Portal Thoughts

It's a good thread. The portal seems as light this year as it has been since it truly started. In the amount of top players in it and the quality of players. I think the lack of coaching changes, the running out of covid years, and a possible at least slight change in mindset on it have led to that.

You ideally clearly want to build your team with high school recruiting and plug and play some portals guys in there to fill some holes or if you can get the rare elite guy who goes into the portal. QB will also now forever be transfer heavy given only one can play at a time anywhere so you're frequently gonna have good ones looking to transfer.

Unless you're a team like Ohio State last year, UW in 2023, Texas recently, etc, who has a national championship caliber base of HS signed players who just needs the right portal guys to get them over the edge, it seems like relying on the portal is a short-term gain but possible long term loss instead of just playing a HS signed player.