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Whole situation getting messier

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/in-latest-blow-to-florida-football-program-5-star-db-chris-steele-opts-to-transfer-170745599.html

Whole situation getting messier

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/in-latest-blow-to-florida-football-program-5-star-db-chris-steele-opts-to-transfer-170745599.html

Steele is a guy whom OU tried to recruit, and the story you linked is the story I saw on an OU message board earlier today.
I wonder if he plans to sit out a year or if he'll go the JC route.
Of course, he could decide to stay at Florida.

Fred Hoiberg and Nebraska basketball struck gold on the transfer market once again on Friday, as the Huskers landed a commitment from Nevada and Pitt transfer Shamiel Stevenson.

The 6-foot-6, 230-pound Stevenson was a member of the class of 2017, and initially chose Pitt, where he averaged 8.5 points and 4.4 rebounds per game as a freshman. He shot 50.5 percent from the field, including 37.5 percent from 3-point range.

As a sophomore, Stevenson didn’t appear to mesh with new Pitt head coach Jeff Capel, and appeared in just four games, earning 32 total minutes. He averaged 3.8 points last year before announcing his intention to transfer from Pitt. Three days later, he signed with Nevada. He never appeared in a game for Nevada, and wouldn’t have been eligible until the second semester this coming season. Stevenson put his name in the NCAA transfer portal on April 19 after then-Nevada coach Eric Musselman took the head coaching job at Arkansas.


A native of Toronto, Stevenson played his high school ball at Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix. Coming out of high school, Stevenson was a three-star prospect with an overall rating of 0.8681 according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite.

Nebraska now has three open scholarships for the 2019-20 season.

the Huskers are in need of an ILB

not near his home, but an opportunity to start immediately 

Although he doesn’t necessarily think about it in these terms, Marquel Dismuke’s story at Nebraska runs contrary to the transfer culture in college athletics.

Last year, as more than 1,500 Division I college football players entered the transfer portal, nobody would’ve been surprised if Dismuke had jumped into the mix.

A junior safety, Dismuke has started only one game as a Husker. But he’s still in the program in large part because his mother, Nicole Samuel, strongly encouraged him to “stick with the script.”


He’s played for two different head coaches, three different defensive coordinators and four different position coaches.

But he’s stayed with the script.


The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Dismuke was part of the Calabasas (California) High School crew that was all the rage at Nebraska for part of the Mike Riley era. But Dismuke, a four-star recruit in the class of 2016, is the only one left in Lincoln. Two Calabasas graduates in NU’s class of 2017 — Tristan Gebbia and Keyshawn Johnson Jr. — have moved on.

I heard on the radio that there are more players in the portal than available spots, with the 25 signee limitations. 

Crazy if true. Sorta like having more underclassmen declare for the draft than there are draft picks. 

Ehhh, the transfer thing won't die down because it's just a symptom of something that's always happened to a degree. 

Since you went to 85 scholarships, attrition was a natural outcome. Coaches want better players when they misevaluate or a guy doesn't develop. Kids get homesick or get tired of not playing. The differences historically were twofold, as I see it. First, kids had a less clear sense of where they could go. You couldn't just pull up all the rosters and dig through depth charts at a whim. And second, we didn't know about it as much. We didn't get excited about the kids as high school juniors and when they dropped off the roster, it came up as a note at the bottom of a newspaper story, not as a headline "Former four-star leaving."

Issues of the information age.  

The thing about more people in the portal than spots is also a natural outgrowth. People have been dropping to the FCS for eons. They in fact make that transfer easier in essence to incentivize it. That group just happens to also count for the portal. 

Lastly, the kid at Nebraska. I think that's great. But not because he stands against the trend. Because he made a choice he's confident in. As much as we focus on and bemoan transfers, there's plenty of program guys all over. Transferring is hard socially, you lose friends and have to reacclimate. I wouldn't push a guy to do it, but I wouldn't stigmatize it either. Though people don't quite have enough faith in randomness. (Can he grad transfer next year?)

Somewhere there was a super interesting blog from a former Texas center. He talked about explaining the perks of redshirting to a top-50 recruit they added who ended up a high draft pick. And top recruit said, "It sounds like you don't like playing football" in reaction, "I came here to play football." And the gap there mentally, on both sides, being able to enjoy being part of it vs the burning desire to play this game that defined your life always stuck with me.