The transfer portal mentality has ruined sports not just at the college level but the high school level as well. It teaches kids the wrong ideals in life promoting entitlement.
The Fort Hill basketball starting lineup yesterday against Smithsburg had one player that has been in the program for 3 years or more. The other four starters have NEVER been in a FH lineup prior to this season. Although the Allen transfer story is somewhat different obviously. I do see football players leaving Braddock to compete for FH more so than I have in the past. No question about it. FH fans have no room to point fingers anymore when it comes to creating wins through a transfer system.
For decades the Baltimore public schools have based their sports program success on a premise of securing the best players through the guise of "magnet school" cloaking. Their main focuses are its twelve magnet programs pertaining to specific careers that permits a student who wants to play basketball or football at a particular school to do so while claiming they wish to have a career in a certain field of study. When everyone knows the real reason was to solely play athletics. The reason Lake Clifton and Edmondson compete and win basketball titles every year isn't based on students who live in their district. The complete Dunbar athletic resume is attributed to these city principles.
The Bishop Walsh basketball program and the league they play in base their entire existence on a roster composed of 100% transfers. There are teenagers transferring mid-season for the third or fourth time just to play here. Not just transferring, but being recruited to transfer. The entire NIBC is built on this foundation. Most every Catholic based sports program has been building this same foundation for a century.
The world has changed. Even though I don't agree with the transfer mentality and what it teaches our youth, the snowball cannot stop rolling now...you either live by it or die by it from a won/loss stand point.
