With a few exceptions I think the transfer portal is

But besides Jones the rest of the rb's bought are trash, besides Seaton the rest of OL bought are trash, besides Harris rest of WR's bought are trash, TE's bought trash hit on defense more than anything .

Jones is pretty good,, but he's no Faulk Fournette, Guice, Hill,,or Helaire. What it takes to win championships .

I don’t disagree Jones isn’t a guice, buga, Faulk

He might be closer CEH but just not as fast. He still has had some nice flashes.

I have a feeling we will see us spend big at LT, LG,RG next year, perhaps we grab a top back and big WR.

The good news is the qb room should be good.

We had a lot of holes to fix year 1. UGA fricked us a bit by choking to ole miss. If they beat ole miss we probably have more of their guys giving us a nice core of guys that had been in Lanes system.

I won’t be surprised to see year 2 improve and year 3 is the payoff year.

I just don’t see the sec being a recipe for quick 1 year turn arounds especially if your roster is terrible like ours was.

You can see how bad our roster was by how our transfer outs are doing.

"Outside of these dozen or so players we got who are good from the portal, everyone is trash"

It's a free agent market. Your opinion is based only on what you see publicly in the portal. The reality is that players WHO ARE NOT IN THE PORTAL are negotiating deals and being recruited by schools as well. They don't get recruited only after they enter the portal. The recruiting starts well before.

After this season just about the entire LSU team, and the players on every other team, will be looking to "renegotiate" their contract. So the coaches/GMs have to decide - do we want to resign this player? If so, what is the monetary value we have on him? Do we want to sign an outside FA? And how much do we want to spend on a "rookie"? (HS signee).

Think of it a bit in MLB terms. Teams have to decide - do we want to be the Dodgers or Yankees where we use our money advantage to sign proven FAs as opposed to building through he farm system? Or do we want to be more like a small market team where we sign less or unproven players for cheaper and try to development them? The one flaw in that thinking is unlike in the MLB, the developmental players aren't signing long term contracts. So just because you sign the 5* freshman this season there is no guarantee you have him locked up for more than just one season

I don’t know about junk, but people drastically overrate the average quality of player available in the portal, especially at non-skill positions.

There a like 20 guys in a given cycle who really move the needle for a contender, and maybe another hundred replacement-level players, best I can tell.

You can count the OL difference makers in the portal on one hand.

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Few exceptions?

7 of the last 9 Heisman winners were transfers