SMU offers Arizona State transfer DL Robby Harrison
SMU offered Arizona State defensive line transfer Robby Harrison, a 6-4, 325-pounder who is leaving the Sun Devils after one season. Harrison played in three games this season and will have four years of eligibility remaining.
Marshall, Coastal Carolina, Louisiana, USF, Memphis, Indiana, Cincinnati and others have offered the former three-star prospect as well.
Harrison entered the NCAA Transfer Portal last week. The SMU Mustangs are looking to add depth at the nose tackle position behind former Miami transfer Jordan Miller.
According to the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies, Harrison ranked as the No. 148 overall defensive lineman in the country. He held offers from Indiana, Minnesota, Kansas State and others.
SMU also offered Illinois State transfer defensive lineman Jude Okolo earlier this spring and will host North Texas transfer defensive lineman Cam Robertson this weekend for an official visit.
Transfer portal background information
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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.
