If a team sucks, keeping the players isn't a good thing. Nor is keeping the coaches, but that's a different discussion.
So we should get rid of the returning starters from a 5-8 team, but KEEP the guys who couldn’t beat them out? The majority of the guys in the portal are transfers in, not HS guys.
Yeah, it's a double edged sword. You're not losing potential starters/key contributers to bigger programs, but why are you bringing in so many players that can't play at this level? It seems like all the guys coming in this portal season *so far* are higher level players than in the past for Lebby. It shouldn't take 3 years to get to that point. I suspect we'll start to see the camp bodies coming in just because you need to SO MANY players, but so far we're seeing P4/G5 players who can play.
Look at where these kids end up landing. Jimothy will end up at a good school, but the rest of them will be at USM, Memphis or Delta State.
But we're not seeing players come in at the positions we need. We've brought in one OL and one DL so far. That's not going to cut it.
Sounds like there’s not a lot of good OL and DL in the portal this year. Someone correct me if I heard wrong (not that I have to worry about that around here
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There never really is, or so I’ve been told. The good ones are made happy where they are, and everyone wants them. We should’ve been stacking high schoolers and developing them. You can do that with oline. They understand that. Lebby’s idea of continuously portalling oline is not a got philosophy. Or hasn’t been to this point. He also needs to portal in a new coach for them big uglies.Sounds like there’s not a lot of good OL and DL in the portal this year. Someone correct me if I heard wrong (not that I have to worry about that around here
I think it's pretty safe to say no one we're losing this year is going to go on to be all-conference in a P4 league. Now last year, we did have a couple we lost that hurt at WR, but we did a really good job of replacing them. If you look at the list of most transfers, the one thing the 6 schools with the most transfers have in common is they all had disappointing seasons (and 3 of them fired their coaches). We're keeping the players we want and need to keep this year. And losing a lot of good attrition. Of course that good attrition is due to a lot of bad recruiting by Lebby in the last couple of years, if he can't do better we'll have another bad season next fall. But so far, the incoming portal class looks OK. Not great, but better than what we're losing.Yeah, spend all year or years developing, and teaching them your system so they can go end up be all-league somewhere else.
But let’s keep the ones that started and played when they got boat raced by wake forest’s walk-ons.
True. I'm just going off what's come in so far. We've traded FCS/Juco players for players coming from the P4.
Can’t wait until Year 6 of the Lebby Error! That‘s when his offense will really hit on all four cylinders!***Lemme guess….. now Lebby needs another year because there weren’t any quality linemen this go around? Trust the process, it just takes time?
I saw where we ranked 3 in the SEC with 30 portal guys
For the most part, we’ve kept the ones we wanted to keep. Agree about Mitchell & Lewis but you’re never going to keep all the ones you want to. If we’re going to lose a couple those are a lot better than some we are keeping.
To me it shows that we’ve haven’t recruited well in state for several years and that with our portal hauls we don’t have the scouting department necessary to evaluate and contact the amount of players we need to improve our roster.
