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Well, if you heard what they said yesterday about NIU and the fact that they do NOT use the portal. Rather, they grow their team from the inside. And look what that brought them... a huge victory over the number 5 ranked team in the country. No! I must disagree. The portal hasn't done anything but hurt Notre Dame and not given guys like Angeli the chance they have earned.. In my opinion, if other schools want to use the portal, fine, But Notre Dame must ban it forever. Its only hurting us.

And along with what I said above. Notre Dame MUST do something to insure players don't go into and out of that stupid portal. If a legally binding contract can be initiated, it must be done... in my opinion. And I do not agree that this would hurt recruiting. If a kid REALLY wants to be at Notre Dame then a legally binding contract won't be a problem for him. BUT, if a kid wants to commit to Notre Dame, just so he can leverage himself to get to some other school through the portal, then that kid does NOT really want to be at Notre Dame, and we don't need kids who don't want to be at Notre Dame. We need kids fully committed to Notre Dame.