2025 Portal
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It'll be the same. (Feeling like a nightmare)
Won't know till august/September if it works out.
But good idea to put it all in one place.
I have a good feeling about Shane's portal dealings.
I disagree. I think it comea down to finding good players from lesser teams and building from there.
We cant compete for top shelf.
Love this recent quote from Bears interim Thomas Brown and it applies here. He said he wanted his team to embody three “abilities: coachability, accountability and dependability. Beamer seems to have a knack for going after the right guys, we need to trust him!
Given some of the players I didn't think would contribute have contributed, and others that I thought would- didn't
I just have to leave it up to our coaches who will be viewing the video, and talking to other coaches about these players, and I consider them knowing more about them than I do.
I suspect we will add some that come from big programs, and some that don't. That's fine. The NFL is made up of teams with players from name programs and players that most of us have never heard of before from places we wouldn't even think about.
We will lose some players because they we believe they can play somewhere else and might not be able to play here - possibly because they know they can't beat our other players on our roster. That's something none of us could possibly know.
What i do know is Shane seems to have created a very, very strong culture at South Carolina with the football program. Players seem to really like him and talk very good about him and the coaching staff and the facilities and the university. Players also seem to have a lot of confidence in him and his plan for the program.
I just have to leave it up to our coaches who will be viewing the video, and talking to other coaches about these players, and I consider them knowing more about them than I do.
I suspect we will add some that come from big programs, and some that don't. That's fine. The NFL is made up of teams with players from name programs and players that most of us have never heard of before from places we wouldn't even think about.
We will lose some players because they we believe they can play somewhere else and might not be able to play here - possibly because they know they can't beat our other players on our roster. That's something none of us could possibly know.
What i do know is Shane seems to have created a very, very strong culture at South Carolina with the football program. Players seem to really like him and talk very good about him and the coaching staff and the facilities and the university. Players also seem to have a lot of confidence in him and his plan for the program.
Reminds me of the Moneyball movie trait: “He gets on base.”
True. I’m thinking that if we’re selected for the playoffs we’ll have less portal losses because Shane has been known to not play portal entries in Bowl games regardless of how good they are.
If we’re not selected I think we’ll see several portal entries….Bowl games are just not that exciting any more.
True
By top shelf I mean solid starters, no doubters, not top 100,
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For 2 of the 3 years, the Portal has been great for us.
I get it, about the "money". Supposedly, I have heard that we have more money than some think. But, when you think about it, we have not been great in the recruiting game, ever. We have had moments. Over the past 40-50 years, we have pretty much landed in the same spot in recruiting rankings every year. For schools like ours, it comes down to "filling your needs". You don't have to "fill your needs" with the best of the best. Just fill your needs with quality players, not trash.
I get it, about the "money". Supposedly, I have heard that we have more money than some think. But, when you think about it, we have not been great in the recruiting game, ever. We have had moments. Over the past 40-50 years, we have pretty much landed in the same spot in recruiting rankings every year. For schools like ours, it comes down to "filling your needs". You don't have to "fill your needs" with the best of the best. Just fill your needs with quality players, not trash.
Stock - Love ya but a couple of things here:
1) Where have you heard we have more money that some think? Can't just say stuff like that without the receipts.
2) We have clearly dropped in the overall recruiting rankings since the inception of the NIL while other teams like Oregon, etc. have leap frogged some of the blue bloods. The owner of NIKE was serious he said he wanted a championship at any cost.
Me and members of my family (all Carolina fans) are on a group text and one of them said that he got that over at On3 from the publishers write-up there (not a random poster). Did I read that there? No. Did I look for it? No, because it wasn't important enough for my time. I never said I "read" it there. Said I "heard". And I used the word "supposedly".
As far as recruiting rankings, where we have lagged in high school recruiting, we have made up for it in the Portal.
The reason I asked is because I've heard just the opposite from a friend whose Dad is on the board.
All speculation though regardless.
Once we stop bleeding talent and start pulling in skill player studs on any consistent basis, I would assume that would be a good sign the tide has turned.
The portal is the poor man's auction house that we've had some good fortune in thus far.
