In Reply to: Offering used to matter before NIL posted by Bruins#1 on May 24, 2024 at 09:16:08
I doubt offering has ever mattered for the best talent. They know they're welcome wherever they like. Pay for talent has been in recruiting for decades and Chip had little to spend. So he used it judiciously. Later, he turned, wisely, to the portal.
We all need to recognize that it comes down to the bag now, not the school, not the city, not the pom poms. The bag.
I suspect this change is why Saban got out. He knew his long standing recruiting "advantage" was gone. Now everyone had a lot more money and the playing field was now level. The talent gap would close and his record would become more uneven.