Transfer Portal Central

Flywheel said:
Currently, athletes in 20 NCAA sports are allowed a one-time transfer. Football, men’s and women’s basketball, ice hockey, and baseball are the only sports that don’t allow that.
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Mods please move to the more appropriate board
 
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Maybe I missed it or maybe it hasn’t been settled yet, but does anyone know where Lucas Johnson decided to go?
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
This is a great idea.
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I’m not so sure it is a good idea. Sure, we can get players that don’t make it at the factory schools or something, but the factory schools could also poach from teams like ours in areas of need, and potentially at critical areas like QB.
 
coit said:
I’m not so sure it is a good idea. Sure, we can get players that don’t make it at the factory schools or something, but the factory schools could also poach from teams like ours in areas of need, and potentially at critical areas like QB.
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The transfer portal already does this. At least with the new rule there isn’t some arbitrary set of “exemptions” that only the factories seem to get.
 
GTWannaBee said:
The transfer portal already does this. At least with the new rule there isn’t some arbitrary set of “exemptions” that only the factories seem to get.
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Exactly. Right now, it is up to a committee to decide whether a kid has a legitimate hardship and there is an arbitrary boundary of 100 miles for kids who move closer to home. The latter rule totally screwed Antonneous Clayton. This will simplify things and is better for the student athlete. Collins has played the portal masterfully, so I am not worried about this hurting us, either.
 
originalwombat said:
I see only upside for Tech.
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It's potentially upside if you suppose that more will join us than leave us. Sure, we will grab a bunch of highly 'rated' recruits that weren't good enough or tough enough to hack it at schools that we would like to beat. Is that what we want? Tech can be a tough place academically at times, many will come to Ma Tech and tend to think the grass is greener on the other side. Saban has a point; the weak will turn and run from the adversity, and I agree that is not best for developing young men and women. Better to fight and develop character.

I also hate the potential that athletes on your campus may still be approached by bagmen to flip. You still have to recruit the guys who are already hitting the field for you!
 
It is an advantage for us because Atlanta area players who decide they want to play close to home or get lost in the factory log jam will migrate to Tech. We will reach the point where we can be very selective.
 
txsting said:
It's potentially upside if you suppose that more will join us than leave us. Sure, we will grab a bunch of highly 'rated' recruits that weren't good enough or tough enough to hack it at schools that we would like to beat. Is that what we want? Tech can be a tough place academically at times, many will come to Ma Tech and tend to think the grass is greener on the other side. Saban has a point; the weak will turn and run from the adversity, and I agree that is not best for developing young men and women. Better to fight and develop character.

I also hate the potential that athletes on your campus may still be approached by bagmen to flip. You still have to recruit the guys who are already hitting the field for you!
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I don't think the portal in itself will slow down or accelerate baggy transfers. I think it will cause more athletes to find the right school for them (and sometimes the right school for them is the highest bidder.)

How it affects GT is not a concern for me. We will have desirable players, true, but they either want to be part of our culture or they do not, and we are building a pretty desirable culture that will be attractive for high achievers from both a retention and acquisition angle.

We will lose people who do not want to buy into our culture, will not have easy playing opportunities here, or miscellaneously want to be somewhere else (girlfriend, etc.) I am fine with any of those and a sizable number of transfers are addition by subtraction.

If someone is in our program for a couple of years and someone else can buy them with a few thou to transfer somewhere else, they were not very committed and were probably not who we were looking for them to be in the first place.
 
A lot of very good players at the factories sit the bench and pray the two guys ahead of them get injured. Some will stick it out. Some will get fed up. Tech is a great landing spot for these guys, especially since many are from Georgia and the surrounding states. Lots of kids miss home, and when you combine that with no playing time, many will be taking advantage of this.
 
If it wasn't to our benefit, Saban wouldn't be concerned for the kids the same way the NCAA thought a playoff would hurt their final exams.
 
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