Now that Georgia football’s season is over after losing to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, they enter offseason mode which can be a scary thing in college football nowadays.
The transfer portal has changed the landscape of college football forever and now fans have to spend all offseason wondering who from their team will depart the program and head elsewhere. The Bulldogs have already had a fair amount of players enter the portal before the Sugar Bowl, but former Georgia star David Pollack thinks that number is going to grow a lot this offseason.
“I think you’re going to have 25 plus portal additions,” Pollack said via ugawire.usatoday.com. “I think people are going to jump in the portal because that’s the world we live in.”
“I would be shocked if you don’t get to 30. I think you’ll get to 35 like that is the kind of action you’ll get in the portal.”
Can Georgia survive this amount of turnover?
It will be interesting to see how Kirby Smart and his staff handle this amount of turnover if they do in fact lose upwards of 30 players. As of today that number is very scary because Georgia has not earned a commitment out of the portal yet this year, so if they lose 30 players then Smart is going to have to act fast and add talent from the portal.
However, a lot of it does depend on who is leaving Georgia and entering the portal. So far they haven’t lost anyone who projected to be a major contributor next season, so there hasn’t been a huge need to hit the portal yet. But it’s likely just a matter of time until a significant player does enter the portal, and when that happens Smart will have to find a replacement immediately.
Georgia has found a lot of success in the portal in year’s past, so hopefully that will happen again this offseason and UGA will add multiple impact players to their roster next season.