Transfer Portal

[tolnabison]

I mean this basically forces us to bring in another CB in the portal. I would also bring in a safety.

Right now our only CB with experience is Price. They are high on Alexander, but he redshirted last season.


We have basically zero experience at safety, although I have heard the staff is really high on Ryan Jones and Reggie King. Sam Jung as been a good special teams player, but hasn't played much safety.

[EndZoneQB]

Losing 3-5 impact players a year will kill us.

I don't think Entz has been aggressive enough in the portal himself. As you said in another thread, adapt or die.

[tolnabison]

I don't think Entz has been aggressive enough in the portal himself. As you said in another thread, adapt or die.

Doesn't this force us to replace them? We have scholarships open, replace them with players that can come in and compete instantly.

[EC8CH]

Well at least these guys transferred after the season. Interesting way of forcing parity at lower divisions by depleting successful teams of their top players year after year.

[tolnabison]

What is the trickle down affect? FBS coaches or boosters talk to our players, get them to transfer. Does NDSU start doing the same? Find the best D2 players that have them transfer up? Or go to other FCS programs and talk to their best players?

I'm just saying that we know what goes on. We know players are being tampered with.

Andre Martin in 2012 transferred from UNI to NDSU, started at CB, won a title.

[Kevin]

I was going to say that i don't think our culture translates well to rosters full of transfers/fbs rejects (even though that would make lakes really happy)

but then i thought about it and i realized that some of what we've seen on the field is contradictory to our culture as well. so who knows?

the fact that kids would rather go play on a basement dwelling squad like USF than play for championships here should tell us everything we need to know about moving up to any FBS conference that will take us. writing is on the wall.

[bisonaudit]

What is tampering in the NCAA context?

[thunderingherd]

We better start playing the same "recruiting" game as everyone else.

[ndsubison1]

What is the trickle down affect? FBS coaches or boosters talk to our players, get them to transfer. Does NDSU start doing the same? Find the best D2 players that have them transfer up? Or go to other FCS programs and talk to their best players?

I'm just saying that we know what goes on. We know players are being tampered with.

Andre Martin in 2012 transferred from UNI to NDSU, started at CB, won a title.

Time to get some top players in D2-FCS to come our way. Guys familiar with us.

[abc123]

Well at least these guys transferred after the season. Interesting way of forcing parity at lower divisions by depleting successful teams of their top players year after year.

Transfer portal and NIL had nothing to do with forcing parity. It is just a secondary effect of giving the top schools autonomy to do what they want and everyone else wanting to hang on to their coattails and get whatever crumbs are allowed to fall.