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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

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buckeyemania11 said:
Is there even a point at recruiting developmental players anymore? If you are a big time P5 school? Just throw it all at the higher rated more ready recruits, and if you whiff go raid a smaller school for a experienced developed player to fill the slot instead. Seems like it'll be a rarity going forward to see a kid sit for 2/3 years before he hits the field for meaningful playing time.
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Developmental players can develop at MAC, Sun Belt or HBCUs. When you're ready you go up to P5. It'll just eventually become a farm like me and @Jaxbuck said in another thread(or it might've been this one, I can't keep track which threads are saying what regarding the Portal at this point)
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
Probably will be for everyone... Kids can transfer once with no penalty so watch out. It's smart too...

If I'm a star player I'm hitting the portal every year to get more money or seeing who can be the highest bidder.

Especially if you're an impact true freshman and a top 10 NFL pick projection? Probably could get 5 mil a year at some of these stupid schools if the bidding war went right.
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and for the lower tier of players who are looking for PT, the portal becomes a self fulfilling thing. They are struggling to see the field and now they not only have recruits coming for their roster spot, they have transfers in.

A lot of kids are going to feel like they have no choice but to look around
 
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Jaxbuck said:
and for the lower tier of players who are looking for PT, the portal becomes a self fulfilling thing. They are struggling to see the field and now they not only have recruits coming for their roster spot, they have transfers in.

A lot of kids are going to feel like they have no choice but to look around
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IMO that helps everyone though. There's no point for recruiting reaches at Ohio State to try to stick for 5 years.

So OSU gets the extra spot for recruiting/portal and the kid gets to go somewhere and play immediately.
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
IMO that helps everyone though. There's no point for recruiting reaches at Ohio State to try to stick for 5 years.

So OSU gets the extra spot for recruiting/portal and the kid gets to go somewhere and play immediately.
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Yeah, I'm not one of those saying there is anything inherently "bad" about any of this. It's just different.

When things are new there are inevitably some bumps in the road. That's all this is.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Gotta be OSU or ND (with his pops).

I edited to add the real one I’m waiting on is Tiawan Mullen at CB. He’s a senior but still has his Covid year and seems all but likely he’s leaving IU. He’s a stud and if he brings that play to OSU’s platform he could make a nice payday on draft night.

Plus we need freaking bodies there.
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Mullen from IU is going to the draft. Drats. Awesome kid.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Yeah, I'm not one of those saying there is anything inherently "bad" about any of this. It's just different.

When things are new there are inevitably some bumps in the road. That's all this is.
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Agree, but these aren't "minor tweaks" in the system we are talking about. These are sport-altering changes and there have been so many variables/changes in the sport in such a short period of time (NIL, portal, conference realignment/expansion, immediate eligibility rules, ect....) that it's impossible to get a grasp of or project where it's going to lead, or even evaluate what is going right and what is failing with the amount of changes the sport is going through. With hardly any regulations, and over 1,000 kids entering the portal already just yesterday, CFB has become a bit of a free-for-all..... and like some have already alluded to, the B1G is always slowest to react and gets left behind.
 
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Every three out of four years, OSU, Bama, Clemson, UGA, USC etc would be in the CFP title hunt as it currently stands. Even it changes that will be every year. The michigans, PSUs, Oregons, Texas and random others would have their 1 in 4 year ascensions because they'd be full of seniors who grew together and developed great chemistry for a run. Now with changes the cream is going to rise further to the top in the 12 team format. The transfers will become as important or more so to the very top teams for filling gaps in recruiting where recruiting will remain the lifeblood of most schools as it has been developing those players to transfer later on. A minor league system indeed but to the detriment of our histories likely. More championships on the horizon for sure but for old fogeys like me who love the history the cost may be too much. Such is progress
 
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mendensa said:
Agree, but these aren't "minor tweaks" in the system we are talking about. These are sport-altering changes and there have been so many variables/changes in the sport in such a short period of time (NIL, portal, conference realignment/expansion, immediate eligibility rules, ect....) that it's impossible to get a grasp of or project where it's going to lead, or even evaluate what is going right and what is failing with the amount of changes the sport is going through. With hardly any regulations, and over 1,000 kids entering the portal already just yesterday, CFB has become a bit of a free-for-all..... and like some have already alluded to, the B1G is always slowest to react and gets left behind.
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I like free for all situations personally so I look at it as a positive. You are just competing on your brains and your balls.

There is always a solution. The only irreparable harm is to the old model which is gone and never coming back.
 
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pnuts34 said:
Kind of like they're adults working a job...
In everyday life, adults have the opportunity to leave and switch companies, or start their own company's. And companies do what they can to keep their employees, especially their best ones. If an employee feels unwanted or sees their career going nowhere, then they have the option to leave. Not sure why it's so crazy that we treat 18-22yos like adults.
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This. 100%.
 
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pnuts34 said:
In everyday life, adults have the opportunity to leave and switch companies, or start their own company's.... If an employee feels unwanted or sees their career going nowhere, then they have the option to leave. Not sure why it's so crazy that we treat 18-22yos like adults.
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In the NFL, adults DO NOT have the opportunity to leave and switch companies at will, at least not for their first four (or five) years on the job. If college football players want to be treated like adults, then let them sign four-year contracts with the colleges that they choose (and NFL players don't get to choose their employers, at least not initially). Might as well get used to life in the real world at age 18....
 
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