The thing I find most worrisome about this is the timing of it all. The season ended basically in November. These athletes have had six to seven months to jump into the portal and if they did back then I would imagine their options would have been greater.

Are these kids smart enough to presume that for schools like NIU the schedule for the upcoming season will not be complete. Will there not be games against Iowa and Maryland? No big stage for them to play on? Do they know something......???

I would not be so troubled if these were spread out, done back in January, or if we didn’t live in a world of uncertainty right now—-not just in sports.

The fact that we get four of them this week, in May, makes me wonder what is going on. These are all upperclassmen who may be just looking to play......