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[QUOTE="007, post: 5369878, member: 393"]
Your point about the difference between being able to identify top talent and landing top talent is crucial.

Identifying the talent is the first step. Kline has been working on identifying players who could enter the portal. Unlike last year, you have to have a proactive sense of who might be in the pool to formulate a plan. And you have to hit the ground running. Those contacts have been going on for a while.

The more difficult task is assigning grades to every player who could potentially be in the pool. Kline has made his reputation doing exactly that. They then have to assign a value (NIL cost) to those grades. For example (just making up numbers here to illustrate a point), we want a 5 with a certain skill set and a minimum grade of X, and we are estimating the starting cost for that player to be around 1.5 million (or whatever). What are we willing to spend to land that guy? What is the impact of signing that guy relative to the grades we will have to settle for at other positions? Who is the next highest graded 5 on the list if we need to move on?

As players fall off the list for whatever reasons (the "landing" issue), you have to be able to make informed decisions on who to target next AND what grade that player has to have to make the NIL cost make sense. Hopefully, Kline will make a difference in this entire process.
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