…to help offset and complement our base recruiting efforts.

Basketball has shown this as well and while Pope’s use of the portal has been heavily criticized by some on CB, if they were to quit parroting the uninformed narrative and look at it objectively they’d see that Pope’s use of the portal staved off a certain collapse of the program years ago and bought him time with continued success until his recruiting base (LDS high school players) could serve missions, return and get playing experience.