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re: 15 of the Top-100 just signed with 1 school.
Posted on 2/4/21 at 9:48 am to Lonnie Utah
Posted on 2/4/21 at 9:48 am to Lonnie Utah
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With the 85 Scholarship limit and the 25 yearly cap, student athletes are already restricted in where they can go.
Which is already wrong IMO, but that is simply a blanket, objective rule that only considers numbers. A "talent cap" would be the NCAA telling Johnny 5 Star from Atlanta that he has to go to Georgia Tech because according to a couple of recruiting websites Clemson, Alabama, and Georgia are already maxed out on their talent allotments. Nevermind the fact that recruiting website rankings change constantly. I mean does that kid suddenly get to sign with Alabama if one of our commits has a mediocre senior season and gets dropped from #60 overall to #108? What happens if a dude who commits to Clemson as a 3* junior blows up as a senior and ends up as a 5* in the final 247 rankings? Does that kid suddenly no longer get to sign with the school he has been committed to for over a year because he's too good now? It's just so unbelievably stupid.
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Posted on 2/4/21 at 9:55 am to Robot Santa
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A "talent cap" would be the NCAA telling Johnny 5 Star from Atlanta that he has to go to Georgia Tech because according to a couple of recruiting websites Clemson, Alabama, and Georgia are already maxed out on their talent allotments.
No, it would make teams offer the players that can really help them vs sending our 50 million offers to every kid in the top 300. What it would also do is eliminate the "Bama bump" that kids get when they commit to one of the top teams. In fact, teams WOULDN'T want their players to get that bump as it would hurt them the next recruiting cycle.
And it's not a stupid idea, it's an idea that would attempt to level the playing field for everyone except about 5 or 10 teams (at the max). It would prevent teams from signing all the 5*'s in a class simply to have them sit the bench for 3 years or enter the transfer portal after 2. It does require a paradigm shift in how we think about talent and talent evaluation when it comes to high school athletes.
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