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Transfer portal won't disappear soon

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Guard Desi Sills, who has played in every Arkansas game the past three seasons, announced on social media Wednesday that he is leaving the program via the transfer portal. He will have two years of eligibility remaining. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Charlie Kaijo)

FAYETTEVILLE — Unlike leisure suits, hula hoops and the Macarena, peg the NCAA transfer portal as one fad that won’t entirely go away.

It’s just apt to fade as a fad.

To the left out in the cold chagrin of too many scholarship athletes who will pay the price overflowing the portal with more bodies than available scholarships, the free market system seems bound to eventually discourage those transferring on a whim.