Jedd Fisch on Older Roster

You mentioned after the game about, like you just said now, Iowa, so many fourth- and fifth-year guys, 22- and 23-year-olds along the line, and you are the youngest team in college football, and you want to build it that way through high school. But in the short term, when you have so many first-year guys, second-year guys, where is the balance there between developing those guys and also bringing in difference makers from the portal or whatever you have to do to stay contending? Yeah, that's a great question. you know i would say assuming um we're capable of signing everyone back then in a year from now we'll be looking at third year players second year players and first year players um which is something that we committed to to doing by playing you know the amount of young guys we chose to play or had to play um there's only so many resources you have to be able to go in the portal and it's going to have to be um decisions that the teams that go into the portal and play with the older players are committing a lot of dollars in the portal the teams that are playing um the older players like the Iowas and the Minnesotas are able to do it because they've stayed you know those are the players that have stayed in their roster and in their program year in and year out Thank you.