Former Portland State offensive lineman D'Angelo Titialii shares why he decided to enter the NCAA transfer portal.
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00:00 Talk about if you could, kind of what was your process coming into that visit?
00:04 And did you expect that offer to come?
00:06 Cause I know, I don't believe you had the offer before the visit, correct?
00:09 No, I didn't have the offer before.
00:11 Um, so like as soon as I got into the portal, um, coach BC called me later that
00:18 night and he was like trying to figure out a way for me to get up there.
00:23 And he told me to come up Thursday.
00:25 I was low-key excited.
00:27 I was very excited.
00:29 You know, it was back home.
00:30 I'm a home kid, you know, from Washington.
00:33 So like, you know, committing there, getting that offer and then committing
00:37 like right there and then, you know, it was just none but a dream for me.
00:41 I can't wait.
00:43 Very excited for it.
00:45 Did you, did you have a sense that it was coming?
00:49 Because I know obviously when you come up for a visit like that, you would
00:52 assume the coaches are probably gonna have that offer coming for you.
00:55 But was that kind of a leap of faith saying, okay, I'm going to take this
00:58 trip and just let whatever happens happen?
01:01 Yeah, for sure.
01:02 It was a leap of faith.
01:03 Um, yeah, it was a leap of faith.
01:08 I didn't know what to expect when entering.
01:10 So like having all this like love from different schools was very great.
01:16 But as soon as UW called, that's when, you know, I had to come back home.
01:20 And so who made the call first?
01:23 Was it Alfonso Tuputala or Brandon Carroll and the coaching staff?
01:27 Uh, Brandon Carroll.
01:28 And then I got on the phone with my, my brother, Alfonso Tuputala.
01:32 And so it was just kind of, what was that first conversation like?
01:37 Um, what was the coach Carroll that reached out first or was it coach Fish?
01:41 Uh, coach Carroll.
01:42 It was kind of shocking to be honest.
01:46 I didn't have my number or not.
01:47 So, you know, when I, once I seen the 206 number, I was like, oh yeah, this might be
01:53 This might be.