7 Big Ten programs have had 15 or less players enter the transfer portal (Winter + Spring)

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I'm not sure it is a list you want to aspire to being on. To be the best football team you can be you need to replace the guys who are not going to contribute on game day at some point. We seem to add about 25 recruits and 10 transfers each year from memory....that's 35 guys. 4 X 35 is 140...not sustainable without guys leaving.
 

60's Guy said:
I'm not sure it is a list you want to aspire to being on. To be the best football team you can be you need to replace the guys who are not going to contribute on game day at some point. We seem to add about 25 recruits and 10 transfers each year from memory....that's 35 guys. 4 X 35 is 140...not sustainable without guys leaving.
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On the flip side, the team is keeping the players who will contribute to its success.
 

60's Guy said:
I'm not sure it is a list you want to aspire to being on. To be the best football team you can be you need to replace the guys who are not going to contribute on game day at some point. We seem to add about 25 recruits and 10 transfers each year from memory....that's 35 guys. 4 X 35 is 140...not sustainable without guys leaving.
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Additionally, more players hit the portal during the season. The numbers work out in the end.
 

60's Guy said:
I'm not sure it is a list you want to aspire to being on. To be the best football team you can be you need to replace the guys who are not going to contribute on game day at some point. We seem to add about 25 recruits and 10 transfers each year from memory....that's 35 guys. 4 X 35 is 140...not sustainable without guys leaving.
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You need to subtract those who are out of eligibility, leave to enter the portal or leave for other reasons each of those four years. Gopher roster is usually around 100 players on a yearly basis.
 


When you are a developmental program, you want kids to stay that have the potential to grow. The only kids you want to leave are ones who haven't shown the ability to develop and don't look like they will ever contribute at this level. So being on the lower end of those that transfer out is right where we should be.
 

gophernut1 said:
When you are a developmental program, you want kids to stay that have the potential to grow. The only kids you want to leave are ones who haven't shown the ability to develop and don't look like they will ever contribute at this level. So being on the lower end of those that transfer out is right where we should be.
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Well said. The quality of the players leaving in the portal is way more important than the number of players leaving. You want the guys who are buried on the depth chart and unlikely to ever see the field to transfer out. But you also don't want to see your depth torpedoed by guys leaving because injuries happen.

We ran into that at the LB position last year when we lost some guys who would have provided depth at the LB position and then we dealt with injuries to the guys on the roster. Forced us to rely on young guys who weren't ready.

Overall the portal has worked out pretty well for football but it has definitely caused some depth issues that would not normally have been a problem in the pre-portal insanity days.
 

60's Guy said:
I'm not sure it is a list you want to aspire to being on. To be the best football team you can be you need to replace the guys who are not going to contribute on game day at some point. We seem to add about 25 recruits and 10 transfers each year from memory....that's 35 guys. 4 X 35 is 140...not sustainable without guys leaving.
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You shouldn’t have a ton of kids on the roster that will never contribute at some point in the first place, but yes it definitely helps to churn out the ones that don’t seem to be on track.
 

The Blue Bloods are always going to have the most players enter the transfer portal year after year. When all you do is recruit four and five star kids, they expect to play ASAP. Meaning, they are always going to have a ton of people leaving thinking they can go start ASAP at a school without as many 4 and 5 star recruits.
 



PJ has been doing a good job of managing the roster was my point. We lost Bucky and unexpectedly a couple of linebackers but the majority of the departures have been guys who have not played.
As long as we don't lose many guys we want to keep, the number of departures is what it is. Ideally we recruit all playmakers but if we did some of them would leave because we didn't have enough playing time.
Don't think with the incoming portal availability, if you can attract guys, that it matters very much if you have 15 outgoing or 20 guys leave who don't play... is what I'm saying.
 

MNVCGUY said:
Well said. The quality of the players leaving in the portal is way more important than the number of players leaving. You want the guys who are buried on the depth chart and unlikely to ever see the field to transfer out. But you also don't want to see your depth torpedoed by guys leaving because injuries happen.

We ran into that at the LB position last year when we lost some guys who would have provided depth at the LB position and then we dealt with injuries to the guys on the roster. Forced us to rely on young guys who weren't ready.

Overall the portal has worked out pretty well for football but it has definitely caused some depth issues that would not normally have been a problem in the pre-portal insanity days.
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The Gophers aggressively recruiting quality in-state and neighboring state players is a good recruiting strategy. They will remain with the Gophers and develop if they are good.

The Transfer Portal is what it is. The Gophers will lose some non-impact players deep in the depth chart. What hurts are the experienced ones that can help the following season.

P.J. Fleck has been able to replace most of those players through the Transfer Portal in many instances with better players. What is worrisome is depth.
 

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