When the transfer portal closes, the real damage begins

Key Highlights

• If a player wants to enter the portal, they're free to do so.
• The other side of that equation is that player needs a dance partner. All too often players enter and don’t get picked up.
• In many cases, it's a career-ending move. Currently according to On3, there are still 3,204 players currently in the transfer portal who are not committed to a new school.
• That number was almost 100 less at the beginning of the day. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAt present, just within DI college football, there are only 1,821 players who are committed to new programs.
• That means only 36% of players who have entered the portal have found a new team to play for. On Thursday, college football analyst Josh Pate appeared on The Rich Eisen Show and shed some light on some of the issues with the transfer portal. Pate claims there are over 10,000 players were in the transfer portal when every level of college football is considered.