This article today was extremely timely then. A sizable portion of these kids seemingly think they are all worthy of going to a Power 5 / elite G5 on a scholarship, but very few of them are making it.
Here's the transfer portal for Rice:
Aaron Cephus: no new school yet
Hunter Jones: Cal Poly (would assume he is on an FCS partial scholarship)
Uzoma Osuji: Boise State (assume he is on scholarship)
Anthony Ekpe: Ball State (assume he is on scholarship)
Hunter Henry: Kansas State (assume he is walking on?)
D'Angelo Ellis: no new school yet
Josh Landrum: no new school yet
Dasharm Newsome: no new school yet
Zach Hoban: walk-on at Virginia Tech
https://theathletic.com/1856135/2020/06/...nter-rule/
"This (players ending up walking on after entering the transfer portal) is becoming more common in college football, as more players seek a fresh start in the transfer portal at a time when few teams actually have scholarships to offer them. Scholarship FBS players are going into the portal and discovering they may have to pay their own way in order to go where they think they belong.
According to the NCAA portal database, 202 scholarship FBS players have entered the transfer portal this offseason and enrolled at their new homes. Nearly half of them (98) ended up going down to the FCS level or lower. Of the 104 scholarship transfers who enrolled at FBS programs this offseason, more than 20 percent (23) joined their new teams as walk-ons.
But those are really just the spring enrollees. Many more transfers are being finalized right now as June begins and schools bring their football teams back to campus for voluntary workouts. The next wave of signees who enroll in summer classes is sure to include more players who’ve lost their scholarships by transferring."
"This is going on at Power 5 and Group of 5 schools all over the country. Why does it happen? These programs are permitted to sign just 25 “initial counters” (scholarship players) in one recruiting cycle, even if they have room for more within their 85-man scholarship limit. As we’ve written before, this means most schools have the ability to only sign a couple of scholarship transfer players in the offseason. And because good players enter the portal at random times, these recruiters have to be careful how they spend and save their scholarships.
The supply continues to seriously outweigh the demand. As of Thursday morning, there were still 701 scholarship FBS players listed as “active” in the portal database. To be clear, this doesn’t mean they’re all stuck in the portal. A number of them are still listed as active because they’ve made verbal commitments to their new schools but have yet to enroll. Now is the time when those players should be signing up for classes and joining their new programs, so we should have a better sense of how many found new homes soon.
But when you count the 456 walk-ons still active in the portal, that’s more than 1,150 active FBS players still in the portal at the start of June. Not many of them will luck out and land a scholarship at an FBS school."
