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Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:25 am to Vols98
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:25 am to Vols98
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Eventually high school recruiting won't matter as much.
To a relative degree, sure. But actual contenders are still going to live off development of high school talent and only use the portal to plug holes. Teams that live off the portal are going to be your mid-majors, programs like Kansas St that don’t expect much beyond making a bowl game, and coaches on their last leg trying to save their jobs.
As an example, Georgia is going to talk to Gibbs and Haselwood but that doesn’t mean we will seriously pursue either (almost certainly not pursuing Zach Evans or Tank Bigsby if he enters) as it stands to affect team chemistry and alter roster numbers. Your top end teams aren’t going to automatically take the best players available from the portal just because they’re available (like they might in HS recruiting where you can get 3-4 years out of them)
This post was edited on 11/30/21 at 10:28 am
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Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:47 am to tylerdurden24
Agreed. I think programs like Tennessee will try and get those players now until we can field a full roster. When you have as much turnover as we have had - we have to rely on transfers just to fill out all the spots that were lost from the Pruitt debacle. I can't wait until our program is stable enough to not need the portal to build out a roster. For now though, we can use it to our advantage.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 11:45 am to tylerdurden24
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As an example, Georgia is going to talk to Gibbs and Haselwood but that doesn’t mean we will seriously pursue either
I was surprised to see the UGA 247 board thinking Hazelwood may be in play for Arkansas before we even heard anything about it lol
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