- Many teams won't want to invest the resources into HS kids with feeling they will get poached.
- Players from the portal will be much easier to recruit from a time, money and energy standpoint. Not a lot of motivation for many teams to fish out of HS.
Serious problem. There needs to be a certain number of scholarship players entering the sport every year. About 5700 in Dvision 1 alone. Rules on scholarships need a serious rework, STAT!
About 22 players a team need to be added to the general pool. Maybe every team should be required to take in a minimum of 18 original HS players. Either way, there needs to be added incentives to recruit from HS. Keep the 85 limit, but maybe scholarship players out of HS should only count as 0.8 players and maybe transfers should count as 1.2 players. And since these guys are going to be more developed anyway, the fact that they take up a little more roster cap space, it shouldn't be that big of a deal. And if it ends up where one team has strictly portal players (which would about to 71 players... 85x1.2) and another team has strictly has nothing but high school players (102... 85×1.2) so be it. Obviously nobody I'd going to have anywhere near these exact totals.
As long as there is a minimum of about 5700 new Division 1 players a year.
With over 2200 players in the portal every year, a team not having a solid mix is going to be a near impossibility.
And off topic, maybe players who entered the portal and didn't find a landing spot (by a certain date) could fall to a team without penalty in the way of scholarship totals (if picked up) They'd certainly be falling to an undesirable team anyway. I feel mildly sorry for kids who squandered an education because of their stupid parents.
- Players from the portal will be much easier to recruit from a time, money and energy standpoint. Not a lot of motivation for many teams to fish out of HS.
Serious problem. There needs to be a certain number of scholarship players entering the sport every year. About 5700 in Dvision 1 alone. Rules on scholarships need a serious rework, STAT!
About 22 players a team need to be added to the general pool. Maybe every team should be required to take in a minimum of 18 original HS players. Either way, there needs to be added incentives to recruit from HS. Keep the 85 limit, but maybe scholarship players out of HS should only count as 0.8 players and maybe transfers should count as 1.2 players. And since these guys are going to be more developed anyway, the fact that they take up a little more roster cap space, it shouldn't be that big of a deal. And if it ends up where one team has strictly portal players (which would about to 71 players... 85x1.2) and another team has strictly has nothing but high school players (102... 85×1.2) so be it. Obviously nobody I'd going to have anywhere near these exact totals.
As long as there is a minimum of about 5700 new Division 1 players a year.
With over 2200 players in the portal every year, a team not having a solid mix is going to be a near impossibility.
And off topic, maybe players who entered the portal and didn't find a landing spot (by a certain date) could fall to a team without penalty in the way of scholarship totals (if picked up) They'd certainly be falling to an undesirable team anyway. I feel mildly sorry for kids who squandered an education because of their stupid parents.
