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Message: [QUOTE="Get a Job, post: 5157259, member: 9775"] Someone requested we stop filling the tampering thread with the discussion of the effect of the transfer portal system on high school recruiting. Ask and you shall receive! To summarize my point made over several posts in the other thread: Since the number of FBS scholarships is fixed, all players leaving FBS each year need to be replaced by players that weren't in FBS the previous year. This is true regardless of who transfers and where. Every player who receives a new FBS scholarship was once a high school student, regardless of whether he went from high school directly to FBS, or if he had one or more stops in between. Therefore, transfers have no net affect on the number, on average, of high school players each year who will get an FBS scholarship. In other words, before the transfer portal, it was the case that X number of high school students from every graduating class ended up on FBS rosters (where X = (Number of teams x number of scholarships allowed per team) / 4 years of eligibility). After all the rule changes, and ignoring the anomaly of covid eligibility rules, the number of high school students from each high school class that will end up on FBS rosters is still X. [/QUOTE]