Quote Originally Posted by Goldendawg View Post
So what's up with these 22 commits? Are they all cheap gets? How many are impact players early? How many are hopefully diamonds in the rough that we can develop in a couple of years? If these guys are the majority of what we end up with, is this our future Scout team? I think that there are a lot of sour grapes on this site because we are #48 nationally right now, so we are just going to be a portal program. The SEC teams we play seem to want and have plenty of 4 and even a few 5 star HS commits. Last year's portal class went 0-8 in the SEC and looked bad doing it. The jury is still out on this year's portal class at 0-2 in SEC play. The majority of our portal players couldn't start at other SEC programs, are from lower level programs or big program subs. We need the right mix of the best HS and portal players we can get. But, let's just flip the team again next year at 7-5, 6-6, 5-7 or Heaven forbid, 4-8 with 0-8 in the SEC again. JMO, fire away.

Note: If we go 7-5 or even 6-6, I agree that we should spend what it takes to keep our best players that helped get us there and use the portal to fill our needs for 2026 season. Still think we need the best HS players we can get that can contribute in year one and maybe be a starter in year 2 or 3.
It's about building depth and having bodies to practice. Out of that 22 there's probably 6-8 that can contribute in the next 2 years. I'm just being honest. There's just not many HS players out there that can contribute Day 1. I mean take a look at our class last year. 3 of our top 5 recruits haven't sniffed the field and Kamario plays sparingly. Lockhart is finally getting some run.