HS recruiting vs portal

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Funny how a few years back the 2nd most important day in college football was the first Tuesday in February.

Then, for a few years, this reverted to early December.


We are now to the point that if nothing changes in NIL AS well as the absurd amount of money universities are demanding from fans, most college football teams in the power 5 will be having a 50% or better roster turnover every year. With the exception of an all world receiver or DB, why spend the time and money to recruit HS players who you know will be in the portal after their 2nd year in the program?

Instead of hiring a recruiting coordinator, why not spend the money on a portal talent evaluator?
 
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This is where I hope the skills of our AD can come into play. White seems to be a forward thinking guy. College football's been turned upside down. Luckily we have a competent AD who knows the situation far better than we do, and is making the right moves behind the scenes.
 
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1. High School talent will become secondary to proven portal talent.
2. HS recruits will see rookie style pay while the big money goes to the portal transfers.
3. The Roster Manager position will be as important as the Offensive and Defensive Coordinator positions.
4. Teams with big donors will dominate the CFB landscape due to NIL talent.
5. Alabama will institute a statewide NIL Talent tax to raise money for the football team (and a new NFL coach).
 
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It's a young old man's game now. Whoever can buy & field the best of the available 5th and 6th year seniors and Mormon missionaries has every football advantage over the best college juniors and underclassmen:

experience... prefrontal cortex brain development... body mass... muscle-to-weight ratio... all with no loss in speed or flexibility. In a game of rock-paper-scissors, those guys are rockscissors.
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My dad got his name in a Chattanooga newspaper only once as a starting lineman for his HS in Tennessee's smallest county, and that for getting kicked out of a game.

But Dad had watched the game from the stands.

Before the game, his coach had seen a guy hanging around who'd dropped out of school about 4 years earlier. He told my dad to go back to the locker room and give his uniform to this 22-year old dropout. So that's how Dad got his name in the paper--for spitting tobacco juice in a defensive lineman's eyes.

If there's a moral to that story, I guess it's that good etiquette can cover a multitude of recruiting violations.
 
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#1fulmerite said:
With unlimited (almost) spending availability, what other inducement's are going to be utilized to sway recruits; HS or transfers?
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Great question. I was thinking this same question about an hour ago.
Where I was working my company decided to get into a product line that was already available at a much larger company. Price couldn’t be the reason to cause customers to switch. The larger company would just undercut until we were put under. The decision was to offer better quality, better service, better delivery. The same will have to apply to recruiting. Better housing, better facilities, better benefits, and better culture. This will win the final decision. Not every one of them but you have an edge.
 
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