Transfer Portal...how many?

I don’t know the rules either. What I can tell you if I was a damn good player I’d put LSU on my short list because more than likely you can get plenty of playing time quickly.

Incoming transfers count toward your 25 scholarship per year limit. Additionally, this year you’re allowed to sign up to 7 more transfers to replace outgoing transfers. This number is capped at the number of outgoing transfers. I think the plan is to make the 7 “replacement” transfer thing a permanent rule.

You can sign 25 no matter where they come from.

You can sign an additional 7 from the portal.

Total of 32.

Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

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I'm confused as hell

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Doesn’t help that a ton of folks spout off incorrect information with an impressive amount of confidence.

You get 25 “initial counters” a year. This effectively means 25 players who are accepting scholarships from LSU for the first time (hence the “initial” part). Those players can be high school recruits or transfers.

This year, the NCAA added a waiver to exceed the initial counter cap in order to replace players that transferred out. We get one additional initial counter (up to a total of 7 extra) for each player that transfers out of the program, provided:
1. The player transfers out between 12/15/21 and 7/31/22. (Note: The start date might actually be 12/11/21. I’m not sure how exactly the NCAA/LSU define “the last day of the fall term.”)
2. The player would have been academically eligible at LSU for the next term, had they not transferred.

So you get your standard 25 initial counters, plus up to 7 additional initial counters from the transfer waiver, plus any other extra initial counters you have (e.g. back-counting scholarships, midyear replacement, etc.) from normal loopholes. For all intents and purposes it’s safe to assume it’s 25 plus 0-7 depending on how many qualifying transfers we have.

Those 25-32 initial counters can be used on either high school recruits, JUCO, or transfer portal guys; it doesn’t matter and is completely up to the coach. I think we can also use the extra initial counters for 2023 early enrollees (the normal “back-counting” process when you sign less than a full class) if we don’t use them.

ETA: We only get the full 7 extra spots if we have 7+ players who depart between the end of the 2021 fall semester (mid December) and July 31, 2022. We don’t get to sign any additional players for guys who depart before that period.

On the flip side, its actually not just transfers that count as “departures.” According to the NCAA Q&A document, NFL draft early entrants qualify as well as long as they would have remained academically eligible the following semester.

I suspect the academic eligibility piece may burn us for some guys. If a player declared for the draft as an early entrant (e.g. still had remaining eligibility) and opted out of the bowl because he didn’t make the grades to stay academically eligible, we won’t get an extra spot for his departure.

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If so, they must be asleep or on crack.

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If they’re on crack, they wouldn’t be asleep, and would probably do a better job than the NCAA has.

So how many transfers can we actually expect to pick up based on that information. Meaning, how many guys in the portal leaving within that window so far?

Eli Ricks
Trey Palmer
Max Johnson
Bug Strong
Can't think of any others off hand.

Wasn't sure if Eli Ricks was within the window as well.

The other tough reality, and its been stated here before, is that there are very few established big time guys in the portal (for obvious reasons), and the few that are seem to have committed somewhere else already. Hoping the end of the season brings fresh faces to the portal, otherwise we will be signing a lot of guys mainly for depth and not for actual contributions.

Not sure how many for the portal only but I know lsu can take a maximum of 17 more players junior college transfers, transfer portal and commitments to be enrolled with 15 currently and 14 have enrolled at lsu

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So how many transfers can we actually expect to pick up based on that information. Meaning, how many guys in the portal leaving within that window so far?

Eli Ricks
Trey Palmer
Max Johnson
Bug Strong
Can't think of any others off hand.

Wasn't sure if Eli Ricks was within the window as well.

The other tough reality, and its been stated here before, is that there are very few established big time guys in the portal (for obvious reasons), and the few that are seem to have committed somewhere else already. Hoping the end of the season brings fresh faces to the portal, otherwise we will be signing a lot of guys mainly for depth and not for actual contributions.

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dont forget the nfl guys, if they remained academic elgible you can replace those too.

That's the big concern for quite a few of them. I know Damone Clark graduated, so he was definitely eligible, and I am assuming TDP was, but cannot confirm. Not sure on Flott. The rest I believe were in their last year of eligibility, which if I am not mistaken, doesn't count toward the transfer rule.