Completely agree.
The point is o-line production is a long term game. You can’t make it happen overnight.
It’s obvious that any P4 college FB program that plans to have a full roster and wants to compete effectively will have to use the portal each and every year…along with coming up with more $$$.
Doesn’t it make you weary, that the HC is not showing this much sense? It has become quite obvious to your point. It would at least give the fans and team the illusion of better days. This is the definition of insanity. Which inspires no one.
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Do you presume you could choose a better QB than Chriss from the portal? Nearly 95% of the transfers are roster rejects. Only a handful would play on another P4 team. If you truly intend to rebuild play and recruit Freshman. Do not recruit grown adults to only lose.
When you’re poor, relying on the portal is not a good way to build a program but then again, you can’t keep your really good players either so you’re screwed either way.
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Not exactly the portal but Bill Snyder made a good living off juco guys.
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As I heard one coach say, the difference in college football today, is you have to recruit your own players every year so they do not hit the portal.
Much easier to control 13 than 70 ish . . . . .
I think the portal is the only way you’ll be able to build a program these days.
Agree the Transfer Portal provides immediate help. Take OL. Unless you recruit a rare HS 5 star, it is usually best to redshirt the player, get him in the weight room, acclimate to college and college football, play them the second year, usually as a backup, and by the third year, he may be ready to start. That is the ideal chronology, but rarely works that way at UH. UH’s history in the Transfer Portal Era is to plug the leaks in the OL with transfers. Once you develop a player through your system and he is ready to contribute, you then need a generous NIL to keep him.
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Recruiting players out of high school
VS
Transfer Portal.
The same is true for new recruits out of high school. Sometimes they are as good as their rating sometimes they’re not.
Seems that 4 and 5 star players are more likely to pan out.
We are in unchartered territory here.
Every player is essentially now on a one-year contract. Schools with rich alumni can go to the portal and buy what they need. Other schools will try and build through HS recruiting, develop players, and watch them transfer somewhere else. Every school will need the portal, the question is how much reliance you have on it.
We are going to be a hybrid. Like many schools we will recruit and develop and buy/recruit through the portal. Some schools (Whorn) are going to be the New York Yankees and buy whatever they need. Other are going to be farm systems like the Oakland A’s. Most are in the middle.
You are already seeing the effect of NIL and the transfer portal. I believe the glory days of Alabama under Bear Bryant and Nick Saban are coming to a close. They are not a rich school and will not be able to buy replacements whenever and wherever they need like whorn. They will still be formidable, but not dominant. I think Oklahoma will regret moving to the SEC, selling their souls for SEC money.
History does indeed repeat itself. Scholarship limits were imposed in order to level the playing field. Now, we have NIL and the portal. The NCAA has not figured out how to handle that yet. In the interim, the rich schools will get richer and the other schools will compete as best they can.
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