High school recruiting is dead according to deion sanders

I guess it makes sense for football. The vast majority (90%+) of College football players are not starters as Freshmen, so they are usually only relevant as juniors or seniors. HS recruiting is therefore pretty irrelevant when a College can get a College Soph or junior instead of a HS senior.

It won't work. He won't find that many quality players in the portal who want to go to CU. He wouldn't be able to create the culture he wants if the majority of players are there for such a short time.

Actually not a new thing. For years college soccer coaches have focused more on elite travel team tournaments due to evaluating players against higher quality competition. Combined with the weakness of some high school programs and the ability to see more prospects at one site. The same is true with volleyball and softball. However not all 'travel tournaments' are the same.

NIL completely changed the landscape

For the stars, time in the program probably doesn't matter much. But for the tier down in talent, getting 2 years to learn routes, blocking assignments, and so on has value. Physical maturity isn't the only reason why people tend to play better as seniors than as sophomores.

But maybe he is right. Look at basketball where you get whole new teams every year...

And if anyone ever cares about XC, how many teams with 3-4 guys go all in to get those last scorers...

So he's saying he wants a second shot at athletes not able to start another schools instead of first shot at Superstars coming out of high school.

No, he's saying, let me have a sure shot at starters from other programs that have already proven themselves at the college level. His pitch will be "now that you are a likely pro, come play for Deion. You'll get a bigger NIL and good advice and prep for nfl."

I actually think he's a terrible fit at CU, where faculty and admin still aspire to being an academic institution. First rape, DUI, gun charge, officer beatdown, and both Deion and AD will be sent packing.

Except they are all high school age kids. Football has no comparable system. (7on7 is not even close to getting where club sports are).

That said, in the short term it could help a lot. Transfers will have experience at the college level (although the jump from FCS to Power 5 might be too big for some). It could be enough to get him a little more cred as a Power 5 HC, but I think long term that is not sustainable. I think it would be hard to build a culture of success with the sort of churn you would get from transfers, especially grads who might have 1 year left once the COVID cohort is through.

Right now Deion needs to sign players and win games next year. Transfers are a means to that end. Since I have a child at CU, I am hoping it can work. I really want her to experience the energy a successful football program brings to a campus.

The administration has already started making concessions in terms of making it easier to transfer in.

I also am not sure your take on his pitch will work. QBs aside (as they are a special case) how many guys starting for a team who are projected to go say in the first 2 rounds of the NFL draft transfer?

Not sure CU is set up to offer big NIL.

Deion has a short coaching career so I am not sure he can really talk about how he will give any better advice or prepare anyone better for the NFL than say any other coach. Certainly cannot over the guys at the top.

It will be an interesting couple of years. What I do know is that Deion has gotten CU in the news and gotten some recruits that they would not have gotten otherwise. Now can they be successful on the field and to me that would be winning 5 games this year (the PAC12 is pretty deep sort of like the Big12 this year).

It is a pro style scheme once you think about it. He is building a program to win games much like a pro franchise uses free agency. The transfer portal is essentially collegiate free agency.

Sanders can build a culture over time but he needs to win first. Having a bowl eligible program within two years will jumpstart the ability to better recruit from high schools later. Right now, any top kid looking at PAC-12 schools have 3-4 better options to consider before CU.

I think if the high school football player has a good looking mother then neon deon is extremely interested.

I hope you end up being right, as I'd like to see cu have a winning team.

Deion and advice. The young player (maybe incorrectly) believes they will get more real NFL prep from Deion than an old coach speak Saban guy.

He's getting money from somewhere.

These are the only reason he's now getting those 'recruits they would not have gotten otherwise'.

Will be fun to watch this all play out. Skobuffs!