31% of FBS college football players have entered the portal in two days
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Huskies only have 14% of their roster in the portal so far. Guess Judd is doing alright holding on to his players compared to CFB as a whole. Must be a lot of teams with serious depth issues going into next year. How will they ever compete?
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Yes. Race agrees that the players love Fisch.
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The crazy portal thing is great for about 3 1/2 programs that have massive money and momentum/stability. Other than that it's bad or a wash at best for everyone. Also, about the vast majority of the guys in the long run would be better to just develop one place for 3-4 years and then playing or if they truly don't have a spot transferring but oh well.
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Agree with a caveat. Staying at a program for 3-4 years to develop only works if the staff is good at developing the players. If not, that in itself is a good reason to portal.
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This is true and part of why it's such a messy situation overall. I think the answer partially is though this is why it's important to choose a staff that is good at developing out of high school. Plus, the majority of it is still on the player and I think the answer also always was you don't have to sit out a year if you're willing to drop down a level. Just change that level from FBS to FCS to reflect conferences.
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Another caveat: if you're not playing or not playing a lot, and it looks like that may not get better, then it makes sense. The situation with Beck is Exhibit A. He was going to lose his job at Georgia and another program desperately needed a QB. I think in particular with QBs, it has been a good thing. I'd like to limit it to 1 transfer but other than that you shouldn't be chained to a decision you made when you were 18.
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The fact that the SEC hasn’t won a natty in two years, soon to be three and that the final 4 this year is completely different than the final 4 last year and the year before that, sans Texas, lends to the portal being a great equalizer. Let’s say it again, three years, and 11 different programs in the semi finals. Texas is the only repeat team. Alabama has been in once, TOSU once, Clemson zero, Georgia zero, LSU zero. Pretty cool IMHO. It got really boring for about a decade.
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both of these are good points and agree that QB is a specially a spot where some sort of transfer portal makes sense. It's not as simple as some of us good-hearted doogs want it to be.
It will be interesting to see which programs keep making the final four and playoffs as things move forward.
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There are only so many spots that the mega schools can offer to players before they run out of playing time to offer. Players are not going to take a bag to sit on the bench. They still do want to play and get to the NFL. Maybe they'll take the money to sit for a year, but will quickly realize that being 3rd string at Ohio State is not going to help them at all in the long run.
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That's it, right there. Yes, some programs will have an advantage in that market place but not even Buck or Alabama can take everybody.
Reminds me of an article from years ago when rosters were unlimited or effectively unlimited. And Don James was interviewed and said that he'd sometimes take a kid here and there who he didn't figure would ever be a Husky starter but he wanted to keep him away from the rest of the Pac 10, either for "just in case" reasons or to just deny the other program a 1.b. recruit. If that is true and not some urban legend I've manufactured in my head, which is possible, then in some ways this system is more fair at least in that one respect.
