It’s a new era of college football. As redshirt rules have relaxed and the transfer portal’s utilization has skyrocketed in recent years, coaching staffs now are tasked with re-recruiting their entire roster at all times.
And for all 130, err, 131 FBS teams (welcome to the big leagues, James Madison!), there is one constant theme — transfer portal giveth, transfer portal taketh. While the portal scattered a handful of the MAC’s talent to other programs across the country, all 12 MAC teams received a nice haul in return. Let’s zone in on one transfer for each team as football season becomes less than a quarter of a year away:
Akron Zips: Shocky Jacques-Louis
WR from Pitt
There are plenty of challenges Joe Moorhead faces in his first season as Akron’s head coach, but the main one involves transforming an offense which has been dormant for quite some time.