Ive seen people saying we need to take a QB from the portal.

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Anyone who knows anything about Clemson knows that IPTAY was one...

Nov 30, 2023, 4:13 AM [ in reply to Please stop, these people want to imagine that Clemson is poor. ]

of the oldest legal fundraising entities for college sports. You're talking about people who have been IPTAY since their youth and many generational members. No one is trying to say Clemson is poor, we're just saying you don't buy a pig in a poke.

We spend a ton of money looking into the athletic and academic backgrounds of our recruits while paying just as much attention to their history which reveals the character within.

What you transfer portal fans misplace is any insight into the opportunity cost of spending time looking at people who very unlikely to have been recruited by Clemson when they left high school and nothing has changed other than they now feel they made a mistake by taking the offers they took then.

Rather than searching the portal Dabo feels his best investment is spending resources collecting data on those who will spend 3-5 years here rather than one.

For the very most stupid let me put it this way. You can spend a million dollars finding and recruiting a player to play here One year when you can cull through twenty and find one who will give Clemson the same results in three years while supporting starters for no less than two years.

It's freaking economics, stupid!