KK Smith to the portal
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Replies to: KK Smith to the portal
Not a big loss. The WR room is fine and will be improving with the…
incoming class and the transfer portal.
wow...if a kid isn't ready to start by his 2nd year, expect to see him gone. Frustrating to see ND
unable to truly recruit and develop frontline talent at WR.
That'll happen to every team. Just like the NFL. Free agency killed team depth.
If a kid isn't willing to sit and learn, and isn't entirely sold on the school, they're gone. But you do get a year to evaluate them, and keep the good ones.
ND will probably will lose slower developers.
Just look at safety with Johnson and Blair. That's the way of college sports now. You go get your depth from the portal. Or the kids who are sold on the school. Unless you're Indiana or Tex Tech who seem to rely entirely on the portal.
It does appear though that ND has to start treating this more as a school run business than avenue for educating young athletes. Because that's what it is. You're either in or your not.
I remember the days of recruiting where a school would take a player and the player might not
start, but he won't ever beat them as well. This NIL is out of control and needs to be capped or something. The problem is that whatever the NCAA does to stop the insanity, you can bet some kid with his attorney will sue the NCAA and win and get their way. This hopping around every year to highest bidder is just insane. I just don't know how it gets fixed, if it ever gets fixed.
They need to limit the amount of times you can transfer in a 4 year period to 1 time
At your discretion unlimited. And then 1 more time if there's an institutional reason.
It's one WR guys.
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i understand, but ND going to the portal for Wr’s every year is not a ringing endorsement of
room development or the playbook. WR is the one position where young guys rarely start or play meaningful snaps.
Take a look at the CFP teams and their portal additions.
I don't like it either, but this isn't a ND problem.
I thought the CFP snubbing would galvanize the team. But maybe it broke their spirits.
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Folks need to look at this individually. This WR class coming in set this in motion
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How many is that now? And they have yet to sign anyone.
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Gees, what's going on at ND?
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Success!
This year's team was better from a pure talent perspective than last year's.
On top of that, it was a great recruiting class.
Way too much angst (and blaming NIL $$) over guys leaving who weren't on the first team.
Way too much angst over portal players choosing other schools.
Yuuuuuuurp
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Signing one of the top recruiting class in the country is whats happening
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KK was a depth piece.
Hardly a difference-maker.
Ian Strong from Rutgers is visiting this week. He is a good receiver. Hopefully he signs.
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Ian Strong. #79 in receiving yards. 10 games played. 52 grabs for 762 & 5 TDs. Junior.
Irish Nation wept over the loss of Nick Marsh, a Sophomore WR that many in Irish Nation never even heard of until recently. 117th in receiving yards. 12 games. 61 catches for 661 and 7 TDs. I do know this, Indiana got our Heisman,. Indiana may get our title that ND has been trying to get back since 1988. IU has taken our transfer guys and portal guys. Meanwhile, we were flying pretty high with the recent recruiting success and the re-signing of Marcus. Now we seem to hit a brick wall. As Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes once screamed from her window .."What's goin' on"?, I have to ask myself the same question with our transfer / portal success or lack of.
last year he was one of the best in contested catches. I don't think WR is an area of need like DT.
ND recruits high school players really well. Schools like IU rely on the portal.
I didn't even know there was an official stat on contested catches. Learn something everyday.
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