Ya know, I haven't kept up with the detailed nuances of the transfer portal rules since it became a thing, once I swapped careers from football back to tech.
I was entrenched in all things Bama football, especially recruiting. 10 years ago I was working all the Nick Saban camps in the summer, coaching high school ball in the fall. I used to be able to recall verbatim every current and incoming player's name, hometown, measurables, and high school stats.
But the last couple years, it's taken me a couple of games into the season to well verse myself on the names of contributing players that hadn't become household names at the time.
Since it's not my profession anymore, and going thru a divorce in the last decade and trying being more present for my kids with that obstacle, I just don't have the same mental energy devoted to maintaining the level of informational acumen that I once did.
RE: Tranfer portal
I think I understand the current rule that no COACH can recruit a current player until said player officially enters the portal.
But consider the one dynamic that hasn't changed in decades:
These high school kids form relationships with other top recruits in camp and 7-on-7 circuits. Committed high school kids help coaches recruit other kids, especially in Dead Periods. So what's stopping a college coach from using his current player's relationship with "__X" player from another university as a back door to recruit them thru the current player in an effort to lure the kid at the other school into the portal?
Care to enlighten a former coach, [USER=6]@Brandon Van de Graaff[/USER]?
