The time has come. The spring transfer portal window opens Tuesday, April 16th and remains open until the 30th. Speculation is that there will be a very high volume of portal entries among Power-4 schools. There are reasons to believe that CU will be losing more players, and that some may be with guys we don't want to lose.
The good news is that Sanders and his staff are very familiar with maneuvering the portal, so, given the availability of adequate NIL, we should be able to act quickly to fill holes. The bad news is that all of this is happening while CU is still involved in spring practice, with the spring game occurring only a couple of days before the portal closes. It's just bad timing.
I'm anticipating CU to have some losses that we don't want to see. As for high quality additions, it's anybody's guess. A real downside of this is that any newcomers we acquire through the portal won't have had the oppotunity to learn with the team during spring practice. That puts a heavy burden on pulling everything together during the August practices before our first game on August 31st.
The good news is that Sanders and his staff are very familiar with maneuvering the portal, so, given the availability of adequate NIL, we should be able to act quickly to fill holes. The bad news is that all of this is happening while CU is still involved in spring practice, with the spring game occurring only a couple of days before the portal closes. It's just bad timing.
I'm anticipating CU to have some losses that we don't want to see. As for high quality additions, it's anybody's guess. A real downside of this is that any newcomers we acquire through the portal won't have had the oppotunity to learn with the team during spring practice. That puts a heavy burden on pulling everything together during the August practices before our first game on August 31st.
