Re: TNET: Notebook: Tigers physically beat down Gamecocks, portal in play for the Tigers

…it is TOTALLY about $$$$$$….nothing else. Yeah, we will hear the saltatory “great educational institution”, but these are just words without substance.

It all comes down to WHERE you want you ranking to fall depending on the size of your player payroll, i.e., Top 1-5 ($25M-$30M/year), Top 6-10 ($20M-25M/year), Top 11-15 ($15-$20M/year), Top 16-20 ($10M-$15M/year).

It is just a numbers game, and if you put up the appropriate amount of cash, then, with “good” coaching, you can easily see where you will fall in the rankings.

It will require some HARSH decisions relative to SCUTTLING sports that have to be fully subsidized by football revenue, e.g., lacrosse, softball, tennis, soccer, track & field, basketball (yes, even men’s basketball).

The teams that move fastest to a “Contractual Agreement” and players union will be the teams that get ahead of the curve and securing the cash and payroll needed to compete at the highest level.

The toothpaste is out of the tube at this point. There is no going back. Teams that FULLY embrace the new revenue model will benefit the most and fastest.

Clemson just has to decide if it wants to play the game this way at the Power 5 level. Else, MOVE DOWN to the lower ranks, Division II/III and get back to the true essence of the game.

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Re: His stance on the portal hasn't changed.***

Nov 30, 2023, 4:44 PM [ in reply to Re: His stance on the portal hasn't changed.*** ]

Dabo has indeed pursued top end players via the portal.

Same as he has pursued top end HS talent. As we all know, only a tiny fraction out of a large number of high end HS prospects end up picking Clemson.

With the portal, there are fewer high end / known performer players available. Instead of pursuing these high end portal players across all positions, we only pursue portal players for those positions where we are thin. This means that there are but a small number of players that we compete to get via the portal.

Probability means that a small percentage of ‘hits’ from a large pool of prospects means that a recruiting class can be filled with good players … as in via the HS player route.

That same probability for success, when applied to a small number of truly high end portal prospects that play the position where we need help, means that the number of portal players that actually end up coming here instead of MI or aTm or USC will be small.

We give out hundreds of offers to HS players for each recruiting class. We end up signing ~ 20 to 25 each year.

We give out maybe two dozen offers to portal players. Probably at the rate of 5% vs those of HS offers. Therefore, our chances of actually landing a top end portal player are small. That doesn’t mean that we don’t want portal players. It just means that we won’t be taking Fred Davis types or Paul Tchio types (with both ‘types’ representing highly rated HS prospects that did not end up proving themselves in the college game) just to placate fans who are caught up in star ratings.

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TNET: Notebook: Tigers physically beat down Gamecocks, portal in play for the Tigers