Danzinrick said:
And if you get someone decent, even if you pay them there's no requirement for them to stay after a year.
Yeah, if you hit on a freshman at our level (meaning he has a big time freshman year); you pretty much have sealed your fate to only have them for a year.
I think selling out on high school recruits is the way to go if you can't afford to compete in the transfer portal for an ENTIRE team each year.
Ideally, this freshman kid comes in this year and becomes a stud. Hits the transfer portal and secures a huge NIL deal. Now SFA has a built in recruiting pitch to underrecruited high school kids. "Come here, develop, leave and get paid....or stay if you like it."
Sucks for fans who got see guys like Marcus Clark, Jacob Parker, Josh Alexander, Thomas Walkup, etc. develop over 4 years. It's reality. I think coaches who run from it will struggle to recruit, coaches who embrace it land high school guys they didn't typically get in the past.