That's what the AU Director of Player Personnel - Matt Doherty - for their football program calls it in an article in the Daily Star sports section today by Michael Lev entitled "Fisch Old School In Building Wildcats"...
He makes that comparison because with portal recruiting you usually don't have a lot of time to vet the player the way you do with a HS player that usually takes several years...
You might have a couple of weeks, at best, with which to see if the player has the right "character" you are looking for to add to your team culture and the same goes for the players family...
Whereas, with HS recruits, you've been in the process for a long time (usually years), not only evaluating their "talent" but whether they fit your program character profiles that lead to proper talent development...
AU hasn't ignored the portal as they have a lot of players taken from it but, using it like Colorado has done, won't make the program sustainable in his opinion...
Over the past three recruiting cycles the Utes have taken 17 transfers, AU 20, ASU 59 and Colorado 73 but he makes a distinction between Dilly's set of circumstances and Prime Time's for this reason...
Both CU and ASU have faced desperate times but the Buffs only signed a handful of HS players this cycle while ASU took a regular type HS class...
So, in his estimation, Dilly "gets it" while he's not sure what Prime Time may be up to since that approach won't sustain the Buffs program over time, in his estimation...
Here's my speculation about that...is PT just trying to put his son, who is the Buff's QB, in a better position to land as a high draft pick after next season, to the exclusion of building a sustainable program over time at Colorado..??
He points out, getting back to the subject at hand, without my digression, that the Cats OL this season did not have a single transfer player on it...
The article also points out that none of the College Football Playoff teams have gone crazy with the transfer portal...
Between 2022 and 2023, the Huskies have added 19 transfers, Michigan and Texas 12 transfers, and Alabama 10 transfers...
After reading many of Dilly's recruiting comments, I think he is in total agreement with what was said in the article by Michael Lev, regarding this subject, this morning in the newspaper...
It's going to be interesting for me to follow the paths of the Four Corner schools after they go to the Big 12, to see how those four schools do when it comes to winning games and sustaining or not sustaining success by the way they recruit...
Thoughts about recruiting "speed dating" and whether it can lead to long term sustainable success or not..??
Go Dilly and Go Devils!!!
He makes that comparison because with portal recruiting you usually don't have a lot of time to vet the player the way you do with a HS player that usually takes several years...
You might have a couple of weeks, at best, with which to see if the player has the right "character" you are looking for to add to your team culture and the same goes for the players family...
Whereas, with HS recruits, you've been in the process for a long time (usually years), not only evaluating their "talent" but whether they fit your program character profiles that lead to proper talent development...
AU hasn't ignored the portal as they have a lot of players taken from it but, using it like Colorado has done, won't make the program sustainable in his opinion...
Over the past three recruiting cycles the Utes have taken 17 transfers, AU 20, ASU 59 and Colorado 73 but he makes a distinction between Dilly's set of circumstances and Prime Time's for this reason...
Both CU and ASU have faced desperate times but the Buffs only signed a handful of HS players this cycle while ASU took a regular type HS class...
So, in his estimation, Dilly "gets it" while he's not sure what Prime Time may be up to since that approach won't sustain the Buffs program over time, in his estimation...
Here's my speculation about that...is PT just trying to put his son, who is the Buff's QB, in a better position to land as a high draft pick after next season, to the exclusion of building a sustainable program over time at Colorado..??
He points out, getting back to the subject at hand, without my digression, that the Cats OL this season did not have a single transfer player on it...
The article also points out that none of the College Football Playoff teams have gone crazy with the transfer portal...
Between 2022 and 2023, the Huskies have added 19 transfers, Michigan and Texas 12 transfers, and Alabama 10 transfers...
After reading many of Dilly's recruiting comments, I think he is in total agreement with what was said in the article by Michael Lev, regarding this subject, this morning in the newspaper...
It's going to be interesting for me to follow the paths of the Four Corner schools after they go to the Big 12, to see how those four schools do when it comes to winning games and sustaining or not sustaining success by the way they recruit...
Thoughts about recruiting "speed dating" and whether it can lead to long term sustainable success or not..??
Go Dilly and Go Devils!!!
