You are right about that. And lest my previous posts be misunderstood, I am not one of those who thinks the portal or NIL are bad things, they just make the game different from what we have been accustomed to for decades, and they have brought some breathtaking (and as some will argue, long overdue) changes to the college football game. As regards the portal, I agree with you that it may allow a kid who might sit on the bench to see if there are greener pastures somewhere else. And that is not necessarily a bad thing, though I suppose that an unintended consequence is that it may leave the school that a player transfers from with an unplanned hole in its roster. ND is seeing that with the WR position, and given our historical reluctance to accept non-graduate transfers, it has put us in a little bit of a bind, though some of those wounds are self-inflicted. But ND will live to fight another day.
