The way I’d do it is absolutely crush it with the intro press conference ✅
Then I’d sit back and plan my next big statement. Several teams making big splashes in the transfer portal, but what if we did a cannonball off the high dive? How would it look if we secured commitments from 5 of our top 10 transfer portal targets, but had them all wait to announce it together? Then on the team socials you put up their pics in UK gear with the caption #IGotMy5
It would be another reversal from the Cal era where everyone needed their special moment to do anything. It would be a huge statement, kinda showing “we planned this, we’re already a team”. Makes it so much less about the individual and “how much is their NIL deal??”. Then just the optics of landing 5 transfers in one day and everyone just being like “yo WTF did Mark Pope just pull off!!?? 🤯🤯🤯”.
Then I’d sit back and plan my next big statement. Several teams making big splashes in the transfer portal, but what if we did a cannonball off the high dive? How would it look if we secured commitments from 5 of our top 10 transfer portal targets, but had them all wait to announce it together? Then on the team socials you put up their pics in UK gear with the caption #IGotMy5
It would be another reversal from the Cal era where everyone needed their special moment to do anything. It would be a huge statement, kinda showing “we planned this, we’re already a team”. Makes it so much less about the individual and “how much is their NIL deal??”. Then just the optics of landing 5 transfers in one day and everyone just being like “yo WTF did Mark Pope just pull off!!?? 🤯🤯🤯”.