Jihad Status for BG Game?

I think you can easily make the case that Lewis did as well as any MAC coach last year in recruiting the portal with regard to how those players contributed to building a "contending" roster.

Most reasonable people might consider that only teams ranked above 200 would be considered "legitimate" contenders. There are 4 of those: Akron, Toledo, Ohio and Kent.

In Anderson and Bailey, Lewis brought in players that contributed 28.4 points and 8.3 rebounds a game, along with 178 assists. (Obviously we'll never know what Brittain-Watts might have contributed).

Akron, considered the league's best team, had transfers (4) contributing 33 points and 11.1 rebounds a game, and 167 assists.

Toledo's portal yield last year was 1.4 points, 1.6 rebounds and 4 assists.

Ohio got 17.2 points, 5.9 rebounds and 79 assists.

Kent got 16.7 points and 6.1 rebounds.

Now those stats are from players that played significantly for their team so not all transfers might be included. Those numbers also don't' include previous transfers who were not new to their program this year. If we did that the numbers for Toledo, Ohio and Kent would be comparable to Akron, but we'd also have to go a back and somehow include stats for Sparks, Sellers and Coleman, who were part of Lewis' portal recruiting 2 years ago.

I often wonder if Lewis and/or members of his staff monitor this message board and what their opinions are or would be? Hopefully they have more important things to do (like recruiting), but you never know.

Your selectivity has left out portal players like OU's Jaylin Hunter and at least a couple of Toledo's starters and I don't know who all else, but includes BSU players who stepped into the scoring void of a bad, losing team with little to no competition for playing time and starting spots.  How many minutes and how many shots would Anderson get on a contending roster playing in meaningful games?  If Lewis's future portal recruiting classes are no better than last year's, it probably won't take until the last game of the season for BSU to be relegated out of the MAC tourney in years to come.

The salient facts are these

1) The roster is on a downward trajectory under Lewis, and it was not at all that great of a level to start with.
2) It has degraded to a point where we can't even MAKE the Mac tourney, let alone have success in it.
3) Recently successful MAC teams have demonstrated about a 60/40 or 70/30 ratio of portal to HS player comprise a typical contending line-up.
4) Lewis is likely to lose his one remaining above-MAC-average Whitford player to the portal.
5) Talent infusions from the portal happen much faster than from HS recruits

Conclusion:  Lewis has to hit the portal like a m-----f----- this off season.

Let’s not forget Ball U made the MAC tourney last year and lost by 20 in the first game.

So the players and coaching didn’t belong last year either.

. Toledo transfers had some time to fit in with a good coach. Our guys were forced into immediate key roles. Let's see how they do next year on a better team to answer your question.

Anderson and Bailey should be just fine next year.