Transfer Portal Tracker

[GoGATech]

Thanks both of you for trying to explain this new landscape to me. Guess both make sense...But it's been closed for 10 days but I guess accounting for the weekends and New Years holiday it just took quite a bit more than the 5 announced by media. Hope this is now over at least till after Spring football then the chaos starts all over.

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure weekends and holiday days count. From what I was told, our bowl game was on Dec. 28th, so our guys had until end of day January 2nd (5 days) to fill out their paperwork with the school. Then the school has 48 hours (end of day Jan. 4th) to submit that paperwork to the NCAA. Cooley apparently had his paperwork in, and the school had it submitted by the 4th, but none of that is public information unless the athlete, their agent, or someone at the school shares it. So nobody knew until he posted something about it yesterday.

 

[gtleviathan]

All it will take is for one SA to sue the NCAA and that portal deadline will vanish.

I'm not sure why? Nothing is stopping any student from quitting whatever extracurriculars they are involved with and applying to another school.

 

[Supersize that order mutt]

LONG but pretty interesting artilce about the end of the latest iteration of the NIL era (NOT the end of the NIL era, as indicated in the title.

With NIL era ending, college sports is on verge of seismic change. How will schools adapt with industry in upheaval?

College football’s more professionalized era arrives in July, and historic powerhouses like Ohio State and Texas could lose both their inherent recruiting advantage and their financial edge.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[spellingbee]

The transfer portal is wild. I'm an adjunct at a university with D1 athletics and D1 FCS football. Classes started yesterday, and I had two student-athletes show up to my class last night who said they were wait listed and hoping to get into my class. The FB player had been in town less than a week, and the lacrosse player moved from D.C. to town Sunday and started registering for classes Monday morning. I'm doing what I can to get them on my roster. The athletic academic advisor reached out concerning the FB player, but I haven't seen any advocating for the lacrosse player, so I'll pursue that on my own. I wonder how those who are still on playoff teams will navigate transferring if they choose to after their last games. I assume they will j miss spring practice and enroll for fall.
Just another example of the "wild west" mentality that has been created.

 

[OldSchoolJacket]

You are correct it is a wild west. Forget about enrolling for a moment. Is there anyone even at the NCAA office? Enforcement is non-existent. I really believe if you missed the deadlines and just had ringers show up in the summer, who would even notice? Is there even one program on probation right now?

 

[BainbridgeJacket]

The transfer portal is wild. I'm an adjunct at a university with D1 athletics and D1 FCS football. Classes started yesterday, and I had two student-athletes show up to my class last night who said they were wait listed and hoping to get into my class. The FB player had been in town less than a week, and the lacrosse player moved from D.C. to town Sunday and started registering for classes Monday morning. I'm doing what I can to get them on my roster. The athletic academic advisor reached out concerning the FB player, but I haven't seen any advocating for the lacrosse player, so I'll pursue that on my own. I wonder how those who are still on playoff teams will navigate transferring if they choose to after their last games. I assume they will j miss spring practice and enroll for fall.
Just another example of the "wild west" mentality that has been created.

One of the families I know has a kid on a college golf team. Multiple team members entered the portal while it was just open, but that's in the middle of the golf season. For some reason, the kids were under the impression they'd be able to play the rest of the season despite entering the portal without talking to the coach first. Not the case. It's not a P4 school, so I doubt those kids are going to be picked up by another school. No clue wtf they were thinking.

 

[77GTFan]

The transfer portal is wild. I'm an adjunct at a university with D1 athletics and D1 FCS football. Classes started yesterday, and I had two student-athletes show up to my class last night who said they were wait listed and hoping to get into my class. The FB player had been in town less than a week, and the lacrosse player moved from D.C. to town Sunday and started registering for classes Monday morning. I'm doing what I can to get them on my roster. The athletic academic advisor reached out concerning the FB player, but I haven't seen any advocating for the lacrosse player, so I'll pursue that on my own. I wonder how those who are still on playoff teams will navigate transferring if they choose to after their last games. I assume they will j miss spring practice and enroll for fall.
Just another example of the "wild west" mentality that has been created.

