While the transfer portal continues to gain more and more importance in how teams are approaching roster construction, high school recruiting remains the lifeblood of ensuring long-term and consistent success for programs.
Developing your own prospects is a crucial piece of roster management and recruiting pitches, and keeping them from portaling has become more important than ever. If you try to build a roster that has more transfers than prep players, it undercuts your ability to land blue-chip prospects. Opposing coaches would have an easy time negatively recruiting that scenario: “Why sign with them when they’ll just keep bringing in transfers from the portal to take your spot?