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Message: [QUOTE="dollarbill44, post: 4512447, member: 686"] I'm not sure how you can reasonably support your last paragraph. While the big programs have always paid more for their players, the legalization of booster payments to players has definitely brought more "benefactors" to the table because there is no longer a stigma attached to the payments and the schools won't get punished. Add in the transfer portal and now it's basically free agency along with over the counter payments. This creates a marketplace for the best teams to poach the best college players via the portal while they still get the best high school players. There may be some reciprocal transfers to the well, but it's still a flow of higher talent to the bigs and lesser talent the other way. [/QUOTE]