by CBDragon » Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:36 am
I wanted to follow up and say that I had a TON of fun with the transfer portal. I liked it way better than the normal recruiting. The normal recruiting is long...and hard for a low prestige program. Which is probably realistic. But, it just gets depressing doing recruiting week after week, spending IRL time building my watch list, texting the players, coordinating visits, and then little to no progress on any recruits each week. The transfer portal though? It's a quick 5 weeks. I loved the different pitch options with the strategy and costs involved. I had quite a few players that actually seemed interested (as opposed to the 2-3 in normal recruiting). I landed the Great South Player of the Year at SG and the RMC Freshman of the Year at C plus an additional starter at PG. I had only landed one "normal" recruit (albeit a pretty good one) so adding 3 decent/good players via the portal was very satisfying. I also had one player leave (conf freshman of the year). Oh well. Anyway, the transfer portal was fast and fun. The only thing it was missing was a watch list as I had to find the guys that I was interested in again every week.