Incoming portal players

Sep 25, 2023, 11:59 AM

Teams with the most incoming portal players
#1 Colorado had 48 incoming portal players (the most of any school) and got its butt absolutely handed to them by Oregon Saturday.
#2 Arizona State has only won 1 game this year (against a total nobody).
#3 SMU is 2-2 with wins over a couple of high school level teams. Texas State is #4 and is at 2&2 with no wins of consequence.
#5 Indiana U is 2-2 with wins over powerhouses like Akron and Indiana State.
#6 Lousiville is a reputable football school..is the first one on the list with a winning record, but they have yet to play a ranked team.
#7 is the heralded SEC team of the Auburn Tigers...they are unranked and just lost to unranked Texas A&M
We could go on.
Then we could look at DJU...aka Oregon State that finally played a ranked team and lost.

I think the portal is not all that it is cracked up to be. It is not necessarily going to make a great program greater and isn't really going to help a lower program that much. It basically recirculates players who were not doing that well, to begin with with a few exceptions...but they are just that exceptions. The Radler and Caleb Williams transfers are pretty rare.

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Re: Incoming portal players

How the portal is used matters...

If you use it to throw favor schollies to a coaching legend's great grandson's nephew's uncle's child to come in a never see the field of play...............it's not going to benefit your team AT ALL.

If you make a concerted full court press effort to utilize the portal as a true TALENT RESOURCE to impact your team with real gamechanging "upgrades" then your team benefits.

Colorado has tripled their wins already from last year.........their talent was scum level last year.

Spencer Rattler has made South Carolina better and has accounted for wins that they wouldn't have had by having their secondary option at QB. They don't beat us without him last year.

FSU DOES NOT BEAT CLEMSON if you take away their portal players.

IT'S PART OF THE GAME NOW........it's an extension of recruiting............gotta utilize it.

Clemson doesn't need to use it to the extent that Colorado or even FSU used it, but 2-3 gamechangers would've made a massive difference this year.