How Do We Fix the Dirty Culture of College Recruiting?

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Why?

It would be the most arbitrary, roundabout way to solve a problem I can think of. College recruiting has gotten out of hand, so the solution is to limit the number of kids a random internet site attaches a certain value to that can go to a school? That is truly bizarre, IMO.

Confucius explained the main issue with it above. You're basically saying that every school should field as close to the exact same product as possible, and we're going to legislate it that way and force everyone's hand, including the kids. And how would it even solve dirty recruiting? The truly special kids would get even more in this scenario because you get so few of them.

Imagine if you had 2 stud 5-stars in the state of MS who were both State legacies who had always dreamed of playing for State. You would suddenly despise that rule. Or imagine if you had a kid on the very edge between a 4- and 5-star. We already had one 5-star committed, and this kid was a 4-star committed to State as well, then just before signing day the kid's rating gets bumped up slightly by one site, so his composite rating bumps up to a 5-star. Now we can't sign that kid, our plans are ruined, and his plans are ruined.

You would give an unbelievable amount of power to the recruiting sites, who we already loathe. Imagine a world in which Yancy Porter can actually have influence on who can come to State and who can't, or on whose rating suddenly drops low enough to be able to go to OM.

There are a lot of really, really big problems with that plan.