So Far We Have the #9 Portal Class...

[Marroniac]

Noted over-exaggerator Jon Rothstein lol.

It's nice to get national recognition but rankings don't matter until the games start.

I refuse to get excited about someone ranking us #43 when we used to be ranked 4 or 3.

 

[Melancer46]

I can't remember the last time we were showing up in his daily top 45.

It was a few years back when we had a losing record for the first time in forever. Buddy's senior year. We were in the 30s that year.

 

[FasterCuse]

not the class I pictured we would have at this point but it could be worse. think gmac needs to figure out how to recruit with the big boys. maybe Fran give some pointers.

Not sure this is squarely on Gerry's shoulders. He just doesn't have the NIL to compete with these other schools. Even though our NIL increased it was outpaced by many others. This would be any coaches problem that came here, and why this job wasn't attractive to many.

I think Gerry will make the most with what he's got, and the coaching staff is miles better than what we've had the last couple of years. However, I still think this is a team that is going to be on the last 4 in/last 4 out bubble all season, which is an improvement. Not sure we'll ever see a perennial top 25 team here again with the current NIL structure.

 

[Scotch]

The talent is underwhelming but they'll win a few more games just by playing smarter and giving better effort. I'd expect their fundamentals to be a little better too

We will also play defense. I think most are concerned with talent in terms of offensive firepower - me included. But this group can defend.

 

[Scotch]

not the class I pictured we would have at this point but it could be worse. think gmac needs to figure out how to recruit with the big boys. maybe Fran give some pointers.

Right, in the age of NIL it’s a recruiting problem. Good god some of these takes.

 

[Orangezoo]

not the class I pictured we would have at this point but it could be worse. think gmac needs to figure out how to recruit with the big boys. maybe Fran give some pointers.

it’s a better class than you are giving it credit for having been put together in 3 weeks. HS recruiting will be part of the equation for next year as I assume euro scouting will too.

 

[Orangezoo]

Not sure this is squarely on Gerry's shoulders. He just doesn't have the NIL to compete with these other schools. Even though our NIL increased it was outpaced by many others. This would be any coaches problem that came here, and why this job wasn't attractive to many.

I think Gerry will make the most with what he's got, and the coaching staff is miles better than what we've had the last couple of years. However, I still think this is a team that is going to be on the last 4 in/last 4 out bubble all season, which is an improvement. Not sure we'll ever see a perennial top 25 team here again with the current NIL structure.

NIL could be better but it’s been effective enough so far honestly.