I'm sure that they are doing their due diligence. But portal prospects are like any job searcher. There are reasons they are in the portal/looking for a job. You always want to do a thorough investigation of why they are looking.
Maybe it’s because he doesn’t like it? He can not like what it’s doing to college football but still use it. Why is everyone on here so black and white. Dino doesn’t like losing, so why doesn’t he just win football games?
One would think a coach would be a fan of an immediate influx of talent to a depleted roster that won one game last year.
First off, once again you don’t HAVE to be a fan to take advantage of something. Maybe he doesn’t like NIL because it hurts his teams competitiveness compared to premier programs, but that doesn’t mean he can’t push the kids to take advantage of it.
Didn’t he say the D was going to really good in a couple of years?
Michigan State went from two wins last year to #7 in the country this year with 20 portal players. You can’t tell me they got all the good players and no one is left
I’ll take all the buried 2’s and 3’s from Ohio st, Penn St, ND, etc. that would be a big step up in talent for us.
Good point. This is really why SU needs to be all in with trying to bring in as many portal players as they lose and certainly any that will upgrade areas where they fell short in recruiting high school players.
I know we all like to bring up Michigan st. I commend Tucker for it but he had some quality players to begin with. Walker's success is making people think every transfer they got has made a huge impact. A transfer like Walker would make every coaching staff look like geniuses.
The only real thing different about an undergraduate transfer, besides the sheer number in the portal, is that a first time transferee doesn't have to sit out a year. The total number of scholarship players you can have on a team is still 85 so unless you have a mass exodus the size of the class is still limited.
I understand Michigan St and Walker isn’t the norm, who would think a backup(or RB by committee) from Wake would go there and be a star? Probably not many haha
But there are many reasons people look for new jobs. Closer to family, no room for growth, toxic work environment, etc. I don’t think one should hold it against someone for wanting a change.
Havent they done this? They brought some in last year and in previous years. I know they went after quality Wr's as well and couldnt land them. I dont know why some assume they arent targeting transfers.
Well 3 out of the current top 15 are Syracuse transfers. One site rates transfers. Taj is now a 4 star and #3 overall, Canton-Arku #14, and Morris #15
If that’s right it says more to me about the (fairly low) quality of this year’s portal pool so far than anything else. And where is Tommy DeVito? And what kind of stats did Mr Morris put up for SU?
Have to also consider that players on good teams won't enter the portal until their seasons are concluded.
And that good players don’t bail on their teams in season.
It seemed to me like he was saying he thought the program would ultimately be better if they can have 4 year guys that develop throughout their career versus trying to find short term guys that they need to try to get up to speed quickly to make an impact. Clearly we've seen a number of transfers work out well, but, in the larger scheme of things, he's probably right. This assumes, of course, that we bring in adequate talent out of high school.
