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Exactly. If they went all in on players who can play right away, they’d expect 10 wins. This way he can go 6-6 again and say “we’re still a young team full of freshmen” and keep his job another year.Florida's portal/recruiting strategy makes a lot more sense when you realize that they have the same schedule next year as they did this year, and Billy's going to argue that going 7-5 and "the future" should give him another year.
If they would have just bought up a ton of recruits two years ago, they’d be ready to win now but since they waited through three years of Billy being horrible before they started buying up recruits, it’s going to be another 2-3 years before any of this pays off. By then Billy will be canned, they’ll still be on the hook for buyout money and most of this current class will be in the portal.