We live in a different day and age of college football.
Years ago, when you committed to playing for a school, that’s where you were going and you were going to be there for the next four or five years of your life. Now, we live in a world of instant gratification.
Anything you want, you can have it right now. Enter, the transfer portal. Or should we say, college free agency? If you aren’t getting as much playing time as you want, you can leave. That’s what a lot of kids are doing nowadays.
There are enough athletes in the transfer portal right now to make a brand-new team and a pretty good one. So, what is the trickle-down effect that will come from this “free agency?”
National Signing Day feels like Christmas every year for college football coaches. All of the fans that are keeping track of recruits are on the edge of their seats waiting to see who will join next. That day has lost a lot of its luster now because if you miss on a high school kid, you can look in the transfer portal and find a player with college experience at the highest level already.
That guy is already ahead of the game. If you sign a high school kid at a position and then get a transfer at the same position, what makes you think that high school kid will stay? He could hit the portal just as easily as the other guy.
The rabbit hole never ends.
I don’t know how this will all play out, but I feel like we’re headed toward an inevitable black hole.
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