LOGAN — The spring transfer portal window, to put it mildly, wasn’t the best of times for Utah State football and its head coach Blake Anderson. After weathering the winter transfer portal almost spectacularly, losing only two players from the two-deep depth chart — Devin Dye and Ralph Frias — the spring window saw around five expected rotation players or starters depart the program, most of whom were enticed away by NIL offers from other schools. With the transfer window closed, the damage is pretty much done, but it’s still a solid amount of damage. Approximately 47 players from last year’s team have departed, either through graduation or the transfer portal. For reference, the 2022/summer of 2023 offseason ended up with 46 departures. Ending up with even more attrition (and mind you that 47 isn’t including a handful of players who transferred to USU in the winter window only to leave in the spring) than the 2022-23 offseason is a bad sign on its face. Attrition nearly crippled Utah State’s 2023 season as it spent most of the offseason simply trying to field a roster. Anderson would cite these offseason losses repeatedly during the team’s tough stretches up to and