(03-29-2021 02:50 PM)OhioBoilermaker Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 02:29 PM)NMSUPistolPete Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 02:13 PM)OhioBoilermaker Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 01:40 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(03-29-2021 12:41 PM)NMSUPistolPete Wrote:  Per Verbal Commits, Abilene Christian's Clay Gayman (6'6, 210, JR) has entered the transfer portal.

Any sense of why some of these guys are leaving? I thought guys usually transferred because they didn't get playing time or are stuck in hopeless programs.

Lots of the transfers from the Southland schools are neither. I don't get it.

I know Lamar's coach is leaving, but besides that...

Mario mentioned that the blanket additional year of eligibility has put the transfer market in a tizzy. Schools have the same scholarship maximum, but extra players, which I think has led to some jockeying.

That's backwards thinking. If you have a scholarship in hand at your present school, why would you put name out on the open market when you know there are a finite number of scholarships available and many more players jockeying for them?

Because schools may not be prepared to honor a scholarship for an additional year at the expense of offering a promising recruit, which leads to a glut of experience players on the transfer market, which leads to schools considering signing an experienced pick over their current options, which leads to their current options getting worried about playing time and looking elsewhere. And so the cycle continues. I may be wrong, I’m no expert on the transfer market’s dynamics.

The current school gets the usual 13 scholarship and "unlimited" scholarships over that to account for current seniors. Of course, that supposes the school wants the player back and the school can afford to exceed 13 scholarships. If a current senior transfers, then they eat up one of the existing 13 scholarships at the new school.