Do you still look at high school recruiting the same?

Yeah it crossed my mind with the unlimited transferring fewer will graduate.

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With Bama paying players under the table and no one honoring their commitments, it was hard to get invested in it.

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It is GREAT to be king. Kneel peasants.

I don't look at it quite the same...

But I still stick to the fact that if your team got a player my team wanted.... YOU CHEATED!!!

Why would you? To me, recruiting is now a year to year thing across classes. You have to re-recruit practically your entire team every season. Blue chips any given year will be on a wait and see basis with programs with larger bank accounts.

I would absolutely hate being a college football coach right now. Without contracts or proper rules for NIL, it's far worse than being a pro coach.

The unlimited free agency for players is going to have a reckoning at some point. The carrot will be schools or associated 503 paying the football players, the stick will be contractual agreements that require all parties to consent to ending the contract before terms are complete (with a litany of player and school advantaged termination triggers of course).

We're in the Wild West era of NIL+transfers because the NCAA has abrogated their interests on this front due to a litany of litigation Ls. Eventually the power players are going to agree that something must be done to rationalize the labor-side business of the sport. Part of the reason the NFL doesn't have a D-League is because they know most of these high schoolers are poisonous assets to hold. Eventually several school's collectives are going to get over-committed to dead weight and the money is going to demand a reckoning.

What an interesting day for a Bama fan to make a thread about how he finds HS recruiting less relevant lolol.

Never change gumps

No. With NIL leveling the playing field and making bag men obsolete, the quality programs will do well and the snake oil salesman will move along. Recruiting is more fun than it’s been in a long time.

As of today, Saturday, Texas has room for 4 transfers, w/ 3 of those committed. Another 0-5 may enter the transfer portal.

Of the 2023 recruits, ~ 75% are early enrollees and will be on campus next week and will go through spring practice.

Identifying the right guys w/ the commitment to graduate early, and not the prima donna’s, matters.

Yeah Alabama is recruiting well. But, I think we have an average coaching staff in place so I question our player development at this time. I think player development is as important as player retention.

Say what you will about Harbaugh and Norvell at FSU, but I think they've done an excellent job of recruiting the portal and high school along with player development. I feel UGA and Bama recruit at a similar clip but UGA has a better staff/better player development than Bama.

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They will want a return on their investment

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Where will their return ever actually be outside of personal happiness seeing their team be good? I just don’t see how it’s sustainable for boosters to continue to invest tens of millions each year when there is no financial incentive like there is for a pro franchise owner. Like what’s really in it for them at the end of the day?