Blers42 wrote:Oh how times have changed from when you all were preaching about how much better the MVC was going to be than the A10. The transfer portal has been a nightmare for the MVC which was already a one bid league.
I don't think so; yeah we are losing some stars , but I see teams getting a lot of quality out of the portal to fill their rosters. And if you think it's not happening in the A-10 then look at Bonnie, who lost their entire starting 5 and is returning exactly 4 points now.
I look at us [MSU] , and we've had a great year in the portal. We were losing Prim to graduation, and Mosley was always gonna be tough to keep 4 years . We lost some role players around those two[ Black, Patterson, Sharp, Haney] but got a lot better return on paper. I love our roster right now; whether we can get that many moving parts in sync , we'll see. Other teams do it .
I just think this is the way it's gonna be for most teams below the elite [ and the A-10 isn't among em] , that being adjust or struggle . Yes we will lose elite talent, but yes, we can access better talent than what we generally had , via the same mechanism - the portal. I don't like it, but it's like anything else; figure out how to make it work .
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