Stewart himself posted on X "transfer portal heating up". To me that just seems like a lonely Bo Nickal who needs some spotlight like a houseplant needs a window sill occasionally. If he was really into transferring he wouldnt be throwing out lame platitudes about the portal...unless he's an idiot.
Bruce should have more votes. This is too simplistic, but either your a Smith guy, or you're a volume guy and its Baumgartner. Again I respect and see argument within that thinking, but there are a lot of bias's at work against Bruce.
its a lot harder to be wrong when you're dealing in tiers, one reason pyles takes so long to say anything is that he's afraid of saying anything anything he'll be proven wrong about later.
The way you put it does make me think twice. I'd really have to get in the weeds to respond in any meaningful way, but I guess my response would probably be that athletes should have to confirm or relinquish their scholarship $ before entering the portal.
But to undermine my argument again, when these athletes under perform the coaches have all sorts of ways of just taking their money back. Hard to argue with the portal when the opposite behavior is never mentioned and absolutely common place.
whether or not they lose a whole year of eligibility is enormous in this scenario. These schools had ways of paying these guys before, but who wants to pay for a guy you won't see in the lineup for 18 months. The portal is way worse than NIL