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HuskyNan said:
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Not sure if someone has written an article about this, but there needs to be an in depth one or a 30 for 30 on what happens to a lot of these athletes who enter the portal and don’t find a home. I really would love to know what the repercussions are for a good chunk of these players. At some point you have to wonder if kids start to see many getting stuck with nowhere to go and honestly take a good look if the portal is a good choice. I’m looking at players who are in positions that are open, like our two QBs, McDonald and Farar
 
UCFBfan said:
Not sure if someone has written an article about this, but there needs to be an in depth one or a 30 for 30 on what happens to a lot of these athletes who enter the portal and don’t find a home. I really would love to know what the repercussions are for a good chunk of these players. At some point you have to wonder if kids start to see many getting stuck with nowhere to go and honestly take a good look if the portal is a good choice. I’m looking at players who are in positions that are open, like our two QBs, McDonald and Farar
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Not an article, but some truth to this presser.

 
One thing we seem to have overlooked is that all these guys that UConn is interested in, most of them have to visit before committing?? Good gosh, the budget for recruiting out of the portal must be huge. And that adds to the AD workload. Booking flights, hotels, transport, maybe 20 players a day, something like that. Holy cow!
 
RSTuthill said:
One thing we seem to have overlooked is that all these guys that UConn is interested in, most of them have to visit before committing?? Good gosh, the budget for recruiting out of the portal must be huge. And that adds to the AD workload. Booking flights, hotels, transport, maybe 20 players a day, something like that. Holy cow!
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Cost is cost but not really different than those big high school on-campus recruiting weekends w/ all those families… all travel arrangements are made by Anthony Travel. Candle was smart to retain a few Football Ops staff from the Mora era who walk the walk.
 
AllHusky said:
The volume of players and data to be sifted through is ridiculous.
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That's why everyone is hiring GM's. Too late to do much this cycle, but I can see a year 'round operation tracking former highly rated recruits languishing on the sidelines while three others at their position get the playing time. It's been mentioned before that these days when a kid chooses another school you do what Mora did, wish them well and keep them in mind for a year or two later when you have a spot for them and they want to play.

We have some great examples of what it can mean to a player sitting on the sidelines who imagines themselves leading a team to a new record of victories, and how their success here translates to being named an All-American and getting drafted........assuming Bell and Fagnano get drafted.

Look at the job Tom Moore did finding Malachi Smith and several others to fill roster spots and win games for us that we might otherwise have lost. It's a new world and hopefully JC adapts and succeeds.
 
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Scrutineer said:
That's why everyone is hiring GM's. Too late to do much this cycle, but I can see a year 'round operation tracking former highly rated recruits languishing on the sidelines while three others at their position get the playing time. It's been mentioned before that these days when a kid chooses another school you do what Mora did, wish them well and keep them in mind for a year or two later when you have a spot for them and they want to play.

We have some great examples of what it can mean to a player sitting on the sidelines who imagines themselves leading a team to a new record of victories, and how their success here translates to being named an All-American and getting drafted........assuming Bell and Fagnano get drafted.

Look at the job Tom Moore did finding Malachi Smith and several others to fill roster spots and win games for us that we might otherwise have lost. It's a new world and hopefully JC adapts and succeeds.
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A round ball example on the football board. You were doing great until your last paragraph. 😉
 
How exactly does it all work? I assume the coaches give a certain number of offers and then players either commit or decline. And then they give out more offers. Or do they give out a slew of offers and then retract an offer if the slot is no longer available?
 
How does it work?

Everyone does their job.

War room isn’t a bad idea. But the personnel people look at the portal, review film, rank the players, contact the agents to see if there is interest and that the numbers are in the ballpark.

The rest is kind of elementary.
 
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How much do college football transfers earn in the NIL and revenue-sharing era?
 
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If a player enters the portal, are they officially off their current team roster?

Asked differently, is there actual risk in entering the portal so that if no other school takes you, can you just stay with current school?

Someone stated 4,500 players in portal. Do all 4,500 players actually change schools? That would be interesting stat.

It seems the current atmosphere is to just enter portal and see where chips land. Can’t imagine how this is good for the sport long term, with 1/3 of all players willing to up and leave. No loyalty, no value on school/education itself or college experience. Or even long term job possibilities after college should NFL not work out. Just ‘show me the money’.
 
I imagine that in most cases there are conversations between the players and coaches prior to players entering the portal.

As scholarships are renewable, technically any kid could be removed from the roster when the school year ends regardless of whether he did or did not enter through portal.

I imagine most who enter the portal know if they can or cannot return and I would wager that the better the player is, the more likely it us that he could return to his school.
 
RSTuthill said:
Will changing colors be a thing in the process? At 4,000 players divided into position groupings, tough to see on a computer screen. But you know, there must be some purpose built software commercially available for this already, so I concede your point.

One thing that did occur to me is that speed is of the essence. All the position groups have to be done in parallel.
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Lol
 
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JohnFSilver said:
Who is the quarterback. Everything else will be fine.
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Bo Polston. Think “Poachin’” - as in a Candle recruit poached from Toledo.
 
Alum86 said:
Bo Polston. Think “Poachin’” - as in a Candle recruit poached from Toledo.
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There will be a QB transfer or two, there's a long way to go before a stater is named. Bo might redshirt if we land a big transfer.
 
tiger paw said:
Do any of the In -bound players have to get a OK from the admissions office ? Do their academic records have to be provided ?
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Of course, but I don't think the bar is too high. There was a time when that stuff was always an issue at UConn. It seems that time has passed. We seem to get very high character kids, so maybe the bar is lower academically these days, as long as the kid is a solid person.
 
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tiger paw said:
Do any of the In -bound players have to get a OK from the admissions office ? Do their academic records have to be provided ?
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Non-NCAA site:

www.ncsasports.org

NCAA Transfer Portal and Rules: The Ultimate Guide for 2026

Get the latest on NCAA transfer rules, answers to all your NCAA transfer portal questions, and learn the impact to you in your college recruiting journey.
www.ncsasports.org www.ncsasports.org

NCAA site (not sure if most recent)

www.ncaa.org

Division I Council approves changes to transfer rules - NCAA.org

The Division I Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a package of rules changes to allow transferring student-athletes who meet certain academic eligibility requirements
www.ncaa.org www.ncaa.org
 
RSTuthill said:
There wld be 4,000 cards. That wld take days just to get started.
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No there would not be. It’s 4000 players across four divisions of football.

Some are out of our price range or have a do not contact. Others are pretty easy to see that they aren’t worth looking at.
 
Patman said:
tea leaves.

Look, lets have some trust for the football guys to do football things. We trusted mora and he did alright
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That was a question put to a fan who suggested a method to cut down the data set to a more manageable size by using an initial screen. Not to a "UConn football guy". It is a legitimate topic of discussion during this blackout
 
ZooCougar said:
No there would not be. It’s 4000 players across four divisions of football.

Some are out of our price range or have a do not contact. Others are pretty easy to see that they aren’t worth looking at.
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Good point, but one without a difference. UConn got a pretty good center from FCS. Wild bet there are a few players in D3 who cld play at the FBS level. So do you exclude all the D3 players or find some way to screen them? This is just a speculative rhetorical discussion anyway since we have no way of knowing what is actually happening.
 
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