these are not bidded-on players. these are grad students who most people never heard of until they had success at Michigan. if there is no distinction to you, thats fine.

>I'm not a fan of the portal craziness either but it's here and
>it's really just an extension of recruiting at this point. Get
>with it or get left behind.

right...and its leaving me behind. thats my point. i dont want Georgia Tech or UM playing professional football without the enforceable contracts or roster limits, where the best programs are the ones with the most die hard Buddy Garritty types.

>I guess it challenges our sensibilities in that we had this
>romanticized notion of kids getting recruited out of HS who
>had popped outta the womb wanting to buckeyes or wolverines
>and this is such a dream come true yada yada...but those
>scenarios probably represented <1% of all recruitments. HS
>recruits have always made their decisions out of self-interest
>(who can offer them the best opportunities) and the portal is
>no different.

i never felt that way. what i appreciate was that wherever someone landed, we watched kids and relationships mature over a period of years, and then when it was over they were Yellow Jackets, or Buckeyes, or Trojans, or whatever...forever.

the things about cfb that are buckling the most under late capitalism are specifically the things i like the most about it.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE