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top 25 schools can't hoard all of the high school recruit talent. Alabama and Ohio State were never going after those underlooked 2 and 3 stars anyway. Those kids were always going G5 or FCS.
This is exactly what I alluded by saying outside the A&M, Georgia situations, which was only specific to the posters. Everyone only has top programs in mind. You mention top 25, but there's over 100 FBS programs. There's also a myriad of HS prospects outside the top 100 that makeup all of FBS rosters. It's not designed for the top 25 schools, but it undoubtedly benefits them by far. Like I said, these dudes leaving these top 25 programs are taking spots from HS kids and a lot of times it turns out there was a reason they didn't start at said top 25 school...Maryland, Oregon State, Georgia Tech...whomever...they see a 4 or 5 star recruit in the portal that went to Michigan, was unhappy there because he didn't play as a frosh, and they salivate over that. Limited to no college film on him, but hey, he was recruited by A, b, c, d, etc. schools, so we'll take him over a HS kid. Ends up in camp, is a dud and they have to deal with it while the kid from HS they wanted goes to Illinois who made room for him for another kid that has to go to Rutgers....so on and so forth, but in the dozens, no, hundreds.
You can have opinions on Deion, but I don't think he's a moron by any stretch. It's like one minute everyone loves him, but then he's a dumbass for his thoughts like they weren't humming his tune on 21st & Prime.
I still wonder if he's even as good a coach as it seems. I have my doubts, and always had, but I also think that's a different game, so to speak, than the recruitment aspect. And to that, I trust he's astute as you can be and I see a lot of validity to his claim.
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