As a young Seattle Seahawk, John Yarno recalls lining up on a hash mark before games and rigidly holding his helmet in the crook of his left arm during the national anthem.

At its best, the transfer portal is something like alchemy, turning lead into gold – see Indiana and Heisman Trophy quarterback Fernando Mendoza.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Transfer portal season is about as dynamic as a tornado. However, Idaho’s new offensive and defensive coordinators voiced common themes of needing limited but specific help from the portal and expecting to have those needs addressed in a week or so.

MOSCOW, Idaho — Idaho football has found the man tasked with leading its defensive unit.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Ian Shoemaker, a veteran coach who boasts head-coaching experience in the Northwest and a history of success in the Big Sky Conference, has been named the new offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach for Idaho's football team.

With his first full season now in the books, Idaho Vandals football coach Thomas Ford Jr. is shifting quickly into offseason mode, conducting exit meetings, signing commits, working the transfer portal and looking to rebuild part of his coaching staff.

Reading the tea leaves in recruiting is always a fun but frequently frustrating endeavor. In looking for subtle tells about how the University of Idaho did, however, there is this: the Vandals had a class of 20 signed up by noon. These new Vandals want to be Vandals.

Following a standout season when he led the league in interceptions, Eastern Washington safety Jaylon Jenkins was named a first-team All-Big Sky selection on Wednesday, when the league announced its season accolades.

Matt Linehan is no longer the offensive coordinator of the Idaho football team.

A dispirited, disjointed and increasingly desperate Idaho team found itself at the mercy of Idaho State, which took consistent advantage of a short passing attack plus several long plays and limited the Vandals to a pedestrian 259 yards of offense for the game while amassing 404 of its own. The Bengals put Idaho in a virtually bottomless hole in the first half.

For a pair of teams that have not reached the playoffs and know their season is ending, Idaho’s game against Idaho State looks both forward to a better future and back to a year that might have been.