Do we care that we're currently 57th?

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A little. For a team that has some pretty glaring holes, it sure doesn't seem like this staff has operated in the portal with any sense of urgency. And before anybody says "yeah but Ole Miss..." just remember, Notre Dame is built largely on transfers and they're sitting in the semi finals. Not saying we have to build our whole team on transfers but we need to be eating from that trough the same as everybody else. Right now it feels like we're the "runt" of the litter, getting squeezed out.
 
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IndianaVol said:
Meh...I get it, higher ranked in portal transfer should equate to higher performance on the field, but if I recall wasn't Florida State like in number one or at least top 5 last year?
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I hope we are low in the portal rankings this year. We are trying to find a way to cut the plays since we are still over our roster numbers. If we take a bunch of portal players, we will have to cut some of our prized recruits we just signed. Hasn't the SEC already announced that they will not raise their scholarship numbers for the 2025 season?
 
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None of the players moving out have upgraded. 3 went to FSU, they aren't playing for anything relevant anytime soon. Squirrel decided to go with a QB from BC instead of Nico, that is all about the money. Maybe he saw the writing on the wall and felt he was going to get passed on the field. CJH focused on keeping Matthews and let the others go. Nichols has already moved on from Arkie to SMU. I thought Pittman was supposed to be giving him the training he was missing at UT. Not to many that have left UT lately have gone on to ball out anywhere else.
 
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VolMax said:
Does this fire up the NegaVols or do we just call On3 trash?

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Nope, the other alternative. Quantifying pluses and minuses ONLY in the portal is not the whole story. Our use of portal exits has us with 81 of 83 roster spots filled. We traded those 3 star guys for 15 4-5 star HS guys and 1 4 star portal guy. On top of that we added 3 cusp 4 3 star guys and a handful of staff target 3 stars. Not sure we took any late in process reaches.

That is a GREAT trade off in reality. We are 1 for 1 in the portal to date. Math is what it is with the 15 out 1 in portal only calculation. For us it is worthless.

Our first two new portal adds to get to 83 should be factored for one view of portal success, and the net of future losses and gains another. Limited use of portal might maximize our NIL budget. TBD.

Our small graduation losses and large HS class skews all the portal only net numbers.

Not sure anything but net roster change after HS and portal are worth the paper they are written on. Guess that would be ROSTER MANAGEMENT score.
 
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UT Hill Man said:
It will be harder to keep up the depth if more players are leaving via the portal than coming in, and most freshmen reqruits need time to develope.

A lot of top teams are using the portal better than we are, so we might be at a disadvantage.

I'll add this - the 18 players leaving UT would comprise a top 10 class just by themselves
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All 3* and one 4* doesn’t equal a top ten class last time I checked. Maybe a good roster for MTSU or Memphis.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
A little. For a team that has some pretty glaring holes, it sure doesn't seem like this staff has operated in the portal with any sense of urgency. And before anybody says "yeah but Ole Miss..." just remember, Notre Dame is built largely on transfers and they're sitting in the semi finals. Not saying we have to build our whole team on transfers but we need to be eating from that trough the same as everybody else. Right now it feels like we're the "runt" of the litter, getting squeezed out.
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Ummm.. that Notre Dame squad has a total of 6 transfers in it and 4 of them had hardly ANY results this season! Their QB by far was the biggest addition they made but 1 that was highly mentioned had 1 sack in the quarterfinal game but NONE during the season. So no, they were not built by the portal and even their additions didn’t have a huge effect on their season to this point except for 1 game.
 
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VolMax said:
Does this fire up the NegaVols or do we just call On3 trash?

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There needs to be a Roster Management ranking for the uninformed I guess.

Vols were at 81 and could land at 81-83. Signed 25 high school kids and lost 13 to the NFL or expiration date reached. That leaves a surplus of around 12-14.

Can't sign many more portal guys without telling some more kids to take a hike. It's a numbers game.
 
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