I'm a big Forbes fan and I've acknowledged that his transfer class for 2021-22 was Mount Rushmore levels with Williams coming from Oklahoma being ACC POY and LaRavia from Indiana State being 2nd team All-ACC and an eventual 1st rounder.
In their "secret scrimmage" they beat The OSU by 10 with a starting squad that includes grad transfer from Florida, a junior transfer from Delaware and another junior transfer from Kansas State. The moral of the story is WF will be competitive again as they reloaded with transfers. Here is the kicker ... none of these guys got any real NIL $$$s. They are all guys who understood they were not getting minutes at whatever schools they were at and wanted the opportunity to start in arguably the best conference in America and play for a coach who can get you to the next level.
You absolutely need to build based on recruiting, but teams like WF are playing the portal game ccorrectly. For BC, Post and TJ are good parallels.
I think the same thing holds for CFB ... there is no reason why BC can't pull olinemen when they are in the market and can tell a guy he is basically going to be the starting RT (as an example).
In their "secret scrimmage" they beat The OSU by 10 with a starting squad that includes grad transfer from Florida, a junior transfer from Delaware and another junior transfer from Kansas State. The moral of the story is WF will be competitive again as they reloaded with transfers. Here is the kicker ... none of these guys got any real NIL $$$s. They are all guys who understood they were not getting minutes at whatever schools they were at and wanted the opportunity to start in arguably the best conference in America and play for a coach who can get you to the next level.
You absolutely need to build based on recruiting, but teams like WF are playing the portal game ccorrectly. For BC, Post and TJ are good parallels.
I think the same thing holds for CFB ... there is no reason why BC can't pull olinemen when they are in the market and can tell a guy he is basically going to be the starting RT (as an example).
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