The Smoking Musket · Dec 9, 2021
Transfers - What Is Going On?
On Monday, wide receiver Isaiah Esdale became the 26th player to enter his name into the NCAA Transfer Portal since the start of 2021. According to Chris Anderson and Mike Cassazza on their 247 Podcast, 24 of those players were on scholarship. This led me to ask the general question “What in the [world] is going on at West Virginia?”.
What Is The Portal?
Let’s start with the general - what exactly is the NCAA Transfer Portal. The “Portal” is nothing more than a database. The idea was that previously, coaches controlled the actions of students and students didn’t have as much power as they should. The process sought to give some of that power back to the student-athlete.