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Syracuse football: is it really the transfer portal?

After the blowout loss to North Carolina, Syracuse Orange Head Coach Dino Babers can’t be feeling good. You can understand his frustration, but as he’s been prone to do, Dino seems to be looking to explain away the Syracuse troubles by talking about NIL.

Dino Babers when I asked about SU depth at midseason. “it’s the same old thing. Depth is gone. Depth is in the transfer portal. You know how many guys we lost, you know what schools they play at. Schools like us, we’re not going to have a lot of depth because it gets bought away”

— Brent Axe (@BrentAxeMedia) October 9, 2023

He’s not the only P5 Head Coach who did that yesterday, but let’s take a second and deconstruct that.