In the era of the transfer portal, it’s easy to convince yourself that high school recruiting has taken a backseat. After all, you can now hypothetically stock your program with players who are years removed from high school, further along in their development, and more ready to play.

It’s such an alluring concept that Deion Sanders appears to be trying to build his entire program on this idea. He has only six high school players committed in the 2024 class – one of which is probably flippin…