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OPINION: The transfer portal has decreased the value of following high school recruiting

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“I am committing to spend the next three to four years at the University of….”

Those words used to hit like music to the ears of college football fans, who love to follow college football recruiting. Those fans would follow closely as their favorite college football team showed interest in a prospect, be excited when the prospect received an offer from said school and would be through the roof when those words were said and the name of their favorite school followed.

The strength of those words has been fading away for years now, and this portal cycle may have officially rendered them powerless.