Total Change in recruiting

[TwistingMyMelon]

Portal shopping is a lot more efficient for coaches. Instead of following a HS kid around for 2 years, going to HS games on Friday nights in who knows where town, recruiting call after recruiting call, etc., now you see a name in the portal, look at size/stats, send the kid a message to visit, then look at some game film, kid visits and commits that weekend.

You gotta keep the pipeline of players from both HS and Portal, but getting a 21 year old commit who's already produced at D1 level and only takes 1 week of recruitment, is a lot easier than building relationships with HS juniors, nurturing that, and not knowing how that kid is going to mature physically over the next few years.

Go Gophers!!

I agree with the efficiency and shorter timetable parts but transfer portal recruiting is extremely competitive primarily because of the lower levels of uncertainty when it comes to more mature transfer players with established records. I would say this is part of the reason that Fleck has recruited liberally from FCS. Players from there probably are a bit less on the radar and have a bit more uncertainty than FBS players.

 

[Donovan]

This may be old news, I didn't realize coaches could direct their salary towards NIL:

Mike Norvell, Mike Gundy lead college football coaches paying loser's tax amid NIL revolution

How to cover the growing costs in athlete compensation? Here comes a fresh idea: A loser's tax on coaches, from Mike Gundy to Mike Norvell.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Holy Man]

Portal shopping is a lot more efficient for coaches. Instead of following a HS kid around for 2 years, going to HS games on Friday nights in who knows where town, recruiting call after recruiting call, etc., now you see a name in the portal, look at size/stats, send the kid a message to visit, then look at some game film, kid visits and commits that weekend.

You gotta keep the pipeline of players from both HS and Portal, but getting a 21 year old commit who's already produced at D1 level and only takes 1 week of recruitment, is a lot easier than building relationships with HS juniors, nurturing that, and not knowing how that kid is going to mature physically over the next few years.

Go Gophers!!

Need to have enough high school recruits who buy into the culture to keep it going. The mercenary system of pay for play and risk free transfer makes maintaining culture much harder. And that might be the most significant element in our program.

 

[Donovan]

Kind of a funny article in regard to the NCAA losing another court battle.

Latest legal loss on athlete eligibility is another step closer to the end of the NCAA

With Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia restoring eligibility, the NCAA loses in court again, moving one step closer to its inevitable implosion.

sports.yahoo.com

The Washington Generals of legal teams was routed again, this time when attorneys for Vanderbilt star quarterback Diego Pavia argued yet another antiquated NCAA bylaw infringed on a player’s right to earn.

It may as well have been the Harlem Globetrotters whistling and deceptively passing the ball in the middle of the courtroom, playing keep-away from the flailing NCAA — while the judge howled in delight.

 

[99Gopher]

maybe I'm wrong - but it seems as if there are two levels of HS recruits.

the real upper-level recruits, like Perich or Darius Taylor, are going to play right away or at least in their 2nd year.

but most of the HS recruits wind up as practice fodder, and after a couple of years on the scout team or special teams, they get to see some portal player come into the program and bump them down the depth chart.

If you're not a Perich or Taylor-level player, I don't see any benefit to going to a P4 program as a true FR. You're better off going to a lower-level D1 program where you can get some reps on film to show off when you hit the portal in a year or two.

I agree that a lot of 3-star kids are going to have to adjust their expectations, as there might not be a spot for you now. That proven kid playing offensive line in the Group of 5 now has what used to be your spot. So, now you'll have to prove yourself at Akron or Bowling Green and work yourself up to a P4 team as well. The top 4 & 5-Star kids will always have their spot on a P4 roster.

I think the portal could and maybe already has end up being the great equalizer for teams like Minn. In the past I think the top teams kind of relied on developmental teams like Minn to ebb and flow with their talent with no way to compensate when they missed on a kid while they had this consistent bench filled with another 4-Star they could plug in. However, with where we sit now we have seen some of these 4 Stars on the top teams not want to wait around for their turn and look for more immediate playing time and this has started to thin their bench a bit. Look at Georgia, where Kirby has complained how the portal has affected his depth because players on the bench are hitting the portal. Meanwhile, teams like Minn no longer need to sit around waiting to plug holes if they missed on a kid or two, and they aren't forced to wait to develop that position. I think the system now allows you to compete, but again the biggest barrier still comes down to the $$$.