Question: Summarize Let's start with high school recruiting in particular in football. How has the transfer portal affected high school players? Are there fewer Division I

Summarize Let's start with high school recruiting in particular in football. How has the transfer portal affected high school players? Are there fewer Division I scholarships available? Are there fewer opportunities to play right away? The COVID bubble, I guess you would call it, gave college students an extra year, so you started seeing sixth-year seniors and more than 85 people on scholarships for a little period there. That really kept a lot of teams top-heavy and it affected the numbers, and that (negatively) affected a number of kids coming out of high school. And the transfer portal pretty much hit at the same time, so instead of buying an unknown high school product, colleges were buying a "known" product. If you look at the number of Division I kids by year in Ohio in the last 10-12 years, you could see some (recent declines). This seems like the first year where it's kind of getting back to the normal numbers, where there's about 120 Division I kids in Ohio. But at the end of the day, it's one of these things where Ohio State loses their quarterback (Kyle McCord) to Syracuse and when I evaluate (incoming OSU quarterback transfer)

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