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Deion Sanders explains how transfer portal has negatively impacted high school recruiting
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While the transfer portal has benefitted a lot of football programs, some coaches, like Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders, are still not a fan of it and says it has had a negative effect on recruiting.
Here is what Sanders said via Football Scoop.
“Recruiting is different now,” Sanders said this week on the SWAC coaches’ video conference call. “It’s not like it used to be. When you talk about recruiting, you’ve got to break this thing down in three.
“You’re talking about grad transfers, you’re talking just guys in the portal and you’re talking about high school guys. What’s your needs? What’s your darn needs? What do you need right now? Do you have the time, and is your college going to give you the time to develop these young men out of high school? Because that’s predominantly, let’s just say at the best, that’s a two-year process.”
With that being said, however, Sanders and his program have benefitted from the transfer portal with several of his players coming from high-profiled Power 5 schools.
Veteran journalist Stacey Mickles graduated from the University of Alabama and covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.
