I understand Ivey getting D1 offers as a transfer. He’s an NFL body who has some production. I just can’t wrap my head around why any major factory type program would wanna throw any significant NIL money at him. Why him? Do y’all think he starts if we have a healthy Keion White last year? Who knows.
Having said that, I wish we still had him, but I think we’ll be ok in that department.
Keion White 6’4 267
Jordan Domineck 6’3 235
Kevin Harris 6’4 235
Kyle Kennard 6’5 235
Josh Robinson 6’4 254
Sylvain Yondjouen 6’4 245
It's not Ole Miss that would be throwing any money at him. It would be fans of Ole Miss who have created an NIL.
They have to operate independently from the school. Schools are not allowed to pay players (or have NIL's)- private individuals now are.
Ivey also reportedly has an offer from Miami as well.
My take on the portal is to look at where they are transferring from and to and whether they contributed where they were and in what capacity. Are they transferring up, down or laterally.
Gibbs clearly was a transfer up. Ivey is looking like a transfer up (with schools like Ole Miss, Oregon and Miami involved).
So those are players that schools at the top of the food chain see as guys they want. Those are the ones you want to limit the losses.
Now GT has alot of guys coming from better programs - Quick, Tchio, Harvey Gee. What you have to wonder a little is whether they will become big contributors for you or not. The best ones that transfer out of the upper echelon schools tend to transfer to other upper echolon schools. When you see guys going from OK to USC, or GA and LSU to AL etc. Those are the kids that the best programs in the country want to get into their program. Those are more highly regarded and expected to contribute more than players who transfer from a higher school to a lower school.
I'd consider Hall and Benson to be lateral transfers and Gibson is a transfer up.
All 4 of those kids from the power schools could end up being major contributors at GT, or none of the 4 might, we just have to wait and see. Harvey and Gee are two young guys so you can't really say anything about them either way, other than when they transferred out they didn't go to another high level school, they went to a lower level school. That could be a benefit to GT or not. Quick and Tchio have had more time at their schools and simply didn't crack the lineup so the hope is coming to a lower level school they can play more.
Right now I would say that GT is probably not much better or much worse based on what has transpired in the portal. Now if some of these young men who come to GT end up being productive starters than GT may ultimately end up ahead, but if they don't then GT likely ends up with a net loss.