I'll admit, I'm not the most knowledgeable, so if I missed something or you disagree please feel free to stick it to me.

We are nearly through Summer. While they are staggered, we have gotten through much of the off-season for Football, Basketball and Baseball. In each of these, we've seemingly had astounding success, albeit slightly differently in their approach.

 

Basketball: A+

    Portal: Major attention, major gains (247 4t,  on3 2nd)

    Recruiting: Less attention, standout additions (Spears Jr.)

    Retention: Very little, but we only really needed Vokietaitis

For the experts, have we ever put a team this talented on the hardwood? I don't think we could've had a better off season for Basketball.

Football: A

     Portal: Moderate amount (most in portal history so far), major wins relative to their necessity (247 3rd,   on3 10th)

     Recruiting: Consistently amazing 

     Retention: Moderate amount in tandem with portal needs

With Meredith reclassifying, have we had back to back #1 classes? And, so far, steadily heading to seemingly another top 5 finish. It seems to me that Sark's team building skills have only been improving and that he is very good at adapting with the times in terms of juggling portal, recruiting and retention. Of course he then needs to prove it on the field with this caliber of team, but this is still extremely underrated aspect from a coach and is largely overlooked when evaluating coaches currently. We have not hit the portal as hard as this, and while it didn't fill out the team relative to Basketball, it seems like it will have great ROI regardless in terms of evaluation and need.  

 

Baseball: A- (?)

        Portal: Few additions, great success

        Recruiting: Personally uninitiated to this

        Retention: Major

Less bombshells from the Baseball side of things with the portal. Although now with Lugo and previously with Armstrong, we have added fantastic talent onto a team we pretty much retained from last season who finished top 5. It isn't in my wheelhouse, but it seems we've done similarly great on baseball if not better than what I've estimated.

 

Each sport attacked this off season differently. Basketball went portal heavily, Baseball retained a lot, Football balanced the two in between. Regardless, it seems that each sport will be set up to be at least top 10 preseason nationally based on talent alone. Of course, we must prove this talent on the field. But man, has there been a better outlook for the next year? Seemingly, each of these teams have reasonable paths to see hardware. Whether that is achieved, I'm sure they will all have damn good seasons anyhow. CDC has got us rockin, all that's left to do is get it done. Hook'em!

From my understanding, Baseball was more about retention and adding a few pieces through the portal. I'd say from what I've read from people who know more about it than I do, we knocked it out of the park in that regard. With some talented Fr heading to campus, too.

Basketball absolutely killed it in the off-season. Listening and reading Gerry's takes on this has been amazing and has me excited for that season to start.

Football filled all of it's needs and then some. Some great additions, good retention and hopefully this translates to the field. 

Basketball: A+ for sure. 

Football: A for sure

Baseball: MLB draft out of their control, but does that knock the grade down a little? They took some hits there, and you can't really truly recover due to timing of portal window. B+ to A-