Jon Joseph No. 1 Share Posted February 23, 2023 On3 as of today's date, February 23, 2023, has nine Pac-12 teams ranked in the top 50 Transfer Portal (Portal) team rankings. 1. Colorado 2. UCLA 3. USC 10. ASU 11. Oregon 13. Washington 27. Oregon State 36. Utah 50. CAL The Portal will re-open on May 1, 2023, through May 15, 2023, after spring practice concludes for all college football teams. We can expect that there will be many new Portal entries come May 1st. Many teams will encourage scholarship players currently on the roster to enter the Portal in order to not exceed the number of players a team is allowed to have on scholarship which is 85 players. This approach is especially ongoing under Coach Prime at Colorado and also at ASU under new head coach Dillingham. Also, we can anticipate a number of players including 4* and 5* recruits not on a given roster's post-spring practice 2-deep to be contacted by teams offering a better opportunity to play and also in certain cases a better NIL opportunity. This kind of contact is not allowed by the NCAA as it constitutes roster tampering but is happening across the country with 3rd parties and not a given team directly being the point of contact with a player and/or with a player's agent. And the NCAA appears to be powerless when it comes to policing roster tampering. Additionally, depending on the terms and conditions of the Pac-10 conferences' new media deal many players may be encouraged via tampering to transfer if all or a good deal of game inventory will be broadcast only via streaming. To date, the conference is doing very well using the Portal to help with roster management but of course, two of the teams in the top 10 will soon be off to the B1G. Should UCLA and USC continue their success in the Portal post-2023 they will be at the top of or among the top B1G teams using the Portal. Oregon is ranked 13. as noted above indicating that Dan Lanning is not only doing a terrific job with recruiting but also using Portal to fill positions of need. I expect that post-spring practice if not before that Oregon will continue to actively and successfully work the Portal 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven A Moderator No. 2 Share Posted February 23, 2023 On 2/23/2023 at 9:36 AM, Jon Joseph said: And the NCAA appears to be powerless PERIOD, END OF STORY!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckoflife No. 3 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) Oregon easily has the best recruiting among PAC schools for players coming out of high school. Even if we don't rank at the top of transfer rankings, we'd still rank highest in overall talent. Edited February 23, 2023 by duckoflife 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Hilarius Moderator No. 4 Share Posted February 25, 2023 The rankings are likely affected by the total number of transfers, not just the overall skill of the players. So Ducks very well could have better players but fewer of them bc our HS class is better. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjenn99 No. 5 Share Posted February 25, 2023 At this point is Wilcox even trying at Cal? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanducky No. 6 Share Posted February 25, 2023 On 2/24/2023 at 8:23 PM, chrisjenn99 said: At this point is Wilcox even trying at Cal? I'm so glad he's not not trying at Oregon. 1 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Author No. 7 Share Posted February 25, 2023 On 2/24/2023 at 8:20 PM, Dr Hilarius said: The rankings are likely affected by the total number of transfers, not just the overall skill of the players. So Ducks very well could have better players but fewer of them bc our HS class is better. Yes, just like the number of signees affects recruiting rankings. So being #1 in the portal could simply indicate a number of marginal players on the current roster and an effort to 'clean house?' Certainly the case with both CU and ASU. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
