As of now, pending any other commitments,
I’d say that the net grade of this year’s transfer portal haul taking into consideration both ingress and egress is probably around a C. We kind of did almost exactly what I was worried about in emphasizing stars and “name” and potential over productive experience, but I suppose I have to just trust that with a full year at the collegiate level under their belts, the staff got a lot better at talent evaluation. I do like some of the guys we’re bringing in- I like the production of the LB from Richmond, and I like the size of some of the OL and TE in particular. I think we downgraded a bit on the DL in terms of productive experience, and I don’t think we have yet brought in enough instant impact type OL. I don’t think we landed- or seemingly attempted to land- the “big game” at QB that we were told the staff was planning to hunt. So overall I’d give us a C/C+ in the portal, which seems about right for a class currently ranked 7th in the ACC. With the schedule we’re going to have we are going to desperately need for the staff to have hit it out of the park in evaluation and hope that an inordinate number of the guys who are coming in with limited experience and/or previous injuries exceed expectations.
