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Transfer portal is ruining college football
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Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:46 PM

The kids that come to school with NFL Aspiration only, are not going to sit on the bench, when they can transfer to another school and be the starter. No one wants to actually outwork the competition and earn the spot. Until there is some sort of minor league football league, these kids will transfer all over the place. There is no commitment any more. Get a farm system in place, like Baseball, and let student athletes actually play in college. It won’t happen though, because there Is too much money at stake for the NCAA.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:49 PM

It is certainly changing the game, making it more “socialist” and spreading the depth around. Snowflakes of today do not wait their turn, they want it now. I get it, but too many are leaving too early or just trading one backup position for another.

They need to change the portal and stop it with 1 freebie and then grad school.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:54 PM

I am not a fan of the portal but calling everything you don’t like socialist is silly. It’s actually more of a free market where labor is free to move wherever they want and bet on their own talents and hard work to be successful.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 4, 2021, 9:41 AM

Precisely. Is every Clemson fan a right wing Republican? Sad, since there is no future in that, particularly since the current party has no soul and no policy goals. The portal is flawed, but the socialist language says much more about the person who posted that than it does about the players.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:54 PM [ in reply to Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football ]

I am not a fan of the portal but calling everything you don’t like socialist is silly. It’s actually more of a free market where labor is free to move wherever they want and bet on their own talents and hard work to be successful.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 5:05 PM

Good analysis. You cans see through Clemson1981 blatant politization of a non-political issue.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:54 PM

The game is still great. We haven't lost 1 player that was a game changer for us.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:55 PM

Depth is always a game changer

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:56 PM

It’s not ruining college football it’s changing college football. Not so much for the school but for the players, it’s better. I know most won’t agree but I look at it from their standpoint. Let’s take DJ for instance. If Caleb comes in and bears him for the job he should have no option but to ride the pine and end his career doing so? I think that’s selfish as hell. He should be able to transfer and possibly play in another system. He may at that point make it to the big leagues. Transfer portal is a good thing in my opinion. Dabo just needs to realize he should be recruiting the transfer portal just as much right now if not more than new recruits.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 4, 2021, 9:10 AM

That is fine, but the NCAA needs to allow more scholarships 95-100 annually to account for this and need rules for timing of said transfer.

Dabo’s current recruiting philosophy is going to get destroyed in the current environment. If he does not adjust, he will fail. Use the portal and oversign. By the way oversigning, would not be oversigning because you can now count on 6-10 transfers or attrition each year. Our classes need to be between 25-30 every year.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:56 PM

You misspelled “has ruined college sports”.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 4:59 PM

Whoever approved this portal thing can get all the credit for destroying the game. They should be recognized by name.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 6:16 PM

Yeah, I can’t believe they are letting Aikmen play at UCLA. Someone changed a free thing that doesn’t belong to me but I misappropriate ownership of!!!! The outrage!

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And Aikman sat a year before he could play per...


Dec 3, 2021, 7:37 PM

...the transfer rule in effect back then. So your point is not exactly contemporary or even applicable to today's wild wild west transfer portal.

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Re: And Aikman sat a year before he could play per...


Dec 3, 2021, 8:43 PM

The example not being contemporary was exactly the point. Been happening for a long time and the transfer rules changing aren’t why it’s happening more often now. Sitting a year isn’t that big of a deal if you are going to be on the bench anyway. Social media manifest FOMO and these kids are looking for something better that’s the cause of the increase as well as the players watching coaches hop from town to town like a fly-by-night carnival. Why shouldn’t they?

My whole point is it’s ridiculous the standard to which we hold amateur student athletes when our last two presidents have been geriatric foul mouthed creeps with the loyalty of a hungry dog and the moral fortitude to match.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 5:09 PM [ in reply to Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football ]

Calhoun2 said:

You misspelled “has ruined college sports”.


