Does getting caught really even matter anymore? Seems to me like making it up as you go along and daring somebody to do something about it is the new normal.
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Yeah, the lower divisions are going to have some insane talent from guys who are pissed off that they got some terrible advice. Imagine entering the Portal from say Florida or UNC, and now you're ending up at UT-Martin or Canisius
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
College football transfer portal trends: Prices rising
The transfer portal closed Friday for most players. Here are five things to know after two wild weeks.
College football transfer portal trends: Prices rising
Too many stuck in the portal
Entering the final day of the offseason transfer window, several agents told ESPN their work was finished now that each of their clients had found schools. The sense from GMs and directors of player personnel surveyed was that they still have a couple of remaining needs to address over the next week but that spots are filling up fast.Indiana and Miami players have a Jan. 24 deadline to enter the transfer portal after the national title game. But beyond those players, portal activity should slow considerably in the days ahead as schools hit their enrollment deadlines.
What does that mean for all of the players who haven't found a school?
There were still more than 1,200 unsigned FBS scholarship players in the NCAA's transfer portal database as of Thursday night, sources told ESPN. It's likely that group includes quite a few players who have verbally committed but haven't officially signed yet.
Still, that's a concerning number to see at this point in the process. It would mean more than one-third of the FBS scholarship players in the portal haven't found a new home yet.
In the 2024-25 portal cycle, more than 97% of the scholarship players at Power 4 programs who transferred ended up matriculating to a new school. There's no shortage of options at the FCS, Division II, D-III and junior college levels for players who are determined to keep playing.
But this cycle presented new challenges. Schools had to rapidly sort through the more than 6,500 Division I players who've hit the portal since Jan. 2 and sign who they wanted as fast as possible. If you were entering the portal with limited playing experience or were coming off an injury and all you had was practice film, good luck.
Another problem: Because pre-portal tampering was so rampant during the season and especially in December, players who didn't have agents or representatives lining up offers and visits ahead of January were at a disadvantage. If you played by the rules and waited until Jan. 2 to begin your recruiting process, you were starting from behind.
Conversely, there's no doubt there are also players stuck in the portal who were pushed out by their previous school or listened to bad advice from reps who could not deliver the dollars or destinations they expected.
So where will these unsigned players go now? The challenge is deciding whether to sign with a Group of 5/FCS/D-II program now or sit out the semester and hope better options emerge in April. The elimination of the spring transfer window might help their chances because these programs will still have injuries and depth concerns they need to address after spring practice.
After two intense weeks that seemed much more like speed dating than recruiting to GMs and agents, there are still good college football players out there waiting to be picked up. Some programs are going to find serious steals in the weeks ahead.
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Added another long snapper.
Five-star long snapper, ranked 16th long snapper in class of 2024.
Five-star long snapper, ranked 16th long snapper in class of 2024.
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sparcboxbuck
What happened to my ¤cash?
The volume of kids who hit the portal this year almost had to result in this. Who knows if what we saw this year will become the new norm, but I suspect that it likely will settle down quite a bit after this round of musical chairs doesn’t end well for a lot of kids.
It’s hard to put any of this on the kids themselves. Ultimately they do have a choice so, yeah… they get some of the blame here. That said, I suspect that a LOT of very bad advice that was hardly given in service of these kids has lead them to where they are.
Pro tip. If you go into the portal, you best have a new home already secured. If you don’t, you darn well better be the bell of the ball, otherwise… FAFO.
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I think the only way to stop the mass flow of Portal entries like this next year, is to bring back the 2nd Portal window. This Portal was so insane, because there was only 1 time in the year to transfer. If kids can now wait until Spring and see where they actually fall on the depth chart closer to the season.
Coaches and schools will be more inclined to pay up to a kid who has shown that he’s stepped up in the off season. I’m sure Scott, Graham, Porter and some of the young DL would have seen a bump in their NIL if they could prove they could compete in the 2 deep. But if you’re just basing what they did this past year on paying them more next year. Then I have no problem with all of them leaving
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Captain Buckeye
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I’m sorry but I don’t feel bad for these kids who think they’re going to make bank only to find out no one wants them.
This will be a hard life lesson to learn
This will be a hard life lesson to learn
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TampaBuckeyes
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The NIL is tricky. Duke will likely sue for everything Miami is paying him.
Duke QB Darian Mensah changes mind, enters transfer portal
Duke starting quarterback Darian Mensah is entering the transfer portal. Mensah's decision comes less than a month after he chose to return to school instead of entering the NFL draft.www.espn.com
Duke QB Darian Mensah changes mind, enters transfer portal
Duke starting quarterback Darian Mensah is entering the NCAA transfer portal.
Mensah submitted his request for transfer paperwork Friday, ahead of the midnight deadline for FBS and FCS players to enter the portal.
"This wasn't an easy decision, but after talking with my family, I believe it's in my best interest to enter the transfer portal," Mensah said in a post on X.
Miami looms as the expected favorite in Mensah's recruitment when he officially becomes available. The Hurricanes have signed transfer quarterbacks in consecutive years -- Cam Ward and Carson Beck -- and have not landed one during the two-week transfer window that opened Jan. 2.
Mensah had decided Dec. 19 to return to Duke for his redshirt junior season after exploring the possibility of entering the NFL draft. He was No. 5 in Mel Kiper Jr.'s quarterback rankings for the 2026 draft before his decision.
The quarterback was entering the second year of a two-year deal with Duke that would pay him up to $4 million in 2026. If Mensah leaves Duke, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel that his contract grants the university his exclusive name, image and likeness rights, which could prevent Mensah from earning revenue-sharing money at his next school unless the Blue Devils terminate their deal. There is not a specific buyout amount in Mensah's contract with Duke, sources told Thamel.
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound redshirt sophomore from San Luis Obispo, California, transferred from Tulane to Duke after the 2024 season and led the Blue Devils to their first outright ACC championship since 1962 with a 27-20 overtime upset of No. 17 Virginia in the conference title game.
Mensah earned second-team All-ACC honors after producing a conference-leading 3,973 passing yards on 66.8% passing with 35 total touchdowns and six interceptions. He has started 27 career games at Tulane and Duke and has two more years of eligibility.
If Mensah departs the program on the final day of the NCAA transfer window, it will put coach Manny Diaz and the Blue Devils in a difficult position with few proven options available in the portal.
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Just sayin': He had a guaranteed $4M NIL deal at Duke. Some other school must have just offered him a lot more to hop in the transfer portal at the last moment......
Smart move though. Even if he stays with Duke he can get some extra cash.
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I guess because theyre paying and willing to give him a chance to play. I didnt even realize he was still in college playing football
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Something is lost and it's not coming back. TV and greed, yes, but also the desire of folks like me to watch my school beat the snot out of someone else's school. Not for the greater good of academics and research, but for sports. Woody was right. He refused to be paid more than what a professor with his years of service be paid. Now we have a team that probably makes more in NIL than the school's faculty makes in income. I don't begrudge the athletes. If they can keep enough educated fools watching them perform, they deserve the money. But the colleges should get out of the business.
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