See I think this is an example of just cherry picking a few stats and running with it. Georgia Tech has been among the ACC leaders in transfers the last few years, too - that hasn't worked out so well. Arizona State had 31 transfers this past season; how are they doing? Indiana had 23 - what are they up to? Cal and Houston each had 20. UCF had 18.
These situations are not all the same. Louisville brought in a sitting P5 starting quarterback with ties to the head coach, for instance. And, in general, we have even a LESS chance of winning in the transfer portal than we do on the recruiting trail, because if you think there is competition for unproven talent, what do you think it's like for proven talent?
Perhaps the most remarkable oversight is the fact that the level of transfer we can bring in are clear as day.
Jackson Brown
Malcom Epps
Derrick Davis
Donovan McMillon
Daejon Reynolds
Christian Veilleux
Phil Jurkovec
C'Bo Flemister
Bub Means
Dylan Deveney
Shayne Simon
Kedon Slovis
Konata Mumpfield
Ryan Jacoby
Melquise Stovall
MJ Devonshire
Marcus Minor
DJ Turner
Keldrick Wilson
Joey Yellen
Lucas Krull
John Petrishen
Kylan Johnson
Nakia Griggin-Stewart
Nolan Ulizio
Those are the last five transfer classes. During these five years, we have had 19 players drafted into the NFL. Wanna guess how many of them came from the transfer portal? You got it - zero. Hey, maybe MJ gets taken this year. 1/25 is the business model you want to hitch your wagon to?
And don't get me wrong - some have been good players. But as NIL and the transfer portal have picked up, our average transfer quality had seemed to go down... and that's coming off some good seasons. You think it's going to be easier when we're coming off a bad season? Konata Mumpfield, for instance, is a fairly solid player... who would have never came here if he entered the portal after 2023. Hell, he might go back into it.
The fact that we suck and we don't take a ton of transfers does not establish causation and correlation, in my humble opinion. If anything, we need bigger recruiting classes.