'27 TN CB Miles Brown (Kensucky commit)

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EastTNVol95 said:
Picked up a crystal ball from a Kentucky insider today unfortunately.

Would be brutal to lose both Brown/Barnes to them when you've already missed on Chandler and Simon in the last couple weeks.
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Sorry in the era of the portal instate losses are no longer brutal at all. It doesn’t matter if we don’t get any of the top instate guys.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Sorry in the era of the portal instate losses are no longer brutal at all. It doesn’t matter if we don’t get any of the top instate guys.
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You really have two methods to build rosters; youth>development>retention, or transfer portal roster sculpting. You have to do one of them very well. If we show an eagerness and an ability to flex in the portal next year, I think it will help alleviate the concerns of those who see us losing kids in our own state left and right. If we take another half-hearted stab at the portal next year, people will be rightfully concerned.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Sorry in the era of the portal instate losses are no longer brutal at all. It doesn’t matter if we don’t get any of the top instate guys.
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Spending money on impact players like David George’s & Kesean Bowman are a good investment but developmental guys aren’t worth breaking the bank for.

It’s Transfer portal or nothing.
 
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My hope is that seeing these in-state kids go elsewhere is a sign that Heupel has finally seen the light on the portal. We've tried the developmental route the last couple seasons, but it's obvious a new approach is needed if we are going to really make a run in this current era.

Truth be told, most of our best players under Heupel have been transfers when you really think about it (Hood, McCoy, Norman-Lott, Brazzell, Thornton to name a few).

Only time will tell if that's why we are seeing these kids go elsewhere but if it means we have more money to attack the portal next season I'm all for it. The sport is a grown man's game right now and you aren't competing for championships with a roster that is half 18 and 19 year olds.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Spending money on impact players like David George’s & Kesean Bowman are a good investment but developmental guys aren’t worth breaking the bank for.

It’s Transfer portal or nothing.
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So what do we think in terms of total numbers in the high school class?
 
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benholt06 said:
So what do we think in terms of total numbers in the high school class?
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Still going to be healthy size. Heupel wants to build a team properly through high school recruiting still, but you simply can't justify paying a lot of money to a kid bc he is rated high if he is not going to play for 2-3 years and then transfer. Or if you think you can find similar caliber of player for a better rate. I know the optics suck when you lose out on in-state kids, but there are so many talented players each class on the perimeter and they are in the mix for a ton of them, at least defensively
 
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