Recruiting pitch for all you “we haven’t gotten enough portal” people ….

It goes both ways
LSU still has some holes on the roster
Ideally you want your best players to still be high school recruits and players you develop
The problem with portal is most of the time there is a reason players hit portal and the makeup of portal can burn you

5 of the last 7 Heisman winners were portal transfers. Every team should reach into the portal each year and pick up 3-5 players that could potentially help your team. Each team will likely lose, on average, 5 players to the portal, so all you’re doing is replacing what you’ve lost.

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We are looking to develop athletes and have developed some great ones. The teams getting lots in the portal are not developing their players well enough so they need other players that other teams have developed already

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I’ll bump this post when Ole Miss comes into Tiger Stadium and their transfer portal Qb throws the ball over the heads of all the secondary players the staff is “developing”

Ok genius

I think Kelly wants to see what they have on the roster and what the new staff can develop through spring before throwing stupid money at every shiny object on the portal board. There'll be plenty of guys who leave schools bc they don't mesh with new staffs or just want to perhaps come home for whatever reason. I think BK is just being smart with the bag money and letting everyone else toss cash at guys who may have talent but also have bad attitudes to match. He has said repeatedly he wants to develop from within the state, and the lack of his throwing other people's money at every star rating on a list is just proof of concept. Would I have liked to have seen Ricks or Amos come into the team? Of course, if they aligned! However, I also see the validity of what he hopes to build over the next few years and if they interviewed these guys and all they did was hold out a gimme-palm, it's best for the guys currently on roster to realize their coaches believe in their talent, perseverance and work ethic over just whoever they can pay to be there.

And by par levels I mean this:


An ideal roster looks even at each position.

You’ll see that you need more qb and Rb than each Wr position.


Qb 4 or 5
Rb 4 or 5

X 3
Y 3
Z 4

Te 4 or 5
OT 4
Og 3
C 3
Og 3
Ot 3
——offense 38

De 4
Ng 4
Dt 4

Jack 4
MLB 3
Will 3

Cb/nickel 5
Cb 3
Fs 4
Ss 3.

——37 defense

Special teams?
3 for a DS, K, P


That’s 78,

You’ve got room to add 7 more where you want.

And the par level list is all wrong but just an example.
I don’t even know what the defense is going to look like.

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Tell me how many portal DBs have gone in the 1st round

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I looked back to 2017 and this is what I found.

Mike Hughes @30 in 2018

Johnathan Abram @27 in 2019

Christian Gonzalez @17 in 2023

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I’ll bump this post when Ole Miss comes into Tiger Stadium and their transfer portal Qb throws the ball over the heads of all the secondary players the staff is “developing

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Well our transfer QB just dominated college football and won a Heisman. So maybe it's not as bad as some of the sky screamers think.

Hey man have you looked at how many defensive tackles we have on our roster lately? And can you tell tell me which of those guys we have developed so well?

I'm assuming BK is paying to keep this roster fed and happy. Retention. But he knows he's got to find at least some help at DT. I'm sure they'll have packages with Savion and Shand moving inside and rumors are there's already a grad transfer ready to move in after the spring. I'm hoping good coaching will greatly improve our DB play. Kelly knows what he has at the back end. BK has a plan in place. Be patient.