Looking for opinions: The game has changed and chasing high school recruits that want big $$ for unproven skills has less value than paying players that are guaranteed. How many HS recruits actually stay on a team in today’s climate? Run the LSU numbers over the last few years. The new approach: Offer top rated HS players truly committed to a brand. Don’t pursue the guys that flip flop and put on a show with 5 hats. Save the majority of your NIL money for transfers. 75% of HS recruits won’t stick around long enough to contribute anyway. Getting worked up over most HS commits is a thing of the past. It’s ever changing and requires adaptability. Get juniors and build a team with real skills. There is no need to develop freshmen any longer. Let someone else be the AA league form you, except in certain situations.

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Posted by thiseye

Member since Jan 2024

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Posted on 1/4/26 at 12:00 am to Commanda

I was thinking today that the top schools will eventually stop recruiting high school or only the 5 stars and let other schools be the development league. Meanwhile, they'll just build their rosters entirely through the portal every year and pay like 70 kids really well instead of having a 105 man roster.

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Posted by sportsaddit68

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Posted on 1/4/26 at 12:08 am to Commanda

I was halfway joking about this to someone one day...

Let LSU pay/schedule a *insert in-state school of choice* every year and in return, that school always runs the same system as LSU. Recruit together and the ones who need development can go to that school, get playing time under the same offense or defense philosophy, get to visit death valley to showcase skills, and when they are ready go ahead and transfer up to the big boys.

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Posted by sdmlsu1

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Posted on 1/4/26 at 12:12 am to thiseye

I’m curious to see how this portal hopping will affect the NFL in the future. You’ll always have the elite athletes but the mid tier guys that need a few years of development but jump around due to money.

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Posted by Yeti_Chaser

Member since Nov 2017

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Posted on 1/4/26 at 9:31 am to thiseye

You need HS guys for depth. It's hard to find quality depth pieces in the portal bc most portal guys are looking for playing time. Look at our QB and RB situation. We have 0 QBs and 1 RB but probably need at least 3 and 4. Maybe we get Sorsby and Lacy in the portal.
Maybe you can convince another young QB transfer to come in and wait a year, but it'll be really hard to find 2 to do that. Especially when you tell them you're not only bringing them in to be a backup but you're also bringing in someone else to compete with them to be the heir.
Same thing with finding 2 transfer RBs to come and compete with Lacy and Berry for carries. It's just much easier to build that depth through HS recruiting

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