Alabama specialist withdraws name from NCAA Transfer Portal

Alabama punter Ty Perine, who entered the NCAA Transfer Portal nearly two weeks ago, has now withdrawn from the NCAA Transfer Portal, On3’s Matt Zentz has learned.

Barring another change, Perine will presumably return to the Alabama program next fall. He has three years of eligibility remaining.

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The former walk-on turned starting punter spent the past two seasons on the bench for the Crimson Tide. When he first entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, he issued the following statement on Twitter:

“Thank you God for the opportunities you have placed before me & for the ones you haven’t,” Perine wrote. “I will be graduating in May & looking to start a new athletic & academic career else where. With 3 years of eligibility remaining, I have officially entered the transfer portal!”

Perine appeared in six games in 2019, earning Freshman All-SEC Team honors from the coaches after taking over the starting job for Alabama midway through the season. He has 13 career punt attempts for 581 yards, averaging 44.7 yards per punt. He had just one touchdown with two punter fair caught and two inside the opponent’s 20-yard line.

The 6-foot-1 junior spent the 2021 season behind Australian freshman James Burnip and Troy transfer Jack Martin and did not see game action.

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Background on the NCAA Transfer Portal after Perine withdraws

The NCAA Transfer Portal, which covers every NCAA sport at the Division I, II and III levels, is a private database with names of student-athletes who wish to transfer. It is not accessible to the public.

The process of entering the portal is done through a school’s compliance office. Once a player provides written notification of an intent to transfer, the office enters the player’s name in the database and everything is off and running. The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player’s request and that request cannot be refused.

Once a player’s name shows up in the portal, other schools can contact the player. Players can change their minds at any point and withdraw from the portal. However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship no longer has to be honored. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school is not obligated to provide a scholarship anymore.

The database is a normal database, sortable by a variety of topics, including (of course) sport and name. A player’s individual entry includes basic details such as contact info, whether the player was on scholarship and whether the player is transferring as a graduate student.

A player can ask that a “do not contact” tag be placed on the report. In those instances, the players don’t want to be  contacted by schools unless they’ve initiated the communication.

The portal has been around since Oct. 15, 2018 and the new calendar cycle within the portal begins each August. For example, the 2021-22 cycle started Aug. 1. During the 2020-21 cycle, 2,626 FBS football players entered the transfer portal (including walk-ons). That comes after 1,681 entered during the 2019-20 cycle and 1,709 during the abbreviated 2018-19 cycle. In comparison, 1,833 Division I basketball players entered the portal during the 2020-21 cycle after totals of 1,020 in 2019-20 and 1,063 in 2018-19.

On3’s James Fletcher III contributed to this report.