re: Might need to get ready for a rebuild year

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Texas Tech model will be copied by almost everyone with any money to throw around. Theres just not enough elite sec type talent to go around.

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1- not everyone has that kind of money to throw around. Every program doesn’t have a billionaire around who is heavily invested in football. Even the ones that do don’t always have a blank check, like Memphis with the Smith family.

2- if teams follow the rules and use the clearinghouse for anything non-rev share, then they won’t be able to spend like TTU did last season. They will have $15-$22 million and that only goes so far across an entire roster if you have multiple needs.

3- players still like big conferences and the TV and big game exposure that come with them. TTU is an outlier. Indiana has done what they have with just one major player acquisition in Mendoza. And that was after they made the playoffs the previous year. A lot of the guys they have brought over in the portal were 3 and low 4 stars who they scouted well and fit their systems.

4- players who enter the portal often start with teams that recruited them, that are close to home, or both. This works well for us considering how many players from the south and the local area enter each year, as well as how many high 4 and 5 star players we recruit across the south.

It’s not like LSU struggled recruiting high-profile portal players last season. Now you have Kiffin and his staff on one side of the ball well known for elevating portal players and Baker and the defense with Delane, Halsey, and Gooden all improving their draft stock and profiles this season. There’s a lot working in LSU’s favor here.