Florida Gators safety Corey Collier Jr. announces intentions to transfer
Florida Gators safety Corey Collier Jr. announced his intent to enter the NCAA transfer portal on Sunday in a post on Twitter. The young defensive back played in four games this season for Billy Napier’s squad, primarily on special teams. He recorded his first career tackle in the Oct. 2 win over Eastern Washington.
The redshirt freshman played in two games last year, making his debut versus Vanderbilt in October.
Collier was a four-star player coming out of Miami Palmetto high school in Miami, Florida. He was the No. 110 overall player in the 2021 signing class and No. 16 in the Sunshine State, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.
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Transfer portal background information
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 starts with the 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.
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 However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship is no longer valid. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school does not have to cover their scholarship.
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 for a “do not contact” tag on the report. In those instances, the players don’t want contact from schools unless they initiate the communication.