No, I know. We’ve had players leave to go do ok elsewhere before. It happens. But the portal game is relatively new.
There are probably other examples, but one guy I always liked but for whatever reason Shannon/Whipple wouldn’t play him much, but every time he carried the ball, it seemed like he would always rip off of 5 to 8 yard gain.
Shawnbrey McNeal.
So he transfers, and runs for almost 1200 yards at SMU. Not only that, he at least bounced around a little bit in the NFL. During that time we had no comparable running back. Coop was good, but this guy was tougher.
We had that guy in our stable of backs and never used him.
Now that’s a guy that was misused. Tell me one guy during that time that was better than him. He could’ve at least been our number two back the years he was here, but he didn’t get much of a chance.