CTJ, I'm not calling you out here or anything, your comment just prompted this thought of mine so I'm raising this in a more general way. Also, sorry to break up the reminiscing about working at places like The Buckle and Fast Forward in the 90s malls...
So if we need a DL and we'll be seriously looking for help in the next portal window, which is something BB has said many times on OTF as well, then why again were we 'not interested' in Walter Nolen? He was a good player, right? That seems to be an obvious yes, so that leads me to believe either he had no interest in us or his asking price was just too high. Assuming it was his price then I wonder how that tradeoff will look when everything is said and done. What do we end up paying for the big portal help in April vs. what Ole Miss paid Nolen and how does that compare to the difference in talent. We'll never know, well probably I will never know, but if we're just 1 really good DT away from being better next year than this year's team, as BB has said, then maybe that price was worth it.