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Lane Kiffin has warning about transfer portal
Lane Kiffin has warning about transfer portal
The landscape of college football has changed dramatically with the new rules for transfers and athletes now able to profit off their name, image and likeness. While Lane Kiffin has supported those changes, the Ole Miss coach believes they could lead to some “unintended consequences.”
Kiffin spoke about the NCAA’s NIL and transfer rules during an appearance on “The Dan Patrick Show” this week. He said college football is essentially a professional sport now, and he warned that the transfer rules are going to lead to less high school players having opportunities to earn scholarships.
“I don’t think it’s going to be as great as everybody thinks and you’re going to have a ton of kids just like we have had, like, hundreds and hundreds of kids that go in with nowhere to go, because the numbers don’t work right,” Kiffin said, as transcribed by David Johnson of 247Sports. “When you lose these kids, they don’t give you new spots. You still only have 25 spots, so a school may only have one or two spots to take people, but all of these kids are leaving thinking they can go somewhere. And then when you take them…let’s say somebody took 10…now it’s only 15 guys out of high school you can take. That’s 10 less high school players getting scholarships in one program. I think it’s going to have some unintended consequences here.”
Kiffin makes a good point, and that is something the NCAA may have to look into going forward. Schools don’t get an additional scholarship after losing a player via the transfer portal. What that means is that there are scenarios where the same players are essentially occupying more scholarships, which leaves less for incoming high school players.
Nick Saban also issued a warning about the new transfer rules earlier this year, though his program likely stands to benefit from them.
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SOURCE: DelVecchio, Steve. "Lane Kiffin has warning about transfer portal." Bobby Brown Sports, 5 August 2021,
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Re: Lane Kiffin has warning about transfer portal
100% correct. I know all these player want to play, but getting a degree and having your school paid for should be your #1 goal. It blows my mind to see a kid that is at like, New Mexico St and is running 3rd team after 2-3 years. He enters the portal. WHY. You have proven you can't play at the worst or one of the worst programs in the country. You are not going pro. No other D1 school is going to look at you and go, Great, we need that guy. You may find a place at a 1-AA or below school, but they dont offer full scholarships.
New Mexico St by then is like great, we don't have to still pay for this scholarship for a guy who cant make it into our 2 deep.
So then the player has 2 options, pay his own way to finish somewhere or go get a job. Hundreds of players are facing that decision now. Even if you don't play much, if you stay at that school, they still honor that scholarship and in most cases if you decide you don't want to play anymore, those schools find a way to keep you on scholarship until you graduate. Medical, etc
Add the fact that it is hurting HS kids. Look at Texas State's 2021 class.. They signed 24 players, 19 transfers from other colleges, 2 JUCO signees and TWO HS kids. YEP, TWO