Like everything else in college athletics, the recruiting landscape is shifting dramatically under our feet, as the advent of the transfer portal and NIL dollars prompt teams to overhaul their traditional approaches to roster construction. Coaches have had to adjust to a new world where freshmen need to be very special — or at least uncommonly advanced — to find the field early for power programs that have gotten much older. When there’s pressure to win now, coaches are more apt to plug holes with short-term solutions through the transfer portal, rather than wait for freshmen to develop. And when[…]
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