Do you follow football recruiting like you used to now that players get paid plus transfer

Recruiting is honestly not worth following anymore, I guess if you’re a ckemson fan or uga fan it means a little more bc Kirby and Dabo are heavily invested in hs recruiting but for everyone else who knows. I haven’t followed recruiting in several years now.

Barely follow it at all, and I hate that. NSD used to be almost a holiday - sitting in the office and refreshing pages over and over.

frick no. I'm not being facetious when I say I don't see how anyone possibly COULD, assuming they are old enough to where they have a history of closely dedicated following in the "before times". If you're like 19 and just now getting into it that's another story.

Used to be you'd start hearing about some blue chippers during their SO/JR year of high school. Then you'd follow them through senior year. Anxiously await their decision. See them come to your school and probably redshirt or if they were truly great maybe even get some PT as a freshman. Work into a role of some kind by sophomore year. Junior year starter. Senior year team captain. Almost like your children, you watched them come in and grow up and then see them off into the next stage of their life.

Now kids will commit and decommit and recommit a dozen times all for the social media likes, end up going to whatever school offers them the most money at the 11th hour, stay there 1 year then repeat the process 2 more times each offseason, then go to the NFL without any real allegiance to anywhere they were before.

It'd be insane to have the same level of dedication to recruiting now as back then.

Nowhere near. A commitment isn't worth a crap now, especially if they are top 50.

don't follow it at all

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No. There is no enjoyment in it anymore.

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I never thought my interest in college sports would dwindle to the point where I barely care, but here I am. The portal, NIL, and a bowl season that no longer matters has fricked college sports.

No, i don't follow like I used to, and I'm not sure how things will work.

As an LSU fan- we just came out of the Brian Kelly rebuild, following Orgeron's collapse. Kelly loaded up in the portal a lot, and it kept happening. Kelly would bring in about half his starters from the portal, instead of them developing internally.
I'd hoped things would stabilize as he settled in after a couple seasons, but now he's gone and Lane Kiffin had to hit the portal bigtime. So again, I wonder, is that a one time thing, or do we have to do that every season?

I don't know if the players we even sign will ever see the field before they transfer.

I lost interest in football recruiting years ago.

I gave up following high school recruiting when they started doing the tricks with the hats and jerseys and all that other bullshite. Following those guys for 2 and 3 years just to have them flip at the last second is not good for my blood pressure. But, I do love following the transfer portal. I finally paid up for On3 this year because I know that Kiffin, Wade and Jay Johnson will be doing a lot of their work there.