re: LSU with 5 1st year transfers starting (all on defense), Noles with 6!

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Georgia might be an outlier but they are showing you the blueprint on how to compete for the sec and a NC each year.

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I do think they are an outlier but only in the sense that Kirby has been absolutely destroying it in recruiting. Not only signing highly ranked kids, but developing them (especially on defense) into a cohesive, deep team.

I don't mind the portal in the way we are utilizing it as we pretty much had too, but I still believe it is a high school recruit driven game when it gets down to making the playoffs year and year out.

Interesting take though from previous poster about Kelly being a better talent evaluator with portal kids than he is at landing high school kids. Time will tell in the next two recruiting classes on how this plays out.