What happens to Players who go to the Portal, but get no offers?

[OldAsDirtUte]

Are they left out in the cold?
How many teams leave the back door open for returns?

[AlohaUte]

A lot drop down levels, like go D2 or NAIA. I was talking to a baseball coach at a local D2 school, he said one thing that sucks for new high school graduate is there are so many fewer opportunities to get on a team in college because the transfer portal allows them to get players from D1 who are more ready now. I assume it’s the same for football.

[Jim Vanderhoof]

Will Snowden who trains and helps place high school talent in colleges said their offers were down 80%. Most of those will go to a juco for a year and then hope to get picked up by a D1. Nobody wants to develop a high school player as a freshman and watch them leave unless they are capable of playing right away. JUCOs will become farm teams and align with bigger programs for development.

[Stone]

I am dense, so please explain this. Wouldn’t there still be roughly the same number of players seeking roughly the same number of opportunities? I can understand that some lower level schools are getting people dropping down from higher level schools, and there are of course players at lower level schools getting spots at higher level schools.

But unless there is an influx of new players generally or a decrease in total opportunities, it would seem that there are still roughly the same number of total players and opportunities, it is just that they are shuffling around a lot more. I imagine I must be missing something in the equation if offers really are down 80%.

[jshame17]

Hopefully, very very cold.

They have a golden opportunity to get a massive head start in life and spit on it.

I don’t feel sorry for a single one of them.

[Tony (admin)]

They crawl back to the team and say they’re “all-in”?!?!?!

[Jim Vanderhoof]

“All in” until someone offers more $$ or they are “blessed” to have played for such a great school but the “lord”is guiding them to new experience. I might be “all in” not renewing my season tickets I’ve had since 1973 and “blessed”to not have to not have to go to anymore 8:30 games in November.

[UteBaron89]

I ditched my season tickets last year after 20 years and didn’t regret it at all.

[OldAsDirtUte]

The net effect seems to be that the top talent will play, but the next-most talented will bounce to another playing opportunity, instead of patiently being a backup.
Therefore the top talent is spread thin at the the top. you don’t have schools backlogging studs, as they will be Portalling, looking for opportunties.
Effectively, the top talent rises to the top, filling all the available slots in a fragile level. This vastly reduces playing opportunities for the rest.
So again, I wonder how many of these second-level ‘Portalees’ will find a spot, and who will be out in the cold?
Maybe at the bottom of the pyramid the non-top tier will be the losers. (P2 > P5 > G5 > JUCO > FCS etc.)

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