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We’re a month removed from the national championship game, and the players who transferred from Notre Dame and Ohio State have found homes. So that’s given us a good bit of separation from the winter transfer portal window.
Now that there has been time to assess all the roster movement, The Athletic spoke to 13 coaches and personnel staffers across the sport to get their insight on the most recent portal cycle — from players and portal classes they liked the most to how much it costs to land transfers and build rosters. Coaches and staffers were granted anonymity for their unfiltered thoughts.
The panel:
* Coach 1: Power 4 linebackers coach
* Coach 2: Power 4 tight ends coach
* Coach 3: Power 4 director of player personnel
* Coach 4: Group of 5 head coach
* Coach 5: Power 4 receivers coach
* Coach 6: Power 4 cornerbacks coach
* Coach 7: Power 4 head coach
* Coach 8: Power 4 general manager
* Coach 9: Power 4 general manager
* Coach 10: Group of 5 general manager
* Coach 11: Power 4 recruiting coordinator
* Coach 12: Power 4 general manager
* Coach 13: Former Power 4 scouting director
Which transfer who didn’t sign with your school did you like the most in the portal?
* Coach 1: Khmori House (North Carolina from Washington)
* Coach 2: (Receiver) Cooper Barkate kid from Harvard (now at Duke)
* Coach 3: (Offensive tackle) Howard Sampson, who Texas Tech signed. (Purdue offensive lineman) DJ Wingfield was a good get for USC. I wanted (linebacker) Taariq Al-Uqdah from Washington State who is going to Washington.
* Coach 4: Cam Vaughn, the receiver from Jacksonville State who ended up going with Rich Rod to West Virginia. The other one I loved, (quarterback) Chandler Morris (Virginia from North Texas).
* Coach 5: Miller (Moss, USC quarterback who transferred to Louisville). I liked (receiver) Eric Singleton (Auburn from Georgia Tech). (Quarterback) John Mateer (Oklahoma from Washington State) was a really good player. Nic Anderson at Oklahoma (who transferred to LSU) has some talent if he’s healthy.
* Coach 7: (Safety) Zechariah Poyser (Miami from Jacksonville)
* Coach 8: Max Klare, the tight end from Purdue (who transferred to Ohio State). He’s improving in all facets of his game but as far as what he does with his pass-catching ability and his route running, he’s a problem.
* Coach 9: Jayson Jenkins (Tennessee edge rusher) who signed with Florida State. I think he’s an NFL defensive end in the right scheme. Big kid, 6-6, 280, movement skills, length, physicality. He’s nice. The other one is Dillon Thieneman, the safety from Purdue who went to Oregon. He’s a dawg.
* Coach 10: Eric Rivers, the receiver who went from FIU to Georgia Tech. He’s a baller. Chris Murray, the edge rusher who went to Auburn. He was at Sam Houston but he’s a P4 talent.
* Coach 11: (Former UCF tight end) Randy Pittman. Great kid. He’ll be a great player for Florida State.
* Coach 12: Eric Singleton. He’s a real dude. Probably as good as you can get at receiver of guys that were jumping into the portal.
* Coach 13: I really liked (tight end) Jamari Johnson (Oregon from Louisville). I really, really liked (offensive lineman) Emmanuel Pregnon (Oregon from USC). I think he was a top-five player in the portal.
Whose portal class did you like the best?
* Coach 3: Ohio State did a great job. They just get really, really good quality. They’re very efficient with what they need in the portal. And Oregon. Both of those squads took some surefire guys and helped the areas they needed.
* Coach 4: Texas Tech and LSU, you could tell they’re going all-in. LSU’s committed to not just making the Playoff with what they’ve done but to winning the whole thing. Ole Miss, they continue to do it every year. It’s a down year for Ole Miss in the portal and they probably have the third-best portal class. I think Ole Miss has mastered NIL, the portal.
* Coach 5: Texas Tech was the one who came out of nowhere a little bit. LSU. Your staple teams, Ole Miss and Oregon, Miami, those guys are always going to be able to compete.
How much total money do you think your school needs to build a competitive roster in your league?
* Coach 1: I would say $10 million.
* Coach 2: Now we’re going into revenue share so you’ll be at that $21 million cap. So as long as your school is hitting your total revenue share, you’ll be OK.
* Coach 3: I would say probably about $13 million to $14 million to be competitive for the conference title.
* Coach 4: The goal is to always be in the top three (NIL-wise in our G5 conference). Next year I think that’s $4 million or $5 million. You’re looking at $5 million for G5s moving forward like, “Hey, if you want to be in the game, this is where you’ve got to be.”
* Coach 5: If you truly want to compete every year, you better be at $15 million-plus.
* Coach 7: We’ve got the numbers at $15 million. We won’t quite be at that. But from a football standpoint, with rev share you’ve got to be somewhere between $13 million and $15 million and also have the ability to get legit NIL for some guys. Another $3 million to $4 million of that will put you in the ballpark.
* Coach 8: $40-50 million. That’s where I think it’s going to go.
* Coach 9: If you’re talking championship level, elite eight-, final four-level, you need a $20 million roster for that. If you’re talking just competitive, winning eight or nine games, $10-$15 million. The people who spend the most are gonna have the best roster. That’s just what it is.
* Coach 10: In a post-House settlement world, the floor to being competitive in our (G5) league is probably in the $3-5 million range. Some schools will be higher, but in our conference, most of the schools will be in that range on an annual basis.
* Coach 11: If you actually want a chance to win it, you need $20 million. Anything less than that — unless you’re just a genuinely great X’s and O’s guy or developer — is going to get you just an OK team.
* Coach 12: Like, $13 million to $15 million. As long as everyone’s working within the rules and not going outside the cap, it’s hard to get much more than that. You can allocate more to football and go to $16 million or $17 million, I guess, but I don’t think everyone in our conference is at that number, either.
* Coach 13: I would say $17 million. To sign high school kids, pay your own kids and get players in the portal, $17 million is a good middle ground.
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