I find this annual thread second only to the Kenner League hype thread as the most entertaining here. Random players and follows meaning almost nothing. There will be one or two players that will come out of left field to most here but they've been on the board from the day they went into the portal and staff is moving quietly. There are others who have not yet formally entered the portal but have had representatives reach out to gauge interest and if sufficient interest, then they go into the portal. The whole thing is just like NIL ... the wild west. You can try to read the tea leaves of former interest in GW, position or talent but we have a new staff who won't necessarily evaluate the player the same way as the previous staff once did or views positional need as different. They also came from places where they may have been recruiting other players who are not familiar to GW. Also, you do not know who can academically qualify to come to GW. My whole point, knock yourself out if this exercise entertains you with each entrance into the portal but CC is two steps ahead of you (as he should be) and is not reading this board for ideas. However, if I were a prognosticator, the thing I would look for most is not a GW connection but a Miami connection ... maybe a player that Miami once recruited but went elsewhere and is now in the portal. I am not saying by any means that is what CC will look for exclusively but familiarity helps. It was not by accident that guys like Cavanaugh, Armwood and Creek ended up here. ML had good familiarity with them. So if you want to play this game, forget what you know about who was recruited to play here under a previous regime and start trying to decipher who CC is familiar with, especially those from the DMV area.
Last edited by GWRising (3/21/2023 1:12 pm)