2023 Portal Recruiting (CLOSED)

[TFloss32]

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[BWilk55]

Well they do already have 29 transfers incoming plus the 19 HS guys they signed. Just going to be very hard for that many new guys to gel at once. Can sign another 15-20 transfers this spring/summer.

If I am tracking the portal updates properly, I think they have 16 returners from last year at this point. To go with the 48 new guys they are at 64 scholarship players. They'll add some more bodies but getting 80+ scholarship players, especially quality ones, will be tough.

That said, I think Deion has improved the overall talent level on campus. 

 

[Baron]

Direct contact would be, but not much you can do to police third party talks.

This is nothing but semantics. If there were a ruling body like the NFL, collusion or a conspiracy would be ruled and punitive measures would be invoked.

 

[texbound]

Now isn't that the classic definition of tampering or am I missing something here?

Head, meet nail.

 

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[TFloss32]

This is nothing but semantics. If there were a ruling body like the NFL, collusion or a conspiracy would be ruled and punitive measures would be invoked.

That's the giant elephant in the room.

You have coaches publicly saying their players are being tampered with and it's crickets.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

IT is hearing some Alabama talk for Buchner, which makes sense considering their new OC is Tommy Rees who came over from Notre Dame.

They also mentioned Alabama put out some feelers for Maalik Murphy, but he didn't have interest.

Just based off nothing more than his stats, I don't know why anyone would be interested in Buchner. 

 

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[North Texas Golfer]

9 minutes ago, TFloss32 said:

On3 is showing that Deion signed 29 players in the 2023 recruiting class and has brought in 30 transfers so far. 

 

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[dssl]

This article on Colorado paints an ugly picture.

If you believe the guy quoted, Sanders didn't try to build a relationship with the existing players,  and wouldn't release practice film from LAST year to help the guys he chased off find a new school. 

https://www.on3.com/college/colorado-buffaloes/news/colorado-legacy-travis-gray-son-of-1990-national-champion-reveals-blunt-way-deion-sanders-cut-him-others/

 

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[TFloss32]

This article on Colorado paints an ugly picture.

If you believe the guy quoted, Sanders didn't try to build a relationship with the existing players,  and wouldn't release practice film from LAST year to help the guys he chased off find a new school. 

https://www.on3.com/college/colorado-buffaloes/news/colorado-legacy-travis-gray-son-of-1990-national-champion-reveals-blunt-way-deion-sanders-cut-him-others/

All of that aside, my big question is if he's vastly over-estimating the talent he can bring in to replace their departures, and how long the Coach Prime excitement will last.

Colorado has been bad for a long time (it'd be a difficult job for anyone) and chances are pretty good that Year 1 will be more of the same, so he's going to still be selling a total rebuild this time next year.

His current top recruit is facing multiple felony charges, and his second highest rated recruit already de-committed.

He's not exactly cooking with gas, so it's fascinating to watch from afar.

 

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[PTA]

Basically, Deion kept enough players around to have a spring game...and one last evaluation.

 

[TexCoyote]

Deion told them at their first meeting with the team that most of you won’t be here. I guess he’s standing by his word. It’s going to be hard to mesh this man portal guys with new recruits. 

 

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