Those are all successful programs and currently don't have to overpay for a top 5 or 10 QB. For a school like Miami, that has struggled, the cost would be much higher, and ROI for 1-2 years is dog ****. Why not sign the best portal QB each year and pray you can develop QB ranked 11-30 and spend the $$ at other positions to put those guys in a position to succeed.
You made a narritive then argued for It's relevance. It's just as possible in 6 months that 3 or 4 of the top QB are top 10 HS recruits at their original school. Players have a tendecy to improve. Not many had Mccarthy as a top 10 pick a year ago. The difference is you haven't even attempted to respond to any of the other questions.
Because it has never been done.
It doesn't even have to always be HS even a RS FR or SO next December is cool. You just want multiple yr guys if possible so you get a bang for your buck. What if you gamble on the portal and its a bad portal yr at that position. The CFB portal and NFL FA are both band aids usually you get a multiple yr guy.
Of that list who have been in college a season, you have:
I hear you, and would love to pull a top 5 guy every year but it's a bad business strategy to pay a million dollars for a guy that's probably gonna bounce after a year.
That’s why you recruit and develop guys like Emory that you know worst case scenario you can still win games with them but they aren’t necessarily NFL players. If you recruit at an elite level the bad for what you need your QB to do is lowered.
What's an elite QB is crazy. What's an elite anything in high school?
It’s not crazy at all. If you open up the check book for a HS QB elite means starting either immediately or by year 2 at the latest. Elite means NFL. NFL means multi year starter typically with QB’s that’s 3+ years of starting snaps.
If you believe every QB in the top 10 signs for a million you have been lead astray.
I'll just look for middle ground. Do you belive our QB depth chart is sustainable? Do you think it's fair to say we need to add more talent to our QB room? If the answer to either of those is yes I'm ok with moving this back to Flo predictions. If not, I'm also ok agreeing to disagree.
The number is arbitrary, the point is that resources are finite, use them wisely
Caleb Williams.
Lots of idiots on here but I do think that there really isn’t one right answer and we are figuring it out as we go. I was pro HS recruiting through and through and looked at the portal as more of a supplemental option. The early returns, and I stress early as this is only the third cycle of the portal/NIL era, say it actually may make sense to go the portal route over HS altogether. I mean look at some of our 2023 transfers out. We paid those guys a bunch of money for a year to do nothing. If we are going to treat it like a salary cap, we need to figure it out cause that was a blunder.
