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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4013972, member: 10"] Interesting article. So if this is true does it leave more recruits for programs who would rather develop players? Hurley seems to like developing players so will this make it easier for him to recruit? Will mid-majors be able to backfill their roster with better recruits, even after losing some existing players to high majors? I think it makes it even more important for the coach to have really good relationships with his players and recruit the right kids. It's an interesting dynamic that really changes the way recruiting is done. [I]"I'm supportive of the one-time transfer thing, fully," said Pitt coach Jeff Capel. "But I think the people that it'll hurt the most are high school kids." [URL='https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/teams/AUBURN/auburn-tigers/']Auburn[/URL] coach Bruce Pearl expanded on that thought. "We're going to end up probably taking half as many high school prospects as we would've taken before," he said. "Over a period of four years, in the past, we might've taken three or four high school players a year on average. Now it's going to be one or two." That's a sentiment I heard from countless coaches over the weekend -- their point being that it'll rarely be sensible going forward to sign high school prospects early who don't figure to play for you as freshmen because A) you can probably find somebody better in the transfer portal, and B) now that players are allowed to transfer without sitting out a season, there's a decent chance you'll spend a year developing a limited-role freshman only to lose him after that year to a school that offers more playing time.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/how-new-ncaa-transfer-rules-have-coaches-changing-the-way-they-recruit-high-school-prospects/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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