Portal losses affecting depth

This is the new normal. 3rd or 4th year players sticking around and contributing as jr’s and sr’s will be rare

When kids start to realize that the grass isn’t always greener. Being a backup isn’t a bad thing but society as a whole doesn’t work for anything anymore.

Not all 3rd or 4th year players are the same. Position groups are also different.

An interior offensive lineman might be good and he’s done everything right on and off the field. However, he’s also the 4th best Guard on the team. No one can blame him for leaving to get playing time elsewhere before he runs out of eligibility. Especially when he might be better than half of the other Guards in FBS.

It’s hard to replace that type of player.

It is all relative. Of course we will lose depth. Kelly is do far this year, ahead of the competition in managing the losses. We so far have not lost it at a position of great need, and we are retention is a TON better than last year when we lost two starting CBs, a potential starting RB.

I do agree, the loss of Hill and Dumerville is frustrating as they likely would've been in the rotation 2023 if we have any injuries.

It’s the new generation of “if I can’t play I quit ! No such thing as team concept ! Or maybe they just weren’t good enough

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It’s the new generation of “if I can’t play I quit ! No such thing as team concept ! Or maybe they just weren’t good enough

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I disagree, but I'm probably closer to their generation than your.

The overwhelming majority of players will never sniff the NFL. If I spent two years in a system and the writing was on the wall that I'm looking at little to no playing time, I'm transferring to a place where I can play with the remaining eligibility I have.

I fault no kid for doing the same

This is a major issue for us and is being discounted by just about everyone.

This team lacked depth this year and now we have far more to replace/fill in than people understand.

Look at 247 Roster Composite for this year. 247 roster composite

We had 72 players on the roster that were rated with 3 stars or above. 72! Damn near every quality team has 83-85.

Go through that list and you will see you have to drop all the way down to West Virginia to see a team that has fewer than 72.

Yes we have great talent but we lack depth big time. Now we have to replace not only the 13 legitimate players that we did not have this year, but we also have to replace the Seniors, NFL guys and the transfers.

This is a much bigger problem than just saying "everyone is facing the same problem."

No, we are starting from a much different spot than everyone else.

Aren't you just a ray of sunshine . Do us a favor , pull for someone else . Geaux Tigers .

West Virginia had 1 five star and 8 fours.

LSU had 5 5 star and 33 fours.....I dont think you could even think that is the nearest comparison to us.

We are losing some back ups, we have an awesome class coming in and will get enough portal players to make things easy. A T/G that can fill both, and a G/C that can fill both will do wonders for depth.