O’Mega Blake back in the portal
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This is the negative side of the portal. I don't know a thing about this young man, but this bouncing from school to school is not good. Is he getting an education? What if he's not good enough to play pro football? If his playing career ends, how is he going to support himself. My guess is that no one is giving him sound advice.
However, he must be getting NIL money and hoping that continues wherever he lands next season. He may be just fine. Anyway, I wish him well.
However, he must be getting NIL money and hoping that continues wherever he lands next season. He may be just fine. Anyway, I wish him well.
The transfer portal is antithetical to the education process. No normal college student who is pursuing a degree bounces around to 3, 4, or 5 different schools. In 2023, 13% of college students nationally transferred colleges. For FBS scholarship football players, the number was 25%.
There used to be some guardrails up to, as much as possible, make sure these athletes made some attempt at getting an education. We knew you couldn't leave it up to them. Now we are leaving entirely up to them and you see what's happening. It is to their own detriment.
That's right. Just because students are free to do it doesn't mean that rank-and-file students do it. It's impractical, expensive, and usually costs credits already earned. It's not realistic. College athletics needs to fix the insanity.
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Reduce the number of scholarship players on the roster at any one time, say to 60-65. That might minimize the insanity.
Or put a cap on the # of transfer portal players schools can take in any given cycle, say 8 per cycle. That would force schools to be more selective about who they take and make players strongly consider whether it's worth entering the portal. I think you'd see the top shelf guys who are guaranteed a landing spot still jump in but a sharp decrease in the massive # of players who are just looking to maybe land somewhere better or even just different.
It would force the focus back to recruiting to build the roster with the portal being for plugging holes.
Notably, this doesn't take any freedom away from the athlete. They can still transfer as much as they want, but the number of potential landing spots would be greatly reduced.
IIRC, he left USC with encouragement to seek more playing time. So he went to a smaller school. I guess he is now looking to bounce back up to a P4 school again.
That is not going to happen without a CBA. The courts have the NCAA's hands tied on all this right now.
I don't think a cap on the number of transfers a school can take from the portal is covered by any of the court rulings.
Players are still free to enter the portal as much as they want, which is what the court rulings dealt with.
This is not a limitation or restriction on the players, but on the schools.