Texas Tech shelling out big $$
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My guess is that will be a lot of money poorly spent, although it's not exactly asking a lot to do what ASU did in that conference this past season. Paying people to go to Lubbock probably is similar to paying players to play for the Pirates, not that that ever happens; they probably have to overpay by quite a lot.
Ceiling is probably Ole Miss level (but with a much easier schedule). Floor, as we just saw, is 2-10 FSU.
Not having a great HS recruiting base to develop and build off of is what makes this such a hard thing to do. Look at Sparty under Tucker: from NY6 and overpaying to missing out on the next bowl season and praying for a blunder to get rid of him.
It's all well and good. I like a good rotation of teams being great. I think overpaying in the portal isn't the crown many believe it is and it requires more. However, when you got money to blow, blow it.
Not having a great HS recruiting base to develop and build off of is what makes this such a hard thing to do. Look at Sparty under Tucker: from NY6 and overpaying to missing out on the next bowl season and praying for a blunder to get rid of him.
It's all well and good. I like a good rotation of teams being great. I think overpaying in the portal isn't the crown many believe it is and it requires more. However, when you got money to blow, blow it.
Building a team mostly from the portal is a losing proposition. The portal is best used like how OSU and PSU uses it: to fill in a few holes and add experienced depth. Let's face it, a lot of portal players are in the portal because they couldn't start for their original teams and/or became disgruntled for whatever reason.
I agree on both of your points, but what's really crazy is that they are spending an average of $589K per portal player that they brought in. That seems extremely high, but I guess times are still changing.
I also reas where they have a football GM, and just extended his contract at $1.7M/yr, so I guess they have the money. The question is, when will it run out.
Indiana was a somewhat different situation. Of the 30 guys they brought in last year, nine of the were guys who followed Cignetti from James Madison. While that's less than a third of the transfer class, the JMU transfers were a big part of the team's success. IU's #2 RB (141/668 and 12 TDs (team leader)), their #1 WR, their #1 TE, their top two tacklers, and at least one other starter on defense were part of the JMU group. They certainly had other transfers that were big contributors, but they also imported a group of guys who knew the coach, the system, and the culture the coach wanted to build. It's a bit different from scanning the portal and bringing in individual players and trying to fit all the pieces and personalities together.
But it shows it can work. Not advocating for it but schools like Indiana and Texas Tech need the portal IMO
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