We need to put our resources towards bringing in transfers that can immediately help the team. It sucks losing a good HS recruit, but there’s only so much NIL $ to go around.
That, and any depth we have will need to be built from HS recruits. We're not gonna pay for quality depth from the portal, but we can get lucky with a HS recruit.
How many years did it take for Louis to make an impact? We need guys that can step in next year and help right away. This roster has a ton of holes.
Sad dose of reality...Narduzzi is not going to be capable of filling all of the holes. At least not with the quality of player that we all are hoping for. Pitt will likely be utilizing recruited players in many of these holes, thus the importance of high school recruiting. But, this becomes quite challenging when year after year you hang your hat on the "diamond in the rough" philosophy when it comes to recruiting.
Kyle Louis would be an absolute fool if he didn't enter the portal. Same for Dez Reid.
Reid needs to enter the draft. RBs have a limited shelf life and hes shown he can be really productive at the major college level. Playing another year just risks injury and reduces his shelf life at the next level. Hed make a great third down back/change of pace back in the NFL. His stock isnt going to get any higher than it is now. Unless of course some school is willing to shell out way more than he can make with his first contract in the NFL. In todays CFB, nothing is too crazy
Do you even need to enter the portal? Seems like once most big names enter the portal it's just a formality as the deal is already done.
Good point.
I'd like to think that too, but, the allure of bigger $$$ can prompt one to make a stupid decision.
As long as they are from Florida then they are practically a 5*. Or so I've been consistently told on this site.
If these two and other top players enter the Portal, I can see Duzz calling it quit, saying enough is enough.
It's possible, but I doubt it. I don't think taking a knife to a gun fight really bothers him.
I actually like that it's more transparent now. We used to lose players -- allegedly -- to locker room renovations, attendance, or better bowl opportunities. It makes more sense when decisions are purely transactional and above-the-table. And we don't have to castigate assistant coaches for not sending enough hand-signed letters.
Of course it doesn't. That's why he insist on press coverage. The knife isn't effective at range.
Always a good reminder that NIL just legalized what has always been the standard practice for some schools. The transfer portal just makes it worse.
Please.
Then he'd see that his biweekly direct deposit of $260k just hit his bank account, and he'd say to himself, self, what kind of a moron would walk away from a $7 mill/year income at age 58 for coaching a kid's game for an institutional employer that doesn't put any pressure on me to excel?
It's either that or be unhappy with them. Because Pitt can't really do much better than that in this environment.
