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Message: [QUOTE="Skeets, post: 4283442, member: 10677"] The portal and immediate eligibility changes many things. I'm pretty sure one of those things is the level of angst a coach may have when a player announces they want to transfer. The coach can go shopping in the portal for another player, maybe as good or better than the player leaving. Prior to the portal, if all the HS kids were snatched up the coach didn't have very many good options. This portal situation weakens, but hopefully doesn't eliminate, "loyalty" on both ends of the relationship. Over the years I gravitated from MBB to WBB basketball because of the ability to watch young people grow into successful adults for 4 years, rather than "1 and done". The portal isn't helping that. [/QUOTE]