{"id":101447,"date":"2025-12-26T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:53:08","slug":"dan-lanning-claims-joey-mcguire-has-done-an-unbelievable-job-building-texas-tech-roster-with-nil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101447\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Lanning claims Joey McGuire has done ‘an unbelievable job’ building Texas Tech roster with NIL"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a spot in the College Football Playoff Semifinals on the line, No. 4 Texas Tech<\/a> and No. 5 Oregon<\/a> will clash in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Jan. 1. The Ducks are seeking their first appearance in the Semifinals since they made a run to the National Championship in the inaugural CFP (2014), while Texas Tech is seeking its first ever CFP victory.<\/p>\n

Both programs are great success stories of the Transfer Portal<\/a> era, as many players that will suit up for either Texas Tech or Oregon in the matchup began their careers elsewhere.<\/p>\n

High-level players such as Oregon quarterback Dante Moore<\/a> (UCLA<\/a>), Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez<\/a> (Virginia<\/a>), Oregon running back Noah Whittington<\/a> (Western Kentucky<\/a>), and Texas Tech wide receiver Caleb Douglas<\/a> (Florida<\/a>) have all made their way to their respective programs by way of the Transfer Portal and have been immediate impact pieces.<\/p>\n

Dan Lanning commends Joey McGuire and Texas Tech for mastering Transfer Portal<\/p>\n

This past offseason, Texas Tech hauled in 21 players from the Portal, earning the No. 1 spot in On3\u2019s 2025 College Football Team Transfer Portal Rankings<\/a>. Their class boasted an estimated $7 million in adjusted NIL value, more than almost any other program in the sport.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Ducks\u2019 clash with Joey McGuire<\/a>\u2018s Texas Tech program, Oregon head coach Dan Lanning<\/a> commended him on building such a great roster with their strong NIL resources. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s built a great roster,\u201d Lanning said on Monday<\/a>. \u201cCollege football is about adapting. This is obviously a program that\u2019s done an unbelievable job adapting and saying \u2018let\u2019s make our team the best it can possibly be\u2019. They\u2019ve done that this year. They deserve credit for how they\u2019ve evaluated. There\u2019s a lot of teams that take players out of the portal. There\u2019s not a lot of those teams that necessarily have success evaluating that talent, getting them to play together, and creating a team that does that. This is a team that\u2019s done that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Lanning touched on, mastering the Portal is a very thin line. Five of the top-ten transfer classes this offseason helped their programs reach the College Football Playoff (No. 1 Texas Tech, No. 3 Ole Miss<\/a>, No. 4 Oregon, No. 5 Miami<\/a>, and No. 10 Ohio State<\/a>), while three of the top-ten classes missed the postseason completely (No. 7 Auburn<\/a>, No. 8 North Carolina<\/a>, and No. 9 Rutgers<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The Orange Bowl matchup between No. 4 Texas Tech and No. 5 Oregon will surely be one of the most entertaining games in the entire College Football Playoff. Kick-off on Jan. 1 is scheduled for 12:00 PM on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a spot in the College Football Playoff Semifinals on the line, No. 4 Texas Tech and No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45024,36630,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-101447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dan-lanning-04-richmond","tag-joey-mcguire-89-crowley","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}