Do we care that we're currently 57th?

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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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Borderline top 50 class. Nowhere close to top 10.
 
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DaddyChad said:
Portal rankings don’t mean a damn thing. There’s maybe a handful of players that make real impact that teams grab up. Tennessee has done pretty well in the portal the past few years. I’m impatient but I think in the past they’ve done it the right way.
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We need some help at OL, receiver, and maybe RB on offense for sure.
 
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The plan for Heupel isn’t to be a portal school. He does focus more on high school guys. He’s not going to take “1 year guys looking for a payday”.

If you want that, ole Miss has season tickets going on sale
 
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wmcovol said:
The plan for Heupel isn’t to be a portal school. He does focus more on high school guys. He’s not going to take “1 year guys looking for a payday”.

If you want that, ole Miss has season tickets going on sale
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Not only that; but the guys we have got, we’ve done really well with.

Pili, ONL, McCoy, those are all high end players that no one expected much from
 
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ftsandersvol said:
You know the system is out of whack if you have to re-recruit your own players. The only thing college football is missing now are trades between teams.
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Have you ever changed jobs before? Colleges could fix this by paying the players directly but they want to keep all the football revenue for themselves, since they are run like greedy corporations.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
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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Why don't we just bring in a few players as walk on and have NIL deal pay their tuition? It is a way around the scholarship limit. Scholarship limits can be useless now.
 
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Portal ranking can really be overated and misleading. It’s not like we need 20 from the portal. We are recruiting where we need the help more than anything else. Some folks crack me up thinking big portal numbers mean some overnight instant success. GBO
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
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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I like your outlook on the transfer portal. It seems to me like people want to view players lost to the portal through a W/L binary lense when it's more aptly a case of roster management.

E. Herring may have been a portal win for Tiger-High, but that's no transitive loss for us.

I don't know if A. Nichols & G. Mincey are regarded as wins by AR & KY, but they probably got more playing time than had they stayed with us. In terms of roster management, I'll take L. Heard's potential and remaining eligibility as long as he keeps improving.

Tyler Baron had a decent year for Miami. His production was in-line with what he did for us. He had a couple of huge games on the stat sheet and a was a steady contributor for the Canes. I'll take where we're at with Joshua Joseph's production and development in terms of roster management.
 
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The portal will open again this year. Might be a good idea to have space for a few impact players who become available.
 
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