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Transfer Portal and its impact

blion72

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Jan 1, 2010
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every Sunday we do a brunch after church with the neighbors, one of whom is our local HS FB coach. we are a little farm school, so nothing big, but this guy probably could have gone to higher level in coaching. he was a GA at a BIG school in the 1980's, asst in small D3 schools before coming back home to coach. he is also a farmer and happy here. today he got us talking about the portal and the significant changes. here are some interesting points.

The portal itself is pretty trivial technology - nothing but a website, database and some control processes. This certainly is not an innovation, and could be put together by most competent IT departments. We discussed why the portal gets the attention, and there are really two more important changes the ncaa made.

First, the NCAA permitted once the player was visible in the portal, teams could start to contact them. Prior to that, the player had to take the initiative. The portal facilitates, but the new freedom coaches had to contact is key.

Second, the players are getting the ability to have instant eligibility instead of sitting out a year. Not sure if this is a one time right or could go on forever. If this rule changed back, it would certainly slow down the transfers. We discussed a couple of the court cases that opened this up, and not sure what the legal argument was that allowed Tom Mars to beat the NCAA in court re the UMich QB, but that may have led to this transfer right. Our neighbors all think this rule should be reversed, but that is more of a farm culture out here - commitments matter. We all have original wives.

in the past if you changed these two rules, we would have flood of transfer portal or no portal.
 
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