Fleck says MN is putting much greater emphasis on recruiting and developing high school athletes than through Portal

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gopher-revolution said:
More teams may be jumping on the Indiana model and trying to build through the portal, which could possibly leave more talent to be found in at the high school level?
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And when they are developed Indiana and alike’s come along and poach them.
 

I don't think this would mean the portal wouldn't be a big part of the program. But programs that don't have the high NIL budget, this has to be the way. Recruit, develop and portal. Create a program where players largely want to stay. I think that is where it is right now. Lots of guys could have left for more money but chose to stay. Then use the portal to fill in the gaps where needed.

Focusing on the portal year after year with limited NIL is not sustainable IMO. The top programs with the big bucks can reload every year through the portal. Minnesota (and almost everyone else) cannot.
 

I think every one glosses over how many now all star players Indiana had on that team that followed the coach from JMU. these were the guys that were never highly sought after. Heck one of them won the national championship for him. there is still room for a player being developed this might play out in our favor.
 


GophersInIowa said:
Like Anthony Smith and Darius Taylor? Gonna always lose some but if you create a good development program that puts guys in the NFL, you'll be able to keep guys for less money.
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honestly the thought of the NFL for lots of players is becoming less and less important.
 


acemac said:
honestly the thought of the NFL for lots of players is becoming less and less important.
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Why do you say that? I know players aren't as anxious to get to the NFL with the money they can make in CFB but I still think making it to the NFL is still a big goal of many players.
 

MNVCGUY said:
I don't really bother trying to compare our situation to places like Oregon because they are completely different (this was true before the big chages of the last few years as well).

The reality of college football is that there are going to be the handful of top teams that are competing at a different level then most of the rest. The new landscape has shifted that some and allowed a team like Indiana to join the club but it is still a pretty small group of big spenders and much as we would love to be it is highly unlikely that we ever join that particular club.

We live in that huge jumble of teams in that next tier below the top teams. Trying to figure out a way to assemble a roster good enough to get into the playoff from time to time.
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My point being, teams like the Gophs might be able to strip off some highly rated HS players if losing their expected early playing time to portal players becomes a trend.
 

Nothing wrong with this approach for a program like Minnesota.

Need the team to be competitive on a yearly basis and spend the NIL money wisely to keep the majority of players interested enough to stick around.
 
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GophersInIowa said:
Why do you say that? I know players aren't as anxious to get to the NFL with the money they can make in CFB but I still think making it to the NFL is still a big goal of many players.
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I just think that leaving college with 5-8 mill in your pocket makes the NFL much less of a need
 



gopherphil said:
And when they are developed Indiana and alike’s come along and poach them.
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Maybe one super-predator team might poach one player a year from a team that is funded at the Gophers' level (about $18M, mostly in House settlement B1G revenue sharing). The math just isn't there for wholesale poaching. The 15 or so super-predator teams have roster limits. And they already have plenty of very highly-skilled top players on their rosters. They don't need to poach much, and they simply don't have the roster space to poach much. And a significant part of their poaching efforts are going to be to pry "lateral" transfers out of competing super-predators. The only two real losses purely for money the Gophers have had are Bucky Irving and Koi Perich, both to Oregon. I don't count Phillip Daniels because he essentially went home to play for the home state team (as a depth piece) that didn't want him out of high school ... and he ended up surprising everybody at Ohio State by winning a starting job. Maybe there were a few other pure money plays that resulted in top-producing Gopher players transferring up stream, but they are not jumping to mind.
 

acemac said:
honestly the thought of the NFL for lots of players is becoming less and less important.
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Yes, a lot of good players are staying in college an extra year (at the top-paying schools) for the $$$. This is another factor clogging up the rosters of top-15 schools and pushing more 4* and higher rated 3* HS recruits to places like Minnesota. We get to see more talent. Maybe we lose some of it down the road, but we keep a lot of it because there just isn't enough roster space (or uncommitted dollars) at the top 15. There are two sides to each coin. PJ is looking at and inclining his thinking toward the bright side.
 

acemac said:
I just think that leaving college with 5-8 mill in your pocket makes the NFL much less of a need
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I'm surprised we haven't seen a trend of players retiring after college football instead of entering the Draft. Make that $5-10M and quit and go do something else with a big head start.

It's a path for guys who don't have tremendous NFL prospects, don't have a passion for the game, or who want to avoid long term injury.
 

fmlizard said:
I'm surprised we haven't seen a trend of players retiring after college football instead of entering the Draft. Make that $5-10M and quit and go do something else with a big head start.

It's a path for guys who don't have tremendous NFL prospects, don't have a passion for the game, or who want to avoid long term injury.
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Guys who have played football their whole life and have already tasted the money are absolutely going to try and get more in the NFL. You might get the random one, but will never be a trend.
 



Everyone says the transfers cost way more NIL, but I don’t know if that’s true. Maybe for the high end guys, but your blue chip high schoolers probably cost more than former blue chips that didn’t produce in their first couple years of college. There’s thousands of kids still sitting in the portal that would cost nothing at this point.
 

btowngopher said:
Everyone says the transfers cost way more NIL, but I don’t know if that’s true. Maybe for the high end guys, but your blue chip high schoolers probably cost more than former blue chips that didn’t produce in their first couple years of college. There’s thousands of kids still sitting in the portal that would cost nothing at this point.
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The number of high school players that can command big pay for play money is going to be fairly limited.

Makes sense that in general transfers would cost more then high school payers because transfers have shown they can play in college.
 

acemac said:
honestly the thought of the NFL for lots of players is becoming less and less important.
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I think if an underclassmen is considering declaring for the NFL draft but is projected to be a Day 3 pick, he'll probably make more money sticking around for the extra year in college than going to the pros.
 

fmlizard said:
I'm waiting for the first major FBS school to completely cease high school recruiting and be very open about it. Will happen soon. Doesn't mean it will work for them but someone's going to try it.
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I've thought about this as well. Personally though, NCCA football needs an overhaul before it gets more out of whack.
 

I like it. If we can agree that we dont have the same resources to attract players like Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana now....... then we have to do things differently than they do or you have no shot.
 

Lou Brown said:
I like it. If we can agree that we dont have the same resources to attract players like Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana now....... then we have to do things differently than they do or you have no shot.
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I agree that PJ needs to approach things differently. Depending on players who are 18-21 going against players who are 20-24 or older and getting it done is a very big longshot.
 

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