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The transfer portal will force coaches to be much more honest about a prospect's first year or two on campus because any dissatisfied player might just opt to shop for different options in the portal.

Actually, I think the opposite is true. The coach can lie like hell, get a bunch of good players on campus, play the best ones and let the ones who don't play leave. In the previous system he would be stuck with players who weren't going to play and couldn't leave. They would eat up a bunch of scholarships. Now, they will leave, freeing up scholarships to suck in the next set of recruits or transfers. Geno is crying crocodile tears. The high profile programs will benefit, because they can effectively "cut" players and replace them with better transfers or new recruits. Rinse and repeat. Previously, they were stuck with them.

Isn't there still a limit on scholies/team?  If so, I'm not sure how you can more effectively "cut" players and replace them in transfer portal world, if that player wants to stay at the university.  You always had coaches who ran off "steak eaters" from the roster, even at Stanford (though admittedly, much less common).  I do agree that the teams on top are much more likely to stay there in free-agency, transfer portal world.

The ones I feel most sorry for are the coaches of lower level (or even division) schools, who find the diamond in the rough, give that kid a platform to shine, only to have that player bolt for Bigger Programs.  Don't blame the kids; but man, that would suck as a coach.  (Seems to me the transfer portal world will only make coaches bailing on their schools for greener pastures MORE likely than it is today).

[teejers1]

The transfer portal will force coaches to be much more honest about a prospect's first year or two on campus because any dissatisfied player might just opt to shop for different options in the portal.

Actually, I think the opposite is true. The coach can lie like hell, get a bunch of good players on campus, play the best ones and let the ones who don't play leave. In the previous system he would be stuck with players who weren't going to play and couldn't leave. They would eat up a bunch of scholarships. Now, they will leave, freeing up scholarships to suck in the next set of recruits or transfers. Geno is crying crocodile tears. The high profile programs will benefit, because they can effectively "cut" players and replace them with better transfers or new recruits. Rinse and repeat. Previously, they were stuck with them.

Isn't there still a limit on scholies/team?  If so, I'm not sure how you can more effectively "cut" players and replace them in transfer portal world, if that player wants to stay at the university.  You always had coaches who ran off "steak eaters" from the roster, even at Stanford (though admittedly, much less common).  I do agree that the teams on top are much more likely to stay there in free-agency, transfer portal world.

The ones I feel most sorry for are the coaches of lower level (or even division) schools, who find the diamond in the rough, give that kid a platform to shine, only to have that player bolt for Bigger Programs.  Don't blame the kids; but man, that would suck as a coach.  (Seems to me the transfer portal world will only make coaches bailing on their schools for greener pastures MORE likely than it is today).