Except in extenuating circumstances (Ponds comes to mind), if we are going to portal, we need to focus on players
1. Productive starters at smaller P4 teams that would jump at an opportunity to play main event games (think Cam, Damien Martinez, Barrow, Carpenter)
2. Rare super obvious G5 or FCS player who dominated and has all the measureables.
What not to pull in
1. Backup or Role players who want to start - if they couldnt start or be a big time performer elsewhere, why give them starter pay and minutes here?
2. G5 or FCS players who have great tape, but not all the measureables.
If we didn’t take guys just to take guys, we could have tapped into our freshmen more and given them valuable learning reps. Next year we will have guys like Ny, Jojo, Quan, Pruitt, Pickett, Ryan Mack are going to be unproven and they were behind transfers who didn’t show out.