I looked and it showed TCU brought in 14 portal guys last cycle. Most if not all of them are starters or heavy contributors. I would imagine if I checked Tech, Kansas, Kansas St and probably a lot of others are using the portal to get better quicker.
I hope Sark and staff are doing all they can in the portal. Most every team, I am sure would rather build from high school recruiting but when you’re down and need to get better quickly you need to work the portal. I would say we haven’t had great success in the portal.
For as far back as Mack Brown days I always remember hearing Texas is so young. Strong came along and ran off 13 and recruited pretty good but we were still young. Herman came in and recruited good but not at all positions so we were still young. Sark comes in and has 30 something new on the roster so we’re still young. I say all this to say we need balance recruiting and portal so we aren’t starting a bunch of freshman. We have alot of 18 year olds playing against 22-23 year olds. It makes a difference unless you’re named Kelvin Banks but unfortunately there aren’t that many of those kinda guys. It’s hurt us against teams that are portal heavy Arkansas, Tech, TCU, Kansas. Just need to find a good balance. I’m sure they’re looking at this.
