No offense to you personally, but the comments and replies keep repeating the obvious in a steady stream of Loyalty anxiety. Brad has revived this program from the ash heap and has earned my trust. At this point, I only wish more of the negative posters shared that faith in his recruiting abilities.
No offense taken. To be clear, BU took a terrible situation and brought us back to life. None of this(at least on my end) is any sort of low blow at BU.
That said, I think the portal is beneficial in some areas, but it's completely ridiculous in others. Our approach is to depend on it. If Ty finishes his next two years here, he and Coleman will be the only two players who've stuck around for 4 years. Is that sustainable?
When we(any school) takes the approach and your season next year literally revolves 100% around transfers, the portal and NIL.....there's pressure. We still have, what, three/four more positions to fill? The daily traffic on these threads is off the charts because of the above.
As each coveted(or potentially covered) player comes off the board, it's going to create a "what's next" thought process. When attention turns to going across the pond, it's really going to create content.
In the "good ole days", these threads would revive around high school recruiting, AAU, summer leagues, etc, with eyes on three or four players. Now, we're eyeing 50 players and it's impossible to keep up.
I don't view people being negative or untrusting. We're in a completely different world now and everyone is rolling with it with their own thoughts because there's no reason to be negative of positive at this point. All we can do is discuss what we know and see at this very second and at this very second...we have major holes. I don't think that's an unreasonable take.
Your point is valid though.