Portal Out

[JMV JustMyView]

Once your name is in the transfer portal it allows a program to officially contact you and not before. It's part of the guidelines to transfer, how are the two not related?

They are related.

[CajunVic]

Correct. If a kid enters the portal that means they don't want to be where there at regardless of the reasons.

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[CajunVic]

Once your name is in the transfer portal it allows a program to officially contact you and not before. It's part of the guidelines to transfer, how are the two not related?

They are two different things. The immediate eligibility rule could have happened without the portal. The portal could have happened without the immediate eligibility rule.

Both together facilitate more transfers, however I believe the immediate eligibility is the dog and the portal is the tail.

[CajunT]

Conference or not being 10-1 and ranked 15th taking a kid from a 0-10 football team is reaching down. What school was the Wr at? Mcneese and Nichols aren’t in our same division, p5 and g5 play in the same division..if we take anyone from the G5 not in the AAC it would be reaching down the same way a P5 taking a G5 player in that case. Michael Jefferson from FCS Alabama state is the kid I was thinking of.

The WR has his degree, but two years of eligibility left. So he is technically a graduate student is he not?

[CajunVic]

The WR has his degree, but two years of eligibility left. So he is technically a graduate student is he not?

That is another rule which has nothing to do with the other two items.

[CrazyCajun]

He is from FCS is he not? Same division as mcneese and Nichols no? If we wanted him and he wanted us we could go get him regardless right? I doubt this staff brought him here just bc he graduated, I’m sure they think he can play here and contribute. Just like any other stud player we want playing at a school that “would be reaching down” P5’s aren’t the only ones who can “reach down”. It still all boils down to building a winning program that kids want to be a part of...like it always has been about. As long as there are roster limits it will all work out in the wash.

[J-Town Cajun]

UL baseball: Ben Fitzgerald is in the portal.

[CrazyCajun]

First of many I believe, I’ve heard a few more names

[CajunT]

He is from FCS is he not? Same division as mcneese and Nichols no? If we wanted him and he wanted us we could go get him regardless right? I doubt this staff brought him here just bc he graduated, I’m sure they think he can play here and contribute. Just like any other stud player we want playing at a school that “would be reaching down” P5’s aren’t the only ones who can “reach down”. It still all boils down to building a winning program that kids want to be a part of...like it always has been about. As long as there are roster limits it will all work out in the wash.

Again, you are being repetitive and argumentative for nothing. I didn't say we could not reach down for players in the FCS and that he can't help the program. Check the record, he was All-Conference 1st one year, that's hardly the same thing as being of the best in that conference over a two or three year period. It's not the same as taken the Top PG in MBB the last two years in MBB in the SBC, or the best DL, QB, etc. That is what P5 programs are doing to replace depth in their programs.

Check out the list of transfers in MBB, you may see more leaving P5 programs but are they the best players? No! Now check out the number of players leaving G5 programs for P5 programs, and you will see some of the best players from those conferences leaving the lower level. That's my point, when it comes to quality, the P5 is getting better players to help their programs rather than players buried in the depth chart or leaving because of coaching changes. The same holds true for G5 Football Players transferring to P5.

Thanks for the conversation.

[CajunVic]

Again, you are being repetitive and argumentative for nothing. I didn't say we could not reach down for players in the FCS and that he can't help the program. Check the record, he was All-Conference 1st one year, that's hardly the same thing as being of the best in that conference over a two or three year period. It's not the same as taken the Top PG in MBB the last two years in MBB in the SBC, or the best DL, QB, etc. That is what P5 programs are doing to replace depth in their programs.

Check out the list of transfers in MBB, you may see more leaving P5 programs but are they the best players? No! Now check out the number of players leaving G5 programs for P5 programs, and you will see some of the best players from those conferences leaving the lower level. That's my point, when it comes to quality, the P5 is getting better players to help their programs rather than players buried in the depth chart or leaving because of coaching changes. The same holds true for G5 Football Players transferring to P5.

Thanks for the conversation.

I definitely agree with that. Generally, G5 will be picking from the middle to lower ranked players on P5 rosters while P5’s will be picking more from the top of the G5 rosters. Cream rises to the top and those at the top that probably don’t belong will move to their more competitive level.