NCAA transfer portal

He still is obviously.

So yeah, we had a new coach come in and I think people are really quick to jump the gun on oh new coach I need to transfer right now the transfer portal is super it's a super big thing right now I understand why some people do it but but yeah no so I was I loved it there and I was like I'm gonna see what happens you know you never know who knows maybe this will be the best thing ever you never know so I stayed met the coach she was you know she seemed great when we first met and not to say that she's a bad person now just you know things change but You know, we had a spring, spring's tough.

It was my freshman year spring.

I didn't really know what to expect.

and making the decision to transfer is a is a big one so talk about that and like i said like what advice would you have to somebody in that same position yeah

absolutely if i could go back i would do it so differently but i also wouldn't trade it for the world I mean, the transfer portal, I think, is such a gift for athletes.

And, you know, you can look at it in a bunch of different ways.

But I think that, like we said, when we're in, I mean, high school, committing to these colleges, we don't know what we want.

So when I went into the portal, I had no clue what to expect, but It honestly is the most insane few weeks.

I say few weeks because, you know, you went through it is extensive and you're on phone calls all day.

And I will say like going into the transfer portal, I didn't really think I had much like to offer because I played a total of like 11 minutes.

I think we're really calculating at Arizona.

Okay.

Um, I like the NIL and the transfer portal.

Dabo Swinney does not.

And I ...

What Dabo's doing is like a CEO of a company saying, "I don't believe in the internet or AI." It's like, guys, this is the new world.

Like, I, what do you do with Dabo if they get smoked this weekend?

Well, I'm not an expert in IL- NIL and transfer portal 'cause that was not there.

It came right after I was done.

we had transfers on my track team at tennessee in the early nineteen seventies and all of them dutifully waited a year to be eligible battle however didn't want to wait and neither did athletes in other states In 2023, a federal judge in Charleston, West Virginia, ruled that the NCAA's transfer regulation was a restraint of trade and enjoined the organization from enforcing it.

the NCAA gave in, thus creating the spectacle of the transfer portal in which every athlete is a free agent and during certain times of the year can transfer to another university and be immediately eligible at his or her new landing spot.

The combination of both NIL payments and perpetual free agency has created a situation in which athletes transfer to places that offer them more money.

Unlike professional sports, athletes are not under contract and are free to pursue new programs, and those new programs are free to pursue the athletes, ostensibly only after they have entered the transfer portal.

Although it is obvious that the no-contact rule is regularly violated, this is the situation of which Bishop wrote.

True absurdity came from the bench this Monday, with a Texas judge granting an injunction against the NCAA's attempts to ban Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby from the sport after admitting to a laundry list of gambling-related offenses, including numerous bets on his own team and using third parties to place bets to avoid sportsbook restrictions.

And so you're gonna get kids that, that wanna do that, right? You're gonna get kids that their whole life they've wanted to play at an FBS school.

And, um, and let's be honest, like we've reaped the benefits of- The transfer portal at NIL.

I, there's a lot of high school kids not getting recruited anymore-

Yeah

We gonna talk a little bit about his playing days and then, you know, just the, the arena of college sports, what he's dealing with at Hampton.

You know, his outlook on the season and the transfer portal.

We'll get into everything, man, so welcome to the show.

Yeah, appreciate you, man.