I did but I’m still learning my way around this place. I couldn’t figure out how to edit it.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 5:44 PM

Not only is it ruining college football. It has had a negative affect on Clemson’s program. It’s hard to keep a steady team with 2 deep at most positions. Now when players who think more of themselves and over evaluate their own talent don’t get what they think they deserve they take the easy way out, the TP. When they don’t get the playing time they deserve many head to they head for the transfer portal. TP could have possibly earned the starting QB job next year but now he is in the TP. The TP has given player’s a way out if they feel mistreated or don’t get the playing time they feel they deserve. I believe it has affected some player’s work ethic and desire to give their best to earn playing time.

With NIL many kids earn more money than coaches and even their parents. They IMO created even more reasons to work as hard to better yourself on and off the football field.

Clemson could be 2 deep again but they have to sale it during recruiting.

I think next season or the season after will give us a better idea about how NIL and the TP is really going to affect college athletics. Some of you think these kids should earn the money but what usually happens to kids not use to having a lot of money. Most go on a spending spree. Human nature shows money changes people. In many cases in a negative way.

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It is in fact doing just that. Bleeding Hearts can carry on


Dec 3, 2021, 6:21 PM

all they want to about how great it is. The reality is this.

It is a Get Out of Jail Free card for the Entitlement Generation. All their lives, these kids have been told how great they are at football, the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then, when they get to college, and don't immediately garner a starting job, a greater and greater number of them are refusing to believe it is just because the OTHER entitled kid was actually better than them. No, it had to be because the coach had it in for them, or just is blind to their brilliance, or in some cases, though we may never hear about it, it may actually be entitled parents doing the steering towards the portal.

The harsh reality that doesn't get talked about is: The transfer portal has not created ANY, even ONE, additional starting jobs above and beyond those that already existed in college football. So, the truth that gets ignored is that the great unsung portion of players in the portal will just move from one backup position at one school, to a backup position at an equal or higher grade school. Only by moving down, essentially taking their talent to the minor leagues, to compete against kids with much lesser talent, can a starting job be even a greater than average possibility.

As in any rule, there are exceptions. Outside of the advent of the portal itself, stories like Joe Burrow and Justin Fields hurt college football overall more than they ever helped it. Because naive kids will never believe that is the rare exception, rather than the rule. The sportswriters and talking heads never mention that lion's share of transfers that flounder in continued obscurity.

And now, Lincoln Riley, and to a much lesser extent I'm sure, Brian Kelly, have provided the next wrinkle. Successful coach "transfers" to another school, and guts his previous school by taking present and future talent with him.

How ironic it is that the NCAA, who used to rule college football with an iron fist, found, or finds, itself powerless to do anything about something that IS much more of a real threat to the integrity of college football than giving a kid some free swag or a few bucks EVER was.

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Re: It is in fact doing just that. Bleeding Hearts can carry on


Dec 3, 2021, 7:33 PM

I am considerably dumber for having read that.

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How many current OU players have confirmed they are


Dec 4, 2021, 9:14 AM [ in reply to It is in fact doing just that. Bleeding Hearts can carry on ]

transferring to USC?

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 3, 2021, 6:29 PM

It doesn't matter at the end of the day.

The only people that are really hurts are freshmen that don't carry the 5-star "grade", since they likely won't be given the playtime by default until they can't or are unable to compete effectively.


For just about every other kid it's a net positive. For every special snowflake there is also a kid busting his ### but due to coach favoritism, ignorance, or some other circumstance gets ignored.


It will all normalize itself over time. Coaches/Programs that ignore it or don't take advantage will severely fall behind.




Only major issue is how to police the trading/buying of players that will inevitably occur.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 4, 2021, 9:16 AM

And you know these guys who are jumping from school to school aren't getting anything out of the experience academically either and will end their college careers without a degree or having learned much of anything at all. So ultimately, most of them will never get paid to play football and will never graduate and go home to stock groceries for a living. But hey, at least they now have the ability to unknowingly ruin their lives while chasing a dream that nobody will tell them doesn't exist. Besides, studying and working hard to beat out the guy in front of you are very dated concepts that are probably rooted in white supremacy, or something.

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Re: Transfer portal is ruining college football


Dec 4, 2021, 9:36 AM

I would like to see some stats about how often transferring helps the kid or the new football team. We hear a couple names when talking about transfer portal success like a few big name QB. But my gut says most don't really improve their lot through the portal.

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