Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the Hub Day edition of the yard.

Hope you're having a great week. It's been a little different week, right? We've had so much going on for the last several months. I tell people all the time about the only time that we get any time off in our industry.

I'm not whining, but it's July.

That's it, because, you know, let's just say for an example,

we open up with fall camp, you know, and goodness,

I guess that'll be in July, you know, the end of July.

And then it's nonstop all the way through June we have

prospect camps you got baseball portal stuff in good years you have postseason

baseball you know there's just a lot very blessed to do what I do but there's not a lot of

downtime at least not for those of us that

actually work for a living but all that I understood I think now is a good time for us start talking

about some football stuff and so we're going to do that basically on every show between now and

football we're going to go ahead and start getting ready I know many people are just kind of like

Steve can we just talk about baseball portal stuff all the time? Well, we could, but we're not going to. And again, I don't think it's going to be a huge portal class most years for Brian O'Connor. Ransom numbers yesterday. The last two years that O'Connor was at Virginia. He signed five players in the portal each year. Last year was all pitchers. The year before he had, I think, two pitchers and a couple of catchers and one position player. But he's not a huge portal guy. And this year's different, obviously, as he's bringing some of his own players in. But, yeah, we expect double-digit portal guys when it's all said and done.

But I think this season will prove to be an outlier in that respect.

As O'Connor has said, he really wants to focus on high school players and development.

And so a lot to talk about.

But I don't think that baseball portal is going to keep us busy most summers.

I think most June, we're still going to be playing baseball.

And we'll take a look at the final eight in Omaha.

We'll take a quick look at that later in the show.

But we're going to talk some football.

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