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[QUOTE="Get a Job, post: 5157309, member: 9775"]
OK, I can see the situation you describe in your first two paragraphs resulting in fewer spots for high schoolers. (I would note, however, that the pearl-clutchers decrying the fact that the transfer portal takes opportunity away from high school recruits would likely also view players staying in school longer as an unambiguously good thing.)

I do not follow the point in your third paragraph. It looks to me like what you describe is exactly a zero-sum game. And, similar to my parenthetical point above, this also strikes me as a positive aspect of the transfer portal, resulting in more opportunity for young people, albeit perhaps not high school recruits, per se.

Your fourth paragraph seems irrelevant to my point. It has already been acknowledged that a team that can pick between a seasoned college player and a promising high school player will often opt for the former. But somewhere at the end of the chain a new player who didn't have a scholarship the previous year is getting one for the new year (be that a high school recruit or someone else).
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