 went with, then Norton later.

https://slapthesign.com/posts/notre-dam ... hwrfycn7mj

What's worse, he was shockingly bad against a pass rush. Overall, Fina had a PFF offensive grade of 37.3 over 790 snaps, which was also the worst offensive grade on the Bruins.

Fina's run blocking wasn't good, but it was a run-of-the-mill 53.1 grade. But against a pass rush? Fina had a grade of just 16.2 for the season. That was worse (quite a bit worse actually) than several running backs for UCLA last year. Worse than several wide receivers.

In total, Fina was credited with allowing 5 sacks, 11 quarterback hits and 26 quarterback hurries.

I would rather have Jacob Kongaika back

I'd take him just to get one over on Jedd.

dmjcat wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 8:53 pm

https://slapthesign.com/posts/notre-dam ... hwrfycn7mj

What's worse, he was shockingly bad against a pass rush. Overall, Fina had a PFF offensive grade of 37.3 over 790 snaps, which was also the worst offensive grade on the Bruins.

Fina's run blocking wasn't good, but it was a run-of-the-mill 53.1 grade. But against a pass rush? Fina had a grade of just 16.2 for the season. That was worse (quite a bit worse actually) than several running backs for UCLA last year. Worse than several wide receivers.

In total, Fina was credited with allowing 5 sacks, 11 quarterback hits and 26 quarterback hurries.

How many of those were in the Arizona game?

Grad transfers gave an extra day to utilize the portal.

Fina should be a guard, not a tackle but not sure is is better than Leif and he is not better than Moe for sure. Fifth year probably wants to play and I don’t see where he starts on our line

dmjcat wrote: Mon May 06, 2024 1:18 pm

Strange trade but hopefully it works out.