Oregon announces date, time for 2023 spring football game

On3 imageby:Jarrid Denney01/30/23

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The date and time for Oregon’s 2023 spring football game have officially been revealed.

On Monday, UO announced that its annual spring game will be held Saturday, April 29 at 1 p.m. PT and will air on Pac-12 Network.

Per the press release, admission to the spring game is free. Fans are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to donate to Food For Lane County.

Oregon’s spring game will offer the program’s fans their first glimpse at the Ducks’ offense under newly-hired offensive coordinator Will Stein, who joined Dan Lanning’s staff after working in the same position at UTSA last season.

The Ducks’ spring scrimmage will also feature a plethora of new players who have joined the program by way of the transfer portal.

That includes former South Carolina EDGE Jordan Burch, former Fresno State safety Evan Williams, and former Troy receiver Tez Johnson.

There has been no announcement yet on when Oregon will officially kick off spring practice.

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 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.

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