The portal makes the amateur sports world look a bit more like the real world. In general if you have 10% turnover you are probably doing well with your talent strategy. That equates to 8-9 guys on scholarship every year for a D1 program to put things into perspective. It’s something else to navigate but I think they are doing ok.
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Dick Bennett did coach Wisconsin to the final four in 2000. He also coached his team to the finals in a lower level.
I think the Cougs are staring down the barrel of 4-8. Hope I'm wrong.
It will be interesting to see what happens. The roster has to be back to 85 soon enough. Kids leaving thru the portal may have helped that happen.
Kids are going to come and go when coaches dont change. New coaches arriving, more kids leaving, not surprised. There does come a point when it seems too many tho.
I agree, which is why I prefaced my previous comment by saying that I wasn't making a direct comparison between Leach and Rolo.
Leach drove me crazy as an x's and o's coach. I felt his system could have been significantly harder to defend if he would have incorporated some modernized versions of the air raid. His stubbornness was frustrating, but it's also the fiber of his character. It's his way or the highway.
Do I think that's the ONLY way to succeed? No, but I do believe that your system has to be followed by everyone associated with the program. If weight room check-in is 5:30AM, you need to be there by 5:30AM. If you break team rules, you will be disciplined. If you're a coach and you're not getting it done, you get placed on a performance plan and fired if it's not corrected.
To date, Rolo's slate is completely clean from where I sit. I haven't seen enough to form the slightest opinion on him or his system. He's a likeable guy who seems to genuinely appreciate what he has in life. He took a hard line with JDL, and that's exactly what needed to happen. Players have transferred out, but that happened with Leach as MSU last season as well. It's common after a system overhaul.
If Rolo's style is that of a player's coach, I'm OK with that just as long as it's known throughout the program that if you screw off and aren't adhering to team rules, you're gone.
I agree. It's too early to say right now how this will affect WSU, but I know that if I were the coach, I'd spin it to our advantage. The portal gives the kids who get starry eyed with programs like USC the chance to reverse their decisions when they see that they're 7th on the depth chart at WR. A good WSU head coach should be able gain through the portal more than he loses. It's just another recruiting complexity, IMO. No excuses.
If it were my staff.... we are meeting every kid on the West Coast. Every 3 star, 4 star, 5 star. Every kid that’s a Big Sky kid. Every kid needs to be met. Why?
Cause you never know what is gonna happen in the next 4-5 years. If any of those kids hit the portal down the road, do you wanna be meeting them for the first time? Or do you wanna have a history with them already in place?
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