Fortune Gone- Now do we worry?
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Waiting for Homer's to tell why this isn't a bad thing...how the tsunami of defections is somehow a good trend.
Waiting for tootie to show up bitching about everything WVU....oh....wait.,.he beat me to it
Huge surprise.
It’s a loss for sure. But It’s happening everywhere. They don’t even have to tell the coaches they are doing it. They just contact compliance and make sure everything checks out.
Depends. If you think you should worry about something you have no control over, then yes. Fact is the NIL and Transfer Portal are not likely to go away and their very existence will only hurt anyone not a blue blood in their sport. WVU will have to adapt no matter how good the coach is, but it's even a taller order than it was before to win at a high level here.
Well if FB and BB programs like Oklahoma State, Iowa, or Virginia Tech manage better than WVU going forward, we would have a problem.
It always hurts when you lose a fotrune. Ha, ha.
But seriously, sad to say but this is the new normal. For those that think Brown should have been able to keep Fortune around, what exactly would you have him do?
I hate to say it, but I think we're entering the time when money plays a much bigger role. And WVU is a poor school relative to the ones they're competing with on the athletic fields.
I wouldn't be surprised if the following is what happened re. Fortune. Some other, bigger name school offered him decent money, as well as a chance to play at a bigger name school. And that school also has other good players on the team at the same position or perhaps portalling in that they'll pay too. All these guys will get some coin and plus they all probably think they'll end up being Da Man at that position. The competition will make the winner a better player and the losers of the competition will give the team quality depth. The fact that only one guy will end up starting means the others will be disappointed but it'll be too late for them by then and plus they'll have their coin as well as a shot to play more should the starter get hurt.
It'll cost that school (or more accurately, that schools boosters) more money to pay these multiple guys, but remember, they can afford it more than WVU can.
Not only does all this bode ill for the lesser rich schools, but it's not even as fun for fans of the richer schools. If WVU somehow manages to portal in a bunch of good players for 2022 and has a great season, then fine, but it won't be as nice as the old days when they had a good season and did it with guys that had been in the program for some years and that you got to know and felt some attachment to. Instead, now it feels more like everybody just gets the best mercenaries they can.
But seriously, sad to say but this is the new normal. For those that think Brown should have been able to keep Fortune around, what exactly would you have him do?
I hate to say it, but I think we're entering the time when money plays a much bigger role. And WVU is a poor school relative to the ones they're competing with on the athletic fields.
I wouldn't be surprised if the following is what happened re. Fortune. Some other, bigger name school offered him decent money, as well as a chance to play at a bigger name school. And that school also has other good players on the team at the same position or perhaps portalling in that they'll pay too. All these guys will get some coin and plus they all probably think they'll end up being Da Man at that position. The competition will make the winner a better player and the losers of the competition will give the team quality depth. The fact that only one guy will end up starting means the others will be disappointed but it'll be too late for them by then and plus they'll have their coin as well as a shot to play more should the starter get hurt.
It'll cost that school (or more accurately, that schools boosters) more money to pay these multiple guys, but remember, they can afford it more than WVU can.
Not only does all this bode ill for the lesser rich schools, but it's not even as fun for fans of the richer schools. If WVU somehow manages to portal in a bunch of good players for 2022 and has a great season, then fine, but it won't be as nice as the old days when they had a good season and did it with guys that had been in the program for some years and that you got to know and felt some attachment to. Instead, now it feels more like everybody just gets the best mercenaries they can.