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The best RB in the portal just went from Georgia Tech to Alabama

we'll need him. likely to lose 1-2 rbs to portal ourselves.

I think the Buckeyes have almost exclusively stolen from other P5 programs:

2019: QB Justin Fields (GA), OL Jonah Jackson (Rutger)
2020: RB Trey Sermon (OK)
2021: K Noah Ruggles (UNC), LB Palaie Gaoteote (USC)

Jackson was All Big Ten at Rutgers, but you could probably make that argument for the other 4.

Arizona State RB DeaMonte Trayanum transferring to the Buckeyes, though likely as a linebacker. Originally from Akron

I wonder how true this is. Like, do fans like stability? Do they want to say "Hey, that guy is still there?" We know fans like a degree of movement, or at least they are ravenously interested in it.

Obviously fans dislike when their teams lose someone, though they're also good at convincing themselves the losses are just part of it.

There's also the fact that fans are, with perpetual regularity, calling for the benching of players, the playing of younger players and the firing of every sort of coach alive so they can hire every other sort of coach alive. Fan money is literally creating more instability, not less.

The turnover is part of college football - at least more so than pro.  
But instead of dreaming on what that great SOPH player is going to do with more playing time, you're left fretting that he's going to leave.  Your good OL depth can become a weakness now.
And sure, it goes both ways, your school can gain from it, but it's just another way for the rich to get richer.  Alabama's got LB depth/injury problems?  That's cool, they'll just poach Tennessee's leading tackler.

And what about the players themselves?  I'm a QB who got benched for a younger guy?  Instead of improving and getting back on the field at my school, I'll just leave and go find playing time somewhere else where I can keep doing what I'm doing.

I understood how unfair it was that HCs could leave and players had to sit out a  year, but I think the current model is a radical over-correction the other way.  

Maryland got a good WR from Florida in Jacob Copeland.

Have seen his LB film? Incredible.

That’s where Ohio State recruited him originally but he wanted to play running back and that’s the only reason he didn’t start at Ohio State which was the school he loved to begin with.

we'll see if RB works. I'm just sayin' lol. As an idiot fan, much rather see OSU get these types of undersized transfer position switchers playing LB for the Bucks