Sategna definitely has room to improve his draft stock, but he undoubtedly would have been drafted, and had he entered the portal, he would have drawn interest from every team in the country.
My main point is that it's basically free agency with one year contracts in college football now, so it's silly to only look at portal additions and not celebrate retention. Texas added some excellent skill position players, but they also basically lost their entire RB room and two of their top three WRs.
We've beaten this to death, so I'm not going belabor it too much more. He was good enough to make the CFP this year, and if not for bizarre ST blunders, we likely win our first round game for the first time in program history. I don't think he's a superstar, but he was also playing through injury and had a mediocre at best supporting cast, which improved at every position group. Potentially a dramatic improvement with some position groups.
. There are definitely a lot of mixed opinions, but I don't know if we have better options going into 2026. If we can at least upgrade the backup QB position, that might push Mateer a bit. We also have to be realistic about how much money a starting QB in the portal will cost. I doubt OU can afford two QBs making in the millions of dollars.
