Let me start here: I have no interest in hashing out the crying out about players leaving their schools via the transfer portal. It is disappointing for some fans, and I wouldn’t describe it as ideal that lower-level programs in the Group of Five and the Power Five have their best talent poached (almost certainly illegally) by bigger fish.
Still, there is nothing to be done about it. Players have the right to freedom of movement to improve their situation, which is worth some fans’ sadness; it …