Laughing at this. Reminds me of WWB discourse on Duce or better yet Domani and Zachariah Branch. Those two did not have alot of love based on their on field performance but they are highly ranked in portal.
Then again Caleb Williams, Woody Marks and Dye worked out well for us. As did Latu for Ucla.
Heck, why not shop hard for the Jr College players? Do not think they would not cost much? Go into bidding wars for HS and now the TP is just Nuts.
Lot of these guys carry their high school stats and ratings for years.
Many of them also have amazing measurable. Branch and his 4.3 40 time will get him a lot of attention. But he qas replaced as a ko return man for a reason. He should have been replaced as the slot man. He can’t catch. Can’t wiggle. And he comes with a brother who can’t get on the field.
These days who knows. Traditionally you get a guy who couldn’t get pt at a school. Maybe it was a top school like Georgia and they had a stacked d line and you could get buried treasure. but that’s fewer and further between now.
Now you’ve got the back up kick returner at bowling green and everyone hopes they’ve hit the pot of gold. Maybe everyone’s looking for a bag but I think finding true talent and assembling a team out of this chaos unless you have Oregon or Ohio state money is really difficult