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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 132025475" data-attributes="member: 1812660"><p>I think you miss the point of most fans' concerns. How many 4 and 5 star players fizzle out or just turn out to be average? Recruiting college football, just like NFL drafting, is not an exact science. The best way to know if a player is good is to see them on the field against a level of competition as close as possible to what your team competes against. So now coaches can recruit with a more exact science by looking at other FBS teams' rosters</p><p></p><p>Slaton was a 2 star RB prospect and Gwaltney was a 5 star RB. After watching them play though, it was Slaton that gave 5 star results and would've been a welcome addition on almost any team in 2006 and on. Now imagine is Slaton could've just transferred at will?</p><p></p><p>The NIL and ease of transfer may actually help teams like WVU in recruitment from high school, but has the potential to be even more of a liability in regards to retention. The best of the best 5 stars are still the blue bloods for the picking, but the lower 5's and the 4's may be more likely to go to a place they think the competition to see the field is less knowing that they could move up at any time if they perform. </p><p></p><p>Say you have a 4 star player wanting to go to OSU or Penn State. Before this era, that player would have to go to that school even if he was worried he couldn't beat out the starters because the player was actually committed to that school. Now that player can go to the WVU's of the world thinking he will have a better chance of seeing the field early. If that player turns out to be elite, he can go to his dream school or to a "contender" later. If the player doesn't turn out to be elite, he can be the big man on campus at a mid tier school. Win-win for the recruit. </p><p></p><p>However for WVU, any possibility of competing for a national championship has always been dependent on a great coaching staff who can take a handful of elite players along with some solid role-players to scheme/luck them into a long shot chance. WVU was never going to pull in 4+ star rated recruiting classes year in and year out to consistently compete at that level. So now when the coaching staff manages to find the few "diamond's in the rough" or highly rated players that choose WVU, keeping them for the 3 years it takes to build a team around just got a lot harder. And if WVU did want to have another outside shot at the NC like the 1988 or 2007 football teams, it can not afford to lose ANY elite players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 132025475, member: 1812660"] I think you miss the point of most fans' concerns. How many 4 and 5 star players fizzle out or just turn out to be average? Recruiting college football, just like NFL drafting, is not an exact science. The best way to know if a player is good is to see them on the field against a level of competition as close as possible to what your team competes against. So now coaches can recruit with a more exact science by looking at other FBS teams' rosters Slaton was a 2 star RB prospect and Gwaltney was a 5 star RB. After watching them play though, it was Slaton that gave 5 star results and would've been a welcome addition on almost any team in 2006 and on. Now imagine is Slaton could've just transferred at will? The NIL and ease of transfer may actually help teams like WVU in recruitment from high school, but has the potential to be even more of a liability in regards to retention. The best of the best 5 stars are still the blue bloods for the picking, but the lower 5's and the 4's may be more likely to go to a place they think the competition to see the field is less knowing that they could move up at any time if they perform. Say you have a 4 star player wanting to go to OSU or Penn State. Before this era, that player would have to go to that school even if he was worried he couldn't beat out the starters because the player was actually committed to that school. Now that player can go to the WVU's of the world thinking he will have a better chance of seeing the field early. If that player turns out to be elite, he can go to his dream school or to a "contender" later. If the player doesn't turn out to be elite, he can be the big man on campus at a mid tier school. Win-win for the recruit. However for WVU, any possibility of competing for a national championship has always been dependent on a great coaching staff who can take a handful of elite players along with some solid role-players to scheme/luck them into a long shot chance. WVU was never going to pull in 4+ star rated recruiting classes year in and year out to consistently compete at that level. So now when the coaching staff manages to find the few "diamond's in the rough" or highly rated players that choose WVU, keeping them for the 3 years it takes to build a team around just got a lot harder. And if WVU did want to have another outside shot at the NC like the 1988 or 2007 football teams, it can not afford to lose ANY elite players. [/QUOTE]
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