Credit the staff for their selections and ability to fit a player into the system on a dime for that given season.
However, just like everything else, the heavy hands are obviously noting any success stories coming out of the portal and that window of opportunity is bound to be limited over time.
Hopefully our University and their bloated endowment fund will step up in 2025 to fund some chess pieces around Sellers if the fans can cobble enough together this year to hang onto him and a few others.
Agreed. This past year has made me realize we should be more than fine with ability to buy recruits and transfers to make a competitive team.
Not championship caliber, as that will be the first retort.
But our NIL put this team together through recruiting and transfers. If this is possible, we'll be more than okay in that regard.
As long as you're comfortable when players who didn't work out on other teams, also don't work out for our team in any given year. We've been fortunate.
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It is speculation because we have never seen numbers.
The Portal has paid off for us, finishing 3rd in the nation in its first year and 11th this past year. Beamer and staff parlayed both into nationally-ranked seasons on the field. They have, indeed, done a great job through the Portal.
The Portal has changed college football. Teams now look different, personnel-wise, from one year to the next.
What monies we do have, hopefully the staff will continue to be BOTH efficient and effective with the resources.
No, but we do have plenty of evidence to make an educated guess on the situation:
+ Lack of NIL announcements at the high school level
+ Best players leaving for places like Oregon, USC-W, Memphis, etc. to get NIL deals
+ Rank Sliding on Signing Day
The portal is a refuge for teams without big funding on the front end. It's very obvious.
One would have to believe there will be heightened interest from the NIL players in terms of high school versus portal ROI...as arbitrage windows do not remain open very long in an efficient market.
Well, I won't take part in the guessing game. I will just wait to see the results. Hopefully the results through the Portal will be like they were in Years One and Three. Hopefully, one day, we will see actual NIL numbers.
You still have to pay to get players through the Portal. And certainly Kennard and Rocket were big contributors to our success this season. I am anxiously looking forward to seeing who we get through this year's Portal. I believe we will do well.
If Clemson beats SMU and Clemson end up with a first-round bye, that would really be something.
If SMU, following a loss to Clemson, is even included in the playoffs after one ranked victory against #19 BYU early in the season -- that would really be something.
If the ACC ends up with only one less team in the playoffs than the stacked SEC (who also added Texas and Oklahoma this season), that would really be something.
If SMU, following a loss to Clemson, is even included in the playoffs after one ranked victory against #19 BYU early in the season -- that would really be something.
If the ACC ends up with only one less team in the playoffs than the stacked SEC (who also added Texas and Oklahoma this season), that would really be something.
Like I said, I won't guess nor speculate. I will just wait to see who next comes through our doors. I have a hunch we will get some good ones.Ha. Guess was the wrong word there. It's very obvious.
Yet you were speculating in the highest fashion and that's what kicked off this conservation in the first place.
"Supposedly, I have heard that we have more money than some think."
"Me and members of my family (all Carolina fans) are on a group text and one of them said that he got that over at On3 from the publishers write-up there (not a random poster). Did I read that there? No. Did I look for it? No, because it wasn't important enough for my time. I never said I "read" it there. Said I "heard".
And I used the word "supposedly". I did not use the word "definitively" as if I knew. I would think that is obvious.Yet you were speculating in the highest fashion and that's what kicked off this conservation in the first place.
"Supposedly, I have heard that we have more money than some think."
"Me and members of my family (all Carolina fans) are on a group text and one of them said that he got that over at On3 from the publishers write-up there (not a random poster). Did I read that there? No. Did I look for it? No, because it wasn't important enough for my time. I never said I "read" it there. Said I "heard".
OT: By the way Ward, FYI: I doubled my short in bitcoin last week (November 27).Yet you were speculating in the highest fashion and that's what kicked off this conservation in the first place.
"Supposedly, I have heard that we have more money than some think."
"Me and members of my family (all Carolina fans) are on a group text and one of them said that he got that over at On3 from the publishers write-up there (not a random poster). Did I read that there? No. Did I look for it? No, because it wasn't important enough for my time. I never said I "read" it there. Said I "heard".
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