Indiana is likely to lose a ton of players including some of the best to the portal. But to date the net transfer quality of incoming to outgoing has been way in favor of the positive. Most of the guys that transferred in last year made an impact. Henderson, Shivers, Colby, Simmons, Bazelak, Jennings and the same can be said on rest of the defense. The reality that Tom Allen has improved our recruiting, but overall it's still really crappy. The talent evaluation has been horrible. On a per player basis the success rate on transfers is way higher than high school players. We are doing much better picking up guys who are not good enough to make it at other schools than we are recruiting high school players. Coming out of high school everybody things they are going to start in college. With the portal nobody is willing to sit on the bench and develop anymore so the Indiana's of the world if they are aggressive are going to end up net positive by picking up the bench players from the top twenty teams. Teams like Indiana can also load up on upperclassmen and equal out their talent disadvantage with an experience advantage. A three star fifth year is often better than a four star freshman. Let's see how this shakes out, but honestly looking at what has happened to date, this chaos is going to be net positive for Indiana probably in a major way. The statistics so far have been very much in favor of Indiana.
