The Portal is officially CLOSED
...and it closes for grad transfers today.
- Anyone in the portal can sign with a team whenever. So anyone in the portal now is still available to Michigan. I do not believe there were any late last-minute surprises.
- The NCAA changed it's rule and grad transfers have to he in the portal today or they will lose their eligibility for the fall. I am unsure if a grad transfer can enter tomorrow (undergrads can't - their window closed at 11:59pm last night) and be eligible next spring for their new university...that said, no one would do that unless they are currently injured and out for the season and plan to sleep next year.
The Portal is never, ever, "closed"
Don’t need no hateration, hollaration in this dancery…
Let us rejoice that any portal entry from here on out would sacrifice eligibility in the fall. So effectively closing the portal for players that would be expected contributors this fall.
assume the Portal is officially CLOSED for basketball and foozball?
The portal never technically closes. However, jumping in the portal now would mean: A) That you would lose your eligibility at your current school. And, B) That you wouldn't be eligible for next season at your next school. So, the portal is effectively closed.
Football portal for underclassmen closed at 11:59:59 p.m. last night. Portal for basketball and football grads closes tonight at 11:59:59 p.m.
Expect to hear names entered into the portal through Friday, though, as schools have 48 hours to comply with portal requests.
That last sentence is an important caveat.
Yep, it's conceivable someone will email their school's compliance department late tonight with a request to be entered in the portal and the school might not get around to entering it into the database until late Friday.
This portal business reminds me of the movie Dark City.
Sorely underrated movie. It's truly a hidden gem.
oft quoted by me and my bandmates while tuning up
"you think a simple human can tune?"
Can we laugh at Michigan State now?
Anytime is a good time to laugh at your little brother. When little brother only has 72 of 85 football scholarship spots filled (assuming no return to sender portal athletes), you're absolutely laughing at him and not with him.
I saw that MSU lost nearly 20 players to the portal. I didn't even realize that it was that bad.
It’s not bad… it’s good, very very good.
I read today they lost 12 in the last week.
MSU hires something other than human garbage to coach their program for the first time in at least a generation and twenty players jump ship.
Everyone wants to make that a statement of where MSU is, but I think it's a horrifying revelation of what it was. I mean, we have tons of evidence otherwise, but this also basically confirms the Dantonio Express running between Spartan Stadium and the local correctional facility was hardly a joke.
Preach child of dragons! Khary "the Lloyd Carr Tunnel made me do it" Crump has entered the transfer portal. I can't think of a better poster child for the Spartan bad apple purge than Gemon Green's assailant.
paging MGrow
Yes, have at it.
Whew. 😅
Yes, have at it. Glad my worries were unfounded.
We officially have one bad-ass defense ready to roll.
Whew. 😅
Instead of laughing, I think little brother deserves what my second-grade teacher did when we'd misbehave. She'd cross her arms, fix us with a withering expression of pure disgust, shake her head and mutter "Mm Mm Mm." As if she couldn't believe that any child could be so stupid, so backward, and so inept.
Woman could say more with three sounds than lawyers could say in a closing argument.
"The Portal is officially CLOSED" except not fully.
So we are aware but not fully aware of who is in the portal?
This, like vestigial tails or those really long roots on our canine teeth, is one of the last remnants of the NCAA's control over athletes. I can't wait for this to go to court and get bounced out of the continuum. The NCAA was birthed in exploitation and nurtured by greed. It's stain needs to be wiped from the earth.
Yeah. Sure. It may be technically closed, but I doubt its ever really going to be closed again.
As Lionel Hutz would say:
"There's, the truth........and, THE TRUTH!!"
Before there was Saul Goodman, there was Lionel Hutz.
It wouldn't shock me in the slightest to learn that Saul Goodman was inspired, at least partially, off Lionel Hutz. Especially considering Bob Odenkirk's brother is a writer/producer for The Simpsons.
Technically, before there was Saul Goodman there was Jimmy McGill.
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.
Where does Bob Loblaw fit in this continuum?
I hope we start to hear more about portal activity. There are a lot of needs for this team. At least we got a kicker so far I guess.
Portal officially CLOSED! Next window opens TOMORROW!
That's basically what it feels like.
Keep in mind that while the basketball portal closes tonight, what that means is that you have until midnight to inform your current school that you will be entering the portal. . So there will be names you hear about in the next couple of days as they're processed. There is no restriction on joining your new team at any given time, so people will still be signing up with their next team for the next few weeks. The date to exit the draft is at the end of the month, so that will probably be when most players make their final selections.
Last thing I remember
I was running for the portal
Had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax", said the bag man
"We are programmed to receive"
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
I really hope the staff is in contact with Elijiah Badger. Class of 2020 WR out of ASU. Caught 65 and 70 passes the past two years. 6’2.
Seems like someone you would want to offer a nice size cheeseburger to.
While he could probably insert himself right into the starting lineup almost immediately, Michigan has a few things going against it.
- Our QB situation looks extremely shaky right now. We have no idea who's going to be throwing the ball next year, and if that QB is going to be able to reliably throw the ball at all.
- We are a very, very run-oriented team until proven otherwise. I don't doubt that Sherrone will start forming his own identity, unique from Harbaugh's, in the coming years. But for now, the personnel and make-up of this team is designed specifically to run the ball.
Does a guy who's catching 70 passes a year want any part of that? Maybe, but I'd also say it depends greatly on who else is offering him, because I'm not sure how much he's going to get the ball in his hands next year even if Sherrone wants to throw the ball.
All good points. Looks like he contemplated going to the draft. Probably has his pick of air-raid system to hood his numbers for the ‘25 draft
Michigan just had their two starting receivers drafted. I think that is a good reason why a WR would want to go to Michigan.
Actually, if you want to get technical, the last 6 starting WRs who finished their careers at Michigan were all drafted: DPJ, Nico, Bell, CJ, Roman, and Mikey (albeit not as a WR).
So now it is pre-tampering season? I lose track.
Yes. Tampering season officially opens after Memorial Day.
I just saw that Coleman Hawkins from Illinois entered the portal yesterday. That is a bit surprising.
I don't know if any transfer is surprising for Illinois basketball. They seem to just portal out and portal in a fresh team yearly -- and without having a coaching change.
They make really good decisions, too.
Fire Warde
or something
Like a sale at a furniture store. Ends today when we close at 6. Next one starts when we open tomorrow at 9.
Same with Fanatics / Fansedge.
I can’t believe we’re going into the country’s hardest schedule with no even remotely proven QBs. Failure to land one is an epic and needless gamble.