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[QUOTE="SUDadx2, post: 4788741, member: 8174"]
Recruiting, NIL and the portal go hand in hand.

We need to go after bigger fish.  I think we can go head-to-head with some of the big programs; SU is a good university, we can offer an opportunity to play early, you will get good exposure playing against ACC teams, we run a clean program and we do put players in the league.  No, we are not going to win every recruiting battle.  But do you really believe we can't win one out of ten?  The problem is [I]we aren't even offering those players.  [/I]

The portal is so active.  There's a good chance some of those players you took a shot on and lost when the kid came out of high school will be in the portal.  If you build a positive relationship with those kids, you will have an advantage when those players hit the portal.   Plant seeds and play the long game.  Sell the school, not the coach.  The school will always be here.

The portal is just more recruiting. Players are looking for playing time, NIL if they can get it and some are looking for a good school (or grad program).  SU offers all of those things.  For SU I think the portal is a good opportunity to rebuild.  Unfortunately, when we ID an under-rated high school player and that player develops with SU we risk the chance that the player will hit the portal looking for more NIL and or more exposure; Chestnut, Carter, and Geer come to mind.  While players like Johnson, Clark, Shrader, Del Rio Wilson, Davis and Wholabaugh come her via the portal and stay a while.   Like all recruiting, high school or portal recruiting, not everyone pans out.

We have to do something different if the program is ever going to get over the 5-7 wins a year hump.
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