How bad will we be next year ?

With the portal and coaching changes who knows. Its a different era.

New OC and hopefully a healthy QB should help a bit. We'll lose Braelin and Thompson, but return everyone else on OL, so that's a positive. I expect Curne and Solomon Thomas to both fight for starting spots in 2026. We'll return the full RB room. Bauer will be gone, but we get the Green TEs back. The WR room will not look the same at all. Kyle Parker is the only guy getting significant snaps right now that I know we'll get back, and hopefully Nic Anderson returns as well. We have good talent at WR that will step up next year whether it's Francis, Billiot, Watkins, or someone like Destyn Hill. We'll likely go after at least 1 high end portal WR.

We'll lose a ton of talent on D and Baker is probably gone to be a HC. DTs should be fine next year. Reliford will be looking to have a contract year as our top DE. LB room will be overhauled, but I like Keys and Singleton, and Charles Ross and Keylan Moses seem like good talents. DBs actually may stay good. Spears may be stepping up to start where Haulcey is, and we should return Pickett and Woodland. There's good depth in the DB room thankfully.

Things are not about to get any easier. The coaching staff needs to lock the frick in and turn this season around before the program's momentum goes out the window.

We will probably go 11-1 with worse players. Who knows.