Ikard and Lehman were talking the other day about how they don’t have the NIL to compete and that they need to find players to develop and coach them up.
I'll bet every Navy player was playing. They don't not finish what they started, that would be against everything the Navy stood for, star player or not.
One would think the service academies are positioned to do very well in bowl games as long as the portal wild Wild West exists. There are almost 60 scholarship players not playing in tonight’s Ark - Tech game. Neither team looks like the squads which played during the regular season
It’s almost like they planned the portal that way to tank the bowl games and consolidate viewing into several highly rated games to keep costs low and constant despite record viewer interest in bowls up until this point*