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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 3157758, member: 549"] Good read for those that have access to The Athletic: [URL='https://theathletic.com/980278/2019/05/16/ncaa-transfer-portal-numbers-college-football/']The fuzzy math of the NCAA Transfer Portal[/URL] >>The Division I Council’s 2017 recruiting reform package that established an early signing period and earlier official visits included a stricter limit of 25 initial counters (signees) per year for FBS programs. This tougher standard, done in an effort to further curb oversigning and other roster manipulation, has put coaches in a bind this offseason. In the 2019 recruiting class, Power 5 schools finished with an average of 22 signees. These recruiting staffs can get creative with their accounting and find ways to squeeze in more than 25, but the point is this: if you signed 22, you can only take three, four, maybe five transfers this offseason. There are extreme exceptions — Miami signed 17, so the Hurricanes have been able to bring in eight transfers — but in general the limit of 25 initial counters doesn’t allow for many portal acquisitions. One Power 5 recruiting coordinator told [I]The Athletic [/I]he’s receiving emails every day from hopeful transfers. His staff already signed two this offseason and now has “very, very little” room for more. That’s the case across the country right now, and too many transfer players don’t realize how many doors are actually closed. “They have no idea — NONE — that the NCAA put in the hard 25 initial rule in,” another Power 5 staffer said. “They think anyone can go anywhere.” A far more frustrating complication to this, coaches say, is when you do lose players to the portal, you don’t have room to replace them. This has emerged as a popular topic of discussion and consternation in conference coaches’ meetings in recent weeks, as coaches who have lost a lot of players this offseason come to realize it may take them years to get back to the 85-man scholarship limit. Edwards says the Sun Devils’ scholarship count is currently in the “low 70s,” and he’ll need two years to make it up. “We need some way to replace some of those guys,” said Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente, who’s had 12 players leave for various reasons. “I think it starts with player safety. You walk into spring ball with one running back, it’s a pretty tough situation. You move a guy to running back, and he’ll want to transfer because he didn’t want to switch positions. It’s a little bit of a never-ending cycle. It does seem fair to find a way to address some of that.”<< [/QUOTE]

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