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[BSLMikeLowe]

DL Darrell Jackson, Jr. has entered the transfer portal. Played in every game as a freshman last season. I had projected him to be the second-string 3-technique behind Mosiah Nasili-Kite.

Jackson is taking his talents to The U.

[JeremyStrain]

It's a mess right now. Like if every pro league had a max of one year contracts.

[BSLZackKiesel]

DL Andre Porter has entered the transfer portal.

[BSLZackKiesel]

DB Kenny Bennett has entered the transfer portal.

[BaltBird 24]

Lol. The transfer portal has turned college sports into a joke.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Lol. The transfer portal has turned college sports into a joke.

 

Do you like anything?  lol 

[BSLZackKiesel]

DB Lavonte Gater has entered the transfer portal. He was one of the players who really stood out in yesterday's Red-White Spring Game.

[BSLZackKiesel]

OL Liridon Mujezinovic has entered the transfer portal, just a few months after joining the program.

[Mackus]

Johnny Holliday would nail it every time but not having to try to pronounce that name has to be a small relief for the rest of the radio crew.

[BSLChrisStoner]

DB Lavonte Gater has entered the transfer portal. He was one of the players who really stood out in yesterday's Red-White Spring Game.

How do you spend time playing Spring ball, play yesterday, and transfer the following day? What is that?  That's ridiculous.

[BSLChrisStoner]

And where are the additions?  

[BSLMikeLowe]

Does Locksley realize he’s allowed to take players from the portal too? Gotta think they’re up to at least 5 open scholarships now.

[BSLMikeLowe]

DB Lavonte Gater has entered the transfer portal. He was one of the players who really stood out in yesterday's Red-White Spring Game.

It was his audition for an NIL school.

[Mike B]

And where are the additions?  

That was my question too.   

The transfer portal is not good for teams like Maryland football.  Are the bigger, better programs identifying their needs and picking off kids from mediocre programs like Maryland to fill therm.

[makoman]

It was his audition for an NIL school.

Is this gonna be like the Orioles and international, where Maryland finally gets it together on NIL in like 2034?

[BSLZackKiesel]

The majority of the players who’ve entered the transfer portal since spring practices began haven’t signed elsewhere yet. We should see things start to pick up again in the next month or two as spring semesters end across the country.

I should also mention that Jackson was the only Maryland player to enter the portal recently who I’d projected as being in the two-deep when the season began. Gater is the only additional one to have been projected in the three-deep.

[BSLMikeLowe]

That was my question too.   

The transfer portal is not good for teams like Maryland football.  Are the bigger, better programs identifying their needs and picking off kids from mediocre programs like Maryland to fill therm.

 

Most of the players that left MD this offseason ended up going down to either G5 or FCS, or made a lateral move. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head that moved up were Robinson (PSU) and Jackson (Miami). I guess you could put Darryl Jones in that category too (NC State). And quite a few still haven't found their landing spot, though sometimes these things are slow to update.

 

I think whether the portal is good or bad for any school mostly depends on the willingness of the head coach to utilize it. Dabo Swinney pretty much refuses to take players from the portal, but he can afford to do that because he signs Top 10 HS classes every year.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Is this gonna be like the Orioles and international, where Maryland finally gets it together on NIL in like 2034?

 

They definitely are behind the bulk of Power 5 schools right now, that's for sure. For what it's worth, Mike Locksley has made a couple of veiled pleas to the fan base to get involved, as I'm sure a couple of his recent losses are at least in part due to the lack of NIL opportunities. Damon Evans, on the other hand, just seems to want to throw his hands up and act like he doesn't know what to do about it.

[Pedro Cerrano]

How do you spend time playing Spring ball, play yesterday, and transfer the following day? What is that? That's ridiculous.

Had the same thought.

[BSLMikeLowe]

CB Devyn King has entered the portal.

 

According to Ahmed Ghafir, with the addition of King MD currently has 7 available scholarships. I know they usually like to set a couple aside headed into fall camp to give out to walk-ons, but they need to fill some of those holes before then.

 

Today is the deadline to get your name in the portal and still be eligible to play in any fall sport at a new school, hence the big flurry of activity.