The Transfer Portal Top 100 w/ Max Olson
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Andy and The Athletic's Max Olson jump into the transfer portal discourse like they're at Apertuer Science, Inc. (#thecakeisalie)! The guys outline the criteria used to rank the transfer portal stakeholders and highlight the Tennessee-to-Oklahoma move. Which SEC school's offense projects to take a huge leap forward in 2021 because of the portal? Which transfer quarterback will have the most impact next season? The duo provides a comprehensive look at some top-100 footballers to deduce why these athletes moved on from their former programs, and project how they'll perform at their new homes. Also, who won the transfer portal sweepstakes?
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| 0:44.7 | We're diving headfirst into the transfer portal. |
| 0:49.8 | Max Olson, our guest, Max also writes for the athletic. |
| 0:53.5 | Max and our buddy Bruce Feldman put together |
| 0:56.1 | the transfer portal top 100. This is an extension of what we had been doing, the transfer portal |
| 1:01.7 | top 50. That's right. The portal is so chock full of talent that we've had to make it a top 100. |
| 1:07.7 | Max, how is it down there in the portal? Is the water warm? Is it creepy? Is it terrifying? Does it |
| 1:14.9 | feel like, you know, you've been sucked into a black hole? Yeah, all of like the green portal |
| 1:22.0 | goo that you get from going through it. I've shaken most of that off. You know, waiting through this, like, yeah, we got it to |
| 1:28.8 | 100. Probably could get it to 200. I mean, that's just how it is these days, Andy. Like, it used to be, |
| 1:34.2 | oh, here's the five to 10 grad transfer quarterback so you need to know. It's, I mean, you know, |
| 1:40.5 | it was not hard to do 50. It was very easy to do 100. Like just the list of players that, you know, that had a lot of offers that are going to make a big impact this year that were once big time recruits. Like it's just, it's just nuts where we're at in this sport. And, you know, I'm all about it. I'm not, you know, coaches can gripe about it. But for you and me, I think it's pretty great. Well, that's the thing. We can look at it like it's the end of the world, or we can look at it for what it is. I mean, this is free agency in college football. This is transactions. People love transactions. You've proven that over and over with how you consume your NBA content and how you consume |
| 2:18.3 | your NFL content. |
| 2:19.8 | We know you like transactions. |
| 2:21.5 | We know how you feel about the coaching carousel, which is college football's version of |
| 2:26.0 | transactions. |
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