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But eventually the covid super seniors will he gone, but unless the portal calms down, the problem will remain.

I just picked a random percentage. The point is that if an IC goes to a transfer, then that's a scholarship that's not available for an HS kid.

You don't get to replace players who transfer out. The limit is 25 IC's no matter what for any given year. If you use one on a transfer, that's one less HS offer.

130 FBS schools x 20% = 26. 26 x 5 = 130. There will be variations based on IC usage, but not accommodating transferring students will result in fewer HS offers. Now you can make an argument that the sudden surge of portal jumpers ending up going nowhere will result in less transfers down the...

I don't disagree that it has an easy solution, but if 20% of the FBS schools reserve 5 places for transfers, that's 130 high school players that won't get scholarships. It's kind of hard to claim to be helping student athletes when you're helping to prevent them from going to college.

There are also 2500 players in the portal. Why take a chance on a 3 star long snapper when you can pick up a 4 star with film of his college games already out there. The NCAA will need to figure out that situation pretty soon.