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True, but I don't know how different this is than the pre-NIL recruiting world in which the Blue Bloods routinely pulled in the 5- and 4-star recruits, while the rest of us developed the 3-stars, and celebrated the occasional higher-level recruiting win (often an in-state/homegrown talent). There's a reason that they are the Blue Bloods, and the rest of us aren't.

BUT...in the olden times we could develop and keep the diamonds in the rough. So a Chris Borland or Jonathan Taylor stays at Wisconsin. Now? Highest bidder, baby.

I think it IS different for two main reasons.  One is the reason that you stated, can a Wisconsin keep those 3* players that they develop into great players or are those guys going to end up on a blue blood roster as JRs/Srs?  

The other is that the Portal allows schools like Ohio State and Michigan to erase/correct their mistakes/misses.  In the old days Ohio State might miss on a couple LBer recruits or maybe have a 5* LBer turn out to be a bust or maybe have a recruit who gets injured and can't play and if you get a few of those things stacked on top of each other at one position pretty soon Ohio State is playing with a significant weakness at LBer.  At the same time maybe Michigan misses on a couple DB recruits or maybe has a 5* DB turn out to be a bust or maybe has a recruit who gets injured and can't play and if you get a few of those things stacked on tope of each other at one position pretty soon Michigan is playing with a significant weakness at DB.  In those cases Ohio State with their weakness at LBer is vulnerable to a powerful running team like some from Wisconsin and Michigan with their weakness at DB is vulnerable to a basketball on grass throwing team like some from Purdue.  

In today's game if Ohio State has a weak LBer room and Michigan has a weak DB room well the Buckeyes and Wolverines will just go spend some cash in the portal and that will be fixed.  

I sure wish Warren Buffett ($145.1B) would like CFB

He'd be voted king of Nebraska (yes, an oxymoron, I know) if he donated a ton of money AND required the option to be brought back.

Probably start with Saban's assistants and go from there.

I'd say Meyer, but.. Fickell.

So Whittingham is going to be a dumpster fire of RichRod/Hoke proportions? 

On an aside, isn't it crazy that a council of faculty representatives had control over Ohio State's postseason? 

I don't think it will be a dumpster fire, but I also don't think it's a home run.

IMHO he's what they need now,steady,solid nose to the grindstone type nothing flashy. And I hope I'm entirely wrong here

he prolly does but is not goated into fanboi nonsense. No one handed him 1 million smackers when he turned 18

true

he also thinks there are a few other things more important that football

if a west coast program like USC or Oregon could decide to not spend the money because of lack of interest