School can sign as many transfers as possible but only 7 to match portal losses, right?

No reason not to sign max from portal
It may not be a long term thing

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Roster management will play a big role in how quickly we get back on track

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We need to find a doctor that can falsify career ending injuries to process players that aren’t working out to sign more than 25 initial counters.

We can sign 32 total.

Go do a quick roster check boss, we won’t have 53 kids after the bowl game.

And we won’t be anywhere near 85 at fall camp. More like 72-75.

If we were up near where we should be numbers-wise, your argument would have a little validity. As it stands, we don’t have enough bodies. Never mind the fact that a lot of the ones we had this year don’t seem completely invested, we need numbers. End of story. Once we get dug out of the hole we’re in, maybe we can start getting picky again.

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One thing I haven’t seen discussed much, though, is that the new rule allows for a one-time transfer with immediate eligibility. That means that any players you take from the portal cannot transfer again without either getting a hardship waiver or sitting out a year. So it will be interesting to see the attrition rates over time for transfers vs. high school recruits under the new rules.

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that fact should be setting off alarm bells in Indianapolis and light bulbs should be going off in every ops building. And I'm talking going forward after this year with the 7 extra. I'll put it as bluntly as possible:

1. For a recruit we sign, anytime during his eligibility he can transfer and be eligible immediately at his new team. No harm, no foul... regardless if he signs an LOI or not. He takes a spot in the 25.

2. A transfer in will have less incentive to transfer out because they will have to sit, just like the original LOI system put in place. He will count against the same 25 limit.

So if transfers are depleting your numbers as a program, you are better off not recruiting some high schoolers and using those spots for transfers because, in the end, you are more likely to get 3 years out of them rather than 1 for the transfer out.

And with the first transfer being a freebee- you'll see more higher rated players (the same ones we chased as recruits) in the portal over time. Still plenty of backups, but many of those will be highly rated freshmen that thought they should've gotten playing time and are now bolting.

ETA: and the contact rules for a player in the portal are much more liberal than the rules concerning a recruit in high school. It takes much less resources and is much easier to court a transfer than a high schooler. This is just lagniappe.

ETA #2: and LSU better lean how to medically retire players (who experience a miraculous recovery later) PDQ or we will never catch up.

We have like 50 scholarship players before people graduate

I dont Think we need to process anyone

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We have like 50 scholarship players before people graduate

I dont Think we need to process anyone

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It was tounge in cheek comment. This is how Bama gets away with taking more than 25 initial counters every year.

This makes a lot more sense, thanks for clarification.

In that case, the portal is the future. Supply will outweigh demand in the near-term, and in the portal you have a bit of a better idea in what you are getting, and an incoming portal player has less time to lose and less likely to transfer again. Players will churn through the portal at a very high rate

It sucks for the sport, but LSU is a position to benefit greatly from this. Have to add 32 this year and better to not be all true fresh