re: The transfer portal might have saved college football

This is a bad take. Schools don’t stay great forever. They typically have runs of greatness followed by mediocrity. bama is the exception, not the rule.

Ex. LSU has a run every four or five years. Remember when USC was unbeatable for a four or five year window? Clemson was bad for a decade, then slowly built up and is now going back down. The ACC was set up the way it was because FSU and Miami were considered too powerful to be in the same division. A decade later and they are both has-beens. UGA will have its run then come back to median.

The transfer portal just allows guys like DeMarcus Ware (Troy), Khalil Mack (Buffalo), Jason Taylor (Akron) or Willie Roaf (La. Tech) to get picked up by bigger schools that can pay more money to them with no repercussions.

And now recruiting doesn’t matter anyway. If I was a coach at a big time school, I’m developing a feeder system where I can stash players to develop then bring in when they are RS jrs & srs.

I love college football. But my interest has been greatly diminished.