As many know, the transfer portal is set to be a huge part of Mel Tucker’s tenure at Michigan State. The new era of college football is centered around the use of the transfer portal. Tucker used the portal to flip a roster from a 2-5 season in his first year to an 11-2 season in year two, mainly in part to the additions through the transfer portal.
The transfer portal should be viewed as another form of recruiting, as a team will have two ‘recruiting classes’ per year, the traditional high school class and a transfer class.
Transfers do work both ways, while the team will add multiple players through the portal, losing players to the portal will also become a reality every season.
Take a look at how Michigan State’s 2022 transfer portal, both incoming and outgoing, looks like:
