"Only kids we recruited" comes across as we don't want to do more work.
I agree that is, what is happening.
To MetryCajun's point, Louisiana can take advantage of this (albeit with more player movement) by starting off with 3-star players instead of 1 and 2-star players.
As long as the total roster limits remain, there is a new opportunity for Louisiana.
. . . you have already agreed that the ones we get with juice still left in them are poached . . . the ones who never had juice in them will never be productive . . . looks like all of the talent has been queezed out of the talent pool and we are left with what we are left . . . but the portal, the portal, the portal boss . . .
That is not what is happening.
The P5 is simply not going to replace the graduating 4-star, with an atrophic bench warming 3-star when they can poach a fully developed 2-star.
There is still talent to be found in the talent graveyard rejects, they just won't invest the time.
. . . good chances are that if you can't bump anyone for playing time, they are not worth wanting . . . anywhere . . . and if they are, we may get one season with them and they are gone . . . it takes a crap load of one season players to fill a team . . . and we can only have 85 . . .
You are thinking from a defeatist point of view.
First: Why would a school start a raw 3-star over a proven, experienced, 4-star and two other 4-star players ahead of them? They won't, they never will, so why sign with them in the first place.
I have been using the term "Talent Graveyard" for two decades because that is exactly what they are.
Now add the influx of proven 2-stars to their transfer roles and you have a unique situation of available 3-stars from high school and (raw) 3-star players being spit out the straw.
It takes work and a willingness to recruit players you thought you had no chance at when they were in high school.
Package the massive Jennings DT teammate that hit portal 2 days agoTrevor Etienne is Florida's 15th portal so far.
I stopped counting.Has to be well over 100 FBS RBs in portal now. Even more WR. Crazy #'s.
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