Here is an attempt to correct this obvious mess of the transfer portal open during the playoffs and bowls and trying to get athletes registered for Spring semester in early January.

1. The scholarship year for an athlete begins in May with first session summer school and ends with the completion of the academic year as spring semester concludes.
2. Spring football moves to May and can start when summer school first session begins.
3. The transfer portal opens after the national championship is played and remains open until around April 1 or April 15. High school athletes can be signed from the February signing period until the portal closes. By the closing date a school knows who will be on their roster for the later spring practice.
4. If a player knows they are leaving they don’t have to take advantage of the semester scholarship or offseason workouts during spring semester, but that is their choice. But, they cannot take part in workouts at a new school until May.
5. Given that sometimes a transfer becomes desirable after spring practice and a player realizes they are not where they want to be on the depth chart, the portal can reopen for football for a month in the summer, say June 15-July 15. I would also make this an early signing period for high school seniors and do away with December early signing. You can offer and sign before the senior season or wait until February after the season.

This is for fall sports. You can consider the best approach for the scholarship year and for signing and transfer periods for winter and spring sports. This is reasonable. It allows rosters to be set at least by mid-summer and coaches and teams get to focus on playing the season to its end before entering the season of roster management. And, it is not driven by the January semester starting date and March spring practice date to force the chaos of roster management right as the season is reaching its end.

 

[GTLiebs]

Is there even one program on probation right now?

Given various past bullshit I'm sure we still are somehow.

 

[Kcs_Tech]

You are correct it is a wild west. Forget about enrolling for a moment. Is there anyone even at the NCAA office? Enforcement is non-existent. I really believe if you missed the deadlines and just had ringers show up in the summer, who would even notice? Is there even one program on probation right now?

Tennessee is still on probation. If we are faced with probation again we should just sue the NCAA and conduct a media campaign against them for not being evenhanded.

 

[GT65_UGA89]

So Deloitte will have oversight of the “NIL Clearinghouse”

…The answer, though not easy, is that athletes land true endorsement and commercial deals from outside the school with third-party brands and companies. Third-party deals do not count against a school’s salary cap. However, in an effort to limit booster involvement, the settlement orders all third-party deals of $600 or more from school-affiliated boosters, or collections of them, to gain approval from a new NIL clearinghouse.

The clearinghouse, operated by Deloitte, is charged with verifying the authenticity of these deals using “fair market value” rates, poised to eliminate phony booster-backed compensation agreements so prevalent in the industry over the previous three years.

 

[USCJacket]

The transfer portal is wild. I'm an adjunct at a university with D1 athletics and D1 FCS football. Classes started yesterday, and I had two student-athletes show up to my class last night who said they were wait listed and hoping to get into my class. The FB player had been in town less than a week, and the lacrosse player moved from D.C. to town Sunday and started registering for classes Monday morning. I'm doing what I can to get them on my roster. The athletic academic advisor reached out concerning the FB player, but I haven't seen any advocating for the lacrosse player, so I'll pursue that on my own. I wonder how those who are still on playoff teams will navigate transferring if they choose to after their last games. I assume they will j miss spring practice and enroll for fall.
Just another example of the "wild west" mentality that has been created.

Spring Portal probably at this point.

 

[ee8384]

So Deloitte will have oversight of the “NIL Clearinghouse”

…The answer, though not easy, is that athletes land true endorsement and commercial deals from outside the school with third-party brands and companies. Third-party deals do not count against a school’s salary cap. However, in an effort to limit booster involvement, the settlement orders all third-party deals of $600 or more from school-affiliated boosters, or collections of them, to gain approval from a new NIL clearinghouse.

The clearinghouse, operated by Deloitte, is charged with verifying the authenticity of these deals using “fair market value” rates, poised to eliminate phony booster-backed compensation agreements so prevalent in the industry over the previous three years.

Bye, bye ON3.