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u/brokentr0jan USC Trojans • Victory Bell Apr 24 '26

Sounds mean but the most annoying thing is all the transfer portal / recruiting posts for every single player. A standalone post for some big time dude committing? That feels fine, but I don’t need to know the 50th guy at Iowa State (who never played) entered the transfer portal.

Basically what I am getting at is a restriction on the X committed to or X transfer posts to the top 100 players

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u/cooterdick Tennessee • North Carolina Apr 24 '26

That was the main point I made when a similar survey popped up last year. The sub is basically unusable during peak recruiting time when there’s post after post of commitments and anything else gets lost in the shuffle.

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u/bakonydraco Stanford • Chicago State Apr 24 '26

The rule a few years ago capping each user at 3 posts per day was partly to address this.

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u/HelioOne Texas Longhorns • Washington Huskies Apr 27 '26

Another used to be a rule that required the player to be at least a 3*, but it seems like maybe that went away?

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u/bakonydraco Stanford • Chicago State Apr 27 '26

The reality is that there are very few posts about players that aren't 3*s, and most of them are novel enough that people want to talk about them. The main impact of getting rid of the hard 3 star rule is that when we had it, people felt compelled to post every bit of news about anyone with 3 stars and up. By removing the limitation, it seems like people have actually gotten more selective.

The bigger impact on this was probably that we added the limit of 3 posts per user per day at the same time.

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u/HelioOne Texas Longhorns • Washington Huskies Apr 28 '26

Has there ever been any consideration of limiting to perhaps the top 100 or so composite players? Someone else said this but I'm interested when some of the top guys commit but I just generally don't care about the rest.

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u/bakonydraco Stanford • Chicago State Apr 28 '26

The fundamental issue with that is that the top 100 players is that there's only about 30 teams with picks in that range. Notably that's less than half the P4, and nothing outside of it. If talking about recruiting is a thing that people want to do on /r/CFB, we can't really do it in a way that boxes out most of the sport.

There's a couple options here, but it's good context to keep in mind that this is a big community of 4.5 million people with a lot of different needs and interests, and that's always going to be a fun challenge to balance.

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u/HelioOne Texas Longhorns • Washington Huskies May 06 '26

There are even more unranked

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u/cooterdick Tennessee • North Carolina Apr 26 '26

Same here in terms of days I actively avoid the sub. With all the talk about how highlights here can’t operate like they do over on r /nfl due to the sheer volume of college teams and games compared to the NFL, it seems a similar logic should apply to recruiting. If we look at the NFL draft posts, sure there’s one for every pick, but that’s only 257 picks. Like you mentioned with recruiting sizes, that would be roughly 10-15 schools, or 7-11% of FBS teams.