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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5351337, member: 488"] I'm not surprised - the market for basketball talent has always been much more efficient than the football market. Most of the top football prospects don't even see regular snaps until year three or four, at which point they're already draft eligible and not as likely to be wooed by the offers of other schools. It's just much more of a guessing game from beginning to end, which is why you're actually starting to see more parity in the portal era. It used to be that you brought 30-40 of the top high school prospects to campus and let the cream rise to the top. Now the cream is starting to leave after a year or two because they can play more snaps elsewhere. Basketball players are worth 300-400% more simply by virtue of playing a game with fewer players. Once you factor in both sides of the ball, it's really like a 22:5 ratio, since obviously basketball players play both offense and defense. [/QUOTE]