Transfer Portal affecting recruiting?

Dont want to derail your thread in its second post, but since this is at least semi-relevant, do you think the transfer portal will create a similar landscape to NCAA basketball with the 1 and dones at the blue bloods? Seems like it's already kinda headed there. Who knows, might be more akin to the pro landscape with free agency. Man, wouldnt that be something if they start having restricted free agency and the franchise tag in CFB? 😄

I suggest coaches love it. Especially at the highest levels. And the best part is the players is free to leave at any time
That kid is not going to play here, why would you want to keep him here. Put that scholarship somewhere else, on somebody who potentially can play here.
Its going to kill junior college/marginal kids at all levels.

If i understood you correctly on the academics, you might start seeing all the power 5 schools develop a standardized/shared curriculum for the most commonly chosen majors so that when a player transfers, all their credits transfer over...

The class of 2022 is being especially hard hit. Their most important recruiting time (junior season visits, spring, camps, ect.) was stolen by COVID. Then the current players all got another COVID year. Then you add in the portal. They are competing against the largest pool of players in history to get a scholarship and they are the least seen recruits in the last 30 years. That is a tough road.

The 2015 Alabama Mr. Football is in the recruiting portal. Add that up. This will be his 7th season in college football. Covid year and an injury year. He has had a stellar career at UAB. I don't begrudge that kid at all. Hope he gets his and plays pro football somewhere. But how is a high school qb supposed to compete against that for a scholarship?? That is why the NCAA needs to add extra schollys just for hs kids for a few years.


Unless you already had committable offers as a freshmen or are a 3, 4, or 5 star, you are getting the shaft.

I think all this will sort out in 3-4 years. But for this current class of 2022, it bites.

It definitely seems to make it closer to basketball recruiting where the number of scholarships available on a year by year basis changes and is a big part of the school's recruiting strategy each year. And also must involve some level of projection regarding who will probably transfer out, who might declare early, who is going to be a super-duper senior and leave school with a doctorate when they're done playing football, etc.

We only had one real recruitable kid in this class and he had no issues with his scholarship still being available on signing day. Another kid in town was committed to one school for months and signed somewhere else, rumor is that the original school told him they would honor the scholarship they offered him but that he should probably look elsewhere. No clue if the portal was a factor in that or not.

NFL draft rules currently forbid players from declaring for the draft until 3 years after their graduating class has graduated, so you won’t see the true “1 and dones” like you do with basketball players going to school for a semester and playing their freshman year before declaring for the draft and giving up on academics in the spring.

What you are seeing is players becoming far more mobile.

Sign somewhere out of HS and riding the pine as a freshman? Transfer.

Feel out of place and homesick your freshman year? Transfer.

Coach who recruited you leaves? Transfer.

Overlooked by P5 but you show you’re a stud at a G5 or FCS school? Transfer.

Better NIL deal elsewhere? Transfer.

Etc.

The Covid year has also created a logjam that will eventually work itself out, but it’ll take a few years to do so. My alma mater just had a (transfer) LB set an NCAA record by playing his *eighth* year of college football this year due to some redshirting issues and Covid.

Frankly, with the Covid rule, NIL, and the transfer rules now, I don’t know why they don’t just take away eligibility limits altogether and let people play for a decade or more as long as they stay enrolled and maintain grades. The NCAA has effectively turned college football into a semi-pro minor league, anyway.

Long-term, I feel like the transfer portal is going to replace HS recruiting as the top way the P5 schools build their programs. Why recruit 25 HS kids who’ll mostly need a year or two to mature physically (and may transfer by the time they do) when you can sign a bunch of sophomores and juniors who’ve been in a quality P5 S&C program for a while and know how things are done at that level?

Coaches are already saying that if you want a fast turnaround, which everyone needs in the FBS, you should focus on the transfer portal for bringing in talent that’s ready now. I also have to wonder if those blue chip kids who’ve chosen Jackson State would have ever done so without the transfer portal as a fallback option, as I could see more highly rated freshmen get pushed to the G5 and FCS schools where they can play early, then transfer after a year or two to a top FBS program. Essentially, I can see the G5 and FCS now becoming Alabama and USC’s farm system.

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Again, the solution is to add more scholarships. D1 coach told me yesterday that the NCAA is actually looking into that right now. He said that could come out before signing day, but that seems incredibly unlikely from the outside looking in.

While the transfer portal is the main issue, my problem is with the COVID year. They gave EVERY college athlete a COVID year. They took care of the current college players. But they completely disregarded the future college players (hs kids). The solution was to add to temporarily add more scholarships and then phase them out.

College players got a COVID year even though they played all the games. That is just illogical.

My son was a freshmen playing baseball when COVID hit in the middle of the season. So that year didn't count. Then he played last year as freshman. He could count that year as his COVID year. So he could still be a freshmen THIS YEAR!!

it also stinks for the D2 coach that found and developed him..How do you create and keep together a team

And it hurts 1AA and D2's on the other end of it, too. It used to be that a guy who transferred from a 1A had to transfer down to play immediately. That's how a lot of future NFL players ended up at smaller schools. They don't have to do that any more. 

With that in mind, another aspect is is that staffs are going to have to always be recruiting their own players now, even once they get them signed. Players are going to have zero incentive to stick around now if their coach is an @$$, or at least seems like one, or even if morale is low at the end of the season. That’s going to make “culture” an even bigger buzzword and will likely lead to more changes in what’s considered “too old school.”

FBS is not taking any fringe D1 guys anymore. So anyone that’s not a no brainer D1 is not going FBS. You have to win right now in college football and you do that with transfers. So all those kids are going Juco or FCS. FCS kids going juco or D2/naia and others bumped down to D3.

Plus there’s less scholarships available due to extra season provided due to covid year.

Yes if you take a transfer kid from another school that school now has an opening for a potential hs kid. More than likely they are going to another college that’s a level below them (doesn’t have to be) and pulling a kid away and giving them more money due to NIL deal potential. (Talking D1 schools)

Covid year will sort itself out in couple years. Transfer portal changed the game forever. Anyone you think is D1, is not D1. You have to KNOW they are D1.

Kids who need any kind of development are not a D1 player. They have to be ready to play right now.

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At some point the NIL will be construed as a contract and NIL and the portal and NIL WILL BE MINIMIZED.