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[QUOTE="djorange1989, post: 4736840, member: 3508"]
That’s how I feel, we are going to develop and then lose some very good players but we developed Tucker, Mikel, Bergeron, G Williams, OG3, Wax etc and they stuck around, and the more high end kids we can bring in via the portal, the better the chance that we can increase the number of good players we have. Basically, before the portal, we just generally could not bring in high end kids, we had to work that much harder to develop them. The ones we did would have to stay for 3 years but then could go to the NFL or transfer after graduating in 3-4 years. Now, yes, they can leave immediately but we can crank out a lot more talented kids(hopefully) to replace who we lost. I think it benefits us most at QB, where getting high end HS kids has generally not happened. We didn’t lose OL depth due to the portal but we sure added depth, same with RB. DL is the one place where we didn’t replace to the degree that we lost, and then DB is the question of if the quantity replaces the quality we lost. If not, that sucks but if the OL and RB improve because of the portal, as well as our QB options if something happens to Shrader then that’s a net positive
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