When Deion Sanders moved to coaching the University of Colorado, he touched off a massive amount of player movement, most prominently out from last year’s football team into what is now called the transfer portal.
Now I am all for Name and Likeness deals and college players getting paid (and maybe coaches not getting paid more than 10 college professors) but this wholesale switching from college team to college team just seems even further from the collegiate ideal than before.
Why not just have a football minor league with academies for younger players? That way players can learn about agents and handling money and life after sports.
But I digress from the topic at hand. I think that a portal can be good but it does need to have some guardrails. A coach can’t push someone into a portal and neither should a player move into it just because he was passed over for a starting position.
I thought of this in connection with beer because brewers leave breweries to work at a different brewery or start their own. I saw Kevin Davey who was at Wayfinder who now is under the Heater Allen umbrella. Iam McCall from Riip Beer in the South, South Bay is going on to his own place. They are using the brewer portal to start freah.