re: Kalen DeBoer to be named HC at Alabama

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Recruiting high schoolers isn’t quite as important now with CFB free agency

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HS recruiting is arguably more important now than before. This year, of teams with the better HS recruiting talent, 74% of them won across FBS straight up. That's a record high.

The argument is made that heavy portal recruiting of mercenaries will eventually toxify your culture and ruin your ability to develop players andaimtain a coherent team environment.

There is a lot to that theory, too. In the NFL, the best teams have tye least amount of free agent pickups on their roster. The best teams build through the draft and then only supplement through FA in a couple areas of need. They don't build their entire team that way.

DeBoer is one hell of a football coach. But if Bama sniffs a recruiting class outside the top 5, they will want him fired, just like they did with Mullen at Florida.