re: Only 4 Football Teams Who Didn't Bring in a Single Transfer

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Whether you like the portal or not, it exists. If you have 9 players transfer out, what are going to do to replace them? wait for the next recruiting class? It just doesn't make any sense. Ahead coach's job is to win, not to hurt the team in an effort not to hurt someone's feelings.

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9 isn't that hard to handle.

You can have 85 players on scholarship. If you had 0 losses to transfer or the NFL and you kept each class with the same number of guys with no redshirts at all, that would mean you'd bring in 21 players each year.

UGA and Bama brought in 28 players this past class. Nebraska brought in 31. If you recruit enough players you can handle a loss of 9 players a season through HS recruiting.

The issue is Clemson's last class was 22 guys.. The three classes before that were 26, 21 and 19 players from high school. They DIDN'T handle things numbers wise.