Texas Football: 3 things Tom Herman would love for Christmas
1) Christmas gifts for Texas football HC Herman
Retaining as much talent as possible next offseason
An overarching storyline regarding the NCAA Transfer Portal and the Longhorns next offseason will be what happens with the junior running back and former highly coveted four-star recruit Keaontay Ingram. A few weeks back, it looked like Ingram intended to enter the transfer portal entering next offseason after opting out of the rest of the season.
If that is to be the case for Ingram and the Longhorns next offseason, it would be yet another loss to the portal among a number of others leaving the Forty Acres. Herman saw the likes of freshman safety Xavion Alford, sophomore cornerback Kenyatta Watson II, and freshman quarterback Ja’Quinden Jackson, among others, enter the transfer portal in the last few months alone.
Losing Ingram would be detrimental to the depth in the running back room in 2021, especially if Texas doesn’t get Johnson in their signing class by National Signing Day in February.
Not only does Texas need to work on retaining potential transfers like Ingram, they need to prevent as many talented players leaving the program as possible in the near future. And they need to do their best to prevent decommitments to provide further detriment to the 2021 and 2022 recruiting classes.
Next. Transfer portal Christmas gifts for Tom Herman. dark
Herman and the Longhorns could use an offseason where they get a lot more benefit on the recruiting trail and out of the transfer portal than detriment. But Herman would have to do his best to revert course on the downtrodden results in the portal and on the trail for his program of late.