During a recent interview on SiriusXM Radio, Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione sounded off on the changes in college football in the transfer portal and NIL era.
“I hate to be a ‘I told you so’ kind of person but this is what we tried to fight against, this is ridiculous to be candid,” he said. “Everybody wants to go back to what they thought it was going to be but the combination of now the transfer portal and name, image and likeness and a number of other changes hitting at one time, people are leveraging one against the other and I’ve talked to coaches and they feel trapped in a way.
Maybe not the right word but they’re sitting there trying to re-shape a roster and you’re working on prospects of athletes that are coming out of high school in a traditional way, players on your team that have now entered the transfer portal so you have to fill spots you didn’t expect, and then you fill them with a high school athlete or transfer portal individual and when you bring them into the program, somebody on the team gets mad because of the person you brought in, so they go to the transfer portal.
