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Message: [QUOTE="javadoc, post: 3993133, member: 338"] It could be, but it may all balance out. In any given year you have the total number of players that can be signed by all FBS schools. Available space under the 85 cap subject to the annual 25 limit aggregated across all teams. That big set is affected by grad transfers. If a player transfers from one FBS to another the size of the set doesn't change (generally), but the talent distribution does. How do we fare in that situation? I think we've done well the last few years. We've acquired impact players and not lost many (if any). The net effect on recruiting is that the transfer origin school gets to sign one more player, and the transfer recipient school gets to sign one less. If such transfers come from "more talented" teams then they have an additional spot to use on the best high school prospects. The recipient school thus may have less access to the best HS prospects but may get a more developed player who can contribute sooner. Tough to say who wins. Increasing the annual limit means that the "more talented" teams have greater access to the "best" HS prospects. Maybe they replace a blue chip "bust" with another blue chip that pans out immediately. A team who is not likely to get blue chips straight from HS may thus be content with acquiring a player who isn't a star at Alabama, but is perfectly fine for their team - and who may very well go on to an NFL career. So it's possible that the increased flux of prospects through the system results in higher-end teams having greater access to the best prospects, and actually finding/keeping them more effectively. I don't think that it would necessarily result in a greater talent disparity between the top echelon teams and everyone else, though. Raising the talent level at all schools will eventually hit a limiting effect where the talent difference isn't as pronounced as it is today. IMO. The issue today is that when a middling prospect doesn't work out at Syracuse, it's generally a non-contributor scenario; the player probably doesn't belong at the FBS level. If you could replace that with FBS players from the top echelon schools, then you get to a point where all games are more competitive. I'm not accounting for the chance that players start to flow "up" through the system in response to NIL concerns. If that happens then I think we see much more regulation come into play and I don't know what that will look like. [/QUOTE]

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