Is high school recruiting going to be a thing of the past?

[Jason Svoboda]

Obviously Deion was talking about this in the sense of college football, but I think we're seeing the same thing in college hoops. I would love to see the NCAA bump scholarships up to 15 or so. What do you guys think?

Deion Sanders Says the Transfer Portal is Like Free Agency

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[treeman]

Without even watching the video I thought about this all last season when the transfer portal was a mad house. Why would you recruit a high school kid at this point? if you do, there's more negative than positive for our level of CBB.

- He doesn't pan out and he transfers down. - negative
- You find your diamond in the rough and he transfers before his all-conference years (this already happened to us). - negative
- He is a bad player and sticks around 4 years. - negative
- He is a average player and sticks around 4 years. - not terrible but doesn't win your championships
- Or you find your diamond in a rough and for some reason he sticks around 4 years. I can only see this happening if you are a local kid or some other tie to the university for us. Example would be Jake Odum. - This scenario seems like something I'll be telling my grandchildren about 40 years from now.

Recruiting high school kids is high risk low reward for MVC teams. Transfer portal leaves you with thousands of players either proven or unproven at the D1 level that are typically bigger, stronger, more mature and ready to compete. Unfortunately, I can see mid-major basketball is going to be a resume' builder for majority of athletes for the foreseeable future.

 

[Bluethunder]

I still don’t think it will be as devastating to mid majors as many think. The door swings both ways and for every kid like Key who becomes all conference and moves on there will be kids like Khristian Lander who were five star recruits, went to big school and couldn’t see the floor.

There are just too many good players out there for the big schools to get them all AND keep them happy.

 

[BrokerZ]

I actually think it’s good for mid majors. Musselman at Arkansas mentioned it earlier this year. Said when he was at Nevada he used transfers almost exclusively because finding the diamond in the rough in high school was way too hard. Now that he’s at Arkansas, he can recruit 4-5 star high school players, and that’s really the better way for him to build a program.

I don’t know what the right mix is exactly, but I’d be fine with 50/50 high school and transfers in our recruiting.

 

[hans1950]

Key was even kind of a fluke if not for covid he would have finished at ISU. Am I correct that an athlete can only transfer once without sitting out for a year?

 

[BankShot]

I still don’t think it will be as devastating to mid majors as many think. The door swings both ways and for every kid like Key who becomes all conference and moves on there will be kids like Khristian Lander who were five star recruits, went to big school and couldn’t see the floor.

There are just too many good players out there for the big schools to get them all AND keep them happy.

Lander graduated his Jr. yr. of HS and was neither physically or mentally ready for Big Ten ball. Boy did he get railroaded by his "voices." If he was WISE, he'd enter the portal & play (not occupy the end of the bench) for a mid-major where he belongs.

 

[sycamorebacker]

Key was even kind of a fluke if not for covid he would have finished at ISU. Am I correct that an athlete can only transfer once without sitting out for a year?

correct

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Key was even kind of a fluke if not for covid he would have finished at ISU. Am I correct that an athlete can only transfer once without sitting out for a year?

Correct. There have been several proposals being floated that they also want to add immediate transfer eligibility if the head coach is fired/leaves. We'll see if they get put forth in front of the rules committee.

 

[sycamore tuff]

Here's a proposal for ya. If you decide you want to transfer you have to sit out a year. Applies to players and head coaches.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1503912108198608904

 

[Jason Svoboda]

This is definitely playing out. I see a lot of HS coaches out on Twitter pleading for colleges to give their kids looks. While that happened before, the occurrence of it now is magnitudes different.

 

[4Q_iu]

This is definitely playing out. I see a lot of HS coaches out on Twitter pleading for colleges to give their kids looks. While that happened before, the occurrence of it now is magnitudes different.

This is the result of letting the inmates run the asylum --