Kid on team entered the portal not really understanding the implications. They tried hard to keep him out of the portal because they expected him to play 30% of the time as an OL the next year. He went in anyway. They moved on.
He said when you enter the portal you are dead to the current coaching staff. They have to move on and find a replacement. Kid started having second thoughts. He truly didn't believe the team was moving on. He asked to come back. They told him they had filled his slot with someone else (not sure if recruit or JC transfer). They had told him they were moving on if entered but it seems he didn't believe them.
College athletes are adults with a particular talent and only a 4-6 year window in which to use it. I don't blame any player who explores whether his current school is the best
place for him. It's fine for coaches to interview for other jobs and either take them or extort a few million more out of their employers. That's apparently not bad for the game, but if a player refuses to treat his head coach like a feudal lord, the system can't possibly survive. (To add to the hypocrisy, these same coaches will accept transfers who will help their programs, but the players who leave their programs have deficient character).
Is it a hassle for coaches? Yes. That's what the money's for, assholes.
Athletic directors with balls can fix this by telling their coaches that while they don't have to hold a scholarship for players in the portal, they aren't allowed to cut them simply for considering a transfer.
whatever leverage he or she has to advance his career.
Life has risks. It is what it is.
I couldn't care less about how much more "complicated" things have become for college football coaches. The average Power 5 coach now makes more than $3.5 million per year...that's more than enough money to offset the mental anguish that comes from trying to manage a team from year to year.
I like Dabo Swinney, but he's a perfect example of the hypocrisy contaminating the coaching ranks these days. First, his stance on players getting paid (he's not a fan):
"But as far as paying players, professionalizing college athletics, that's where you lose me. I’ll go do something else, because there's enough entitlement in this world as it is."
Next, his stance on the transfer portal (also not a fan):
"We want a society with no consequences. OK, everybody says this coach makes a lot of money or that coach makes a lot of money," Swinney said via ESPN.com. "Somebody’s getting paid a lot of money, too. There’s consequences. There’s buyouts. There should be consequences. You deal with young people, sometimes young people need to learn how to hang in there a little bit."
And, finally, this:
"Clemson announced Friday that it has agreed to a 10-year, $93 million contract extension with coach Dabo Swinney that will keep him with the Tigers through the 2028 season. The new deal will pay him $8.25 million in 2019, and increase incrementally up to $10 million in 2027 and 2028. It is the richest coaching contract in college football history."
Give me a freaking break...
A glorified gym teacher who will die with a nine figure net worth would hate it if his sport became professionalized.
Oh, Roger. Miss you so much.
You're right that one of the benefits was supposed to be eliminating the need for the secret-service aspect of the whole thing. But making it public goes both ways -- once your current coach knows you're wavering, it hurts the trust even if a preliminary investigation of options yields nothing of value.
The P5 rule states that coaches can't take scholarships away for poor athletic performance. However, scholarships can still be taken away for a variety of other reasons, and some of them are probably pretty easy to make up.
See the link below for more details.