'Mass Chaos:' FBS staffers surveyed on what to expect from the 2023 Transfer Portal cycle

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'Mass Chaos:' FBS staffers surveyed on what to expect from the 2023 Transfer Portal cycle

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From 24/7 Sports:

What will the 2023 transfer portal cycle be like when the FBS window opens on Dec. 5? One staffer at a Pac-12 school may have summed it up the best: “It will make December 5th the most important day on the college football calendar.”

With the window opening looming on the horizon, we asked that exact question (and many others) of more than a dozen FBS player personnel and recruiting staffers to preview what promises to be a blockbuster offseason for college football’s supercharged version of free agency. As one in-the-know person told me this week: "There will be players who are happy at their schools who still decide to enter, just to see what kind of NIL package they can get." We saw plenty examples of that last cycle, but expect even more of it this time around.

Adding to the chaos are some significant rule changes that will impact this cycle’s proceedings. Schools are no longer limited to signing just 25 initial counters per cycle. This means programs can aggressively rework their rosters to sign up to their 85-scholarship limit. Many across the country believe that this will lead to players being run off rosters. The NCAA also passed a rule that schools are required to keep transfer athletes on scholarship through the completion of their eligibility clock or until they complete their undergraduate degree. This means there’s more risk than ever in taking an undergraduate transfer, because they’re stuck on the roster no matter what.

This is the first cycle with transfer portal windows, which stretch from Dec. 5 to January 18 for the FBS with another period from April 15-30. No longer can players enter the portal whenever they please, though there are always exceptions to the rules. Graduate transfers and players whose head coaches have left the program are not subjected to these guidelines, which is why athletes have already started entering the portal.(excerpt)

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Player free agency has come to college football. Legal "one time no fault" transfers coupled with a player's ability to be paid for use of their name, image, and likeness.

This creates situations where teams can quickly rise like USC or crash like Oklahoma with movement of talent between schools. Throw in the NCAA's ineffectual ability/willingness to regulate, will we see a wild west of open bidding for players in the coming weeks?

Closer to home, would Buckeye players like Emeka Egbuka, Marvin Harrison Jr. and J. T. Tuimoloau test the transfer waters to discover their true earnings power? Will Ohio State and Ryan Day actively recruit the transfer market to upgrade the roster? Will head coaches roster management responsibility grow to include re-recruiting their existing players in addition to high school players?

I for one am uncomfortable with change, yet change in college football is here and will only accelerate with mega tv money and expanded playoffs.

What are your thoughts?


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