College football is now a professional league and building your team primarily through high school recruiting is akin to building through the draft. In the NFL when you build a team through trade and free agency you know what you are getting, but draft picks are much bigger unknowns. A lot of teams over spend on first and second rounders that don't pan out, when that money could have been spent on known quantities. I hate where college football is today and I understand why college coaches rail against going heavy on the transfer side, but it is the new reality. Old Miss rebuilt a team in one year that flipped the trajectory of the two teams. We dominated Old Miss 52-17 last year and dominated the line of scrimmage. Kiffin said he learned a lesson in 2023 from that and so he went to the free agent market and completely flipped the narrative around. Yesterday Old Miss dominated the LOS. This doesn't mean you have to go overboard on the transfers, but you have to shore up weaknesses immediately, not by recruiting high school kids and waiting for them to develop. We also need to quit wasting money on unproductive players and essentially "trade" them for better players. This means getting more productive transfers, spend the money necessary for the good ones, and jettison unproductive players. I know this sounds harsh, but the day of amateur athletes is long gone, and that is the reality of professional sports.
We can no longer build through the draft
- Thread starter Moise
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