Cool, they went 8-3 last year and improved this season while still recruiting against FCS programs, Tulane went to the Cotton bowl and beat USC and their heisman trophy winner. I’m pretty sure they had guys other teams would want.
Look, we are missing the point of the convo. Wake needs to continue to use the portal to bring guys in and use the NIL to minimize losing our guys to the portal. We need to use the portal the same way we recruit, find under recruited guys who will thrive in our system. We failed at that this year. It’s possible for lower tier teams to keep their guys and improve. Wake isn’t the only team who lost their starting QB to the portal last year so we can’t act like we are at a disadvantage compared to everyone else.