(04-16-2022 09:39 PM)steve4840 Wrote:  let me get your thoughts on this....

In my opinion there's been an incredible amount of player interest and social media tweets about their visits and how appreciative they are. I haven't seen this in the past. Do you think that the portal has changed high school player appreciation for college interest?

I'm not saying players should be in awe or bow down to a college showing interest, but I think with the portal situation now, it would make sense for a player to lock down an offer early to secure a spot and to tell the college to not look in the portal

Frankly I would hate to be 3 star or below HS prospect right now. The transfer portal is overloaded thanks to the Covid extra year and the delusion of greener pastures without an established history of any failures as to such. Their film accomplishments don't equate to a college transfer or a number two on the depth chart at a successful NCAA program. Finally, if I were Chris Creighton or Stan Heath, finding a HS diamond in the rough is no longer a victory as the kid could pack up and leave after one season. Committing early would seem wise for a kid, I would agree with you.

Still, I think their tweets with respect to school offers are less out of gratitude than in self-publication, we are after all in the "Twitter age".