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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4520945, member: 40"]
Mid-major is too harsh.

IMO, there is nothing surprising that the portal transfer / ability to transfer without having to sit out benefits factories, who can mine every other program out there for proven talent.  That doesn't make us a mid-major -- it makes us < factory programs.

The key is replacing those players.  I'm very unhappy that we lost Carter / Duce, but we replaced them with inbound portal transfers that blew our former players' offer lists away.  Now -- they'll have to do it on the field, but we made out okay in that exchange on paper.

In fact, unlike a mid-major, we pulled talent from "higher order" programs like Notre Dame, Alabama, and Nebraska [historically, not recently].

The portal taketh, and the portal giveth away.  If we're focused on the latter and accord ourselves well, we'll be fine.  That's the new normal of the current rules -- it's devolved into out-and-out free agency.

Again, none of that should be a surprise.
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