Going into his third season as Ohio State’s head coach, Ryan Day had lost only 13 total scholarship players to the transfer portal.
Since the start of the 2021 season, Ohio State has had 15 scholarship players enter the portal in just eight months.
That attrition isn’t necessarily a surprise, nor does it need to be seen as anything more than the changing nature of college football. Before last year, players who transferred from one school to another had to receive a waiver from the NCAA (or be a graduate transfer) in order to play immediately. Even last year, athletes didn’t know until mid-April that the NCAA would expand the one-time transfer exception to all sports, giving them less time to decide whether or not they should transfer before the 2021 season.