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College coaches need to stop complaining about the transfer portal and start adjusting

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If you’ve been following how college football coaches have assessed the NCAA’s so-called “transfer portal,” you’re likely to get the impression it is driving us to the end of college sports and eventually to the end of civilization as we know it.

Even for a group of notorious complainers every time a rule change makes their lives more difficult, The Portal has triggered an avalanche of angst unlike anything we’ve seen in recent memory.