No, this would have helped us tremendously last year, there was also another external factor at play last year
Last year the timelines was:
March 24 - Transfer portal opens
April 1 - Buzz is hired at Maryland
April 4 - Bucky is hried
April 7 - Championship game
April 7 - anticipated acceptance of the House settlement - This was important because everyone was anticipating that from this point onward there would be a sort of salary cap in place and so everyone was trying to get players signed before this deadline. This ended up not being the case, but nobody knew it at the time.
We'd have been on much more level footing if the portal didn't open until the 8th.