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How transfer portal has altered college football: 'Spring used to be a blood bath'
Transfer portal impacts spring practices across college football as roster turnover, evaluations change course of programs across Texas. It even forced the Houston Cougars to cancel their spring game.
The transfer portals impact is leaking into spring practice decisions, according to coaches across the Lone Star State.
Shrinking scholarship numbers in the spring are the main reason why teams are forced to adjust. The normal attrition of graduation is exaggerated by an exodus of players into the portal after the season. Even with an influx of new transfers and early enrollees, most teams don’t have enough bodies in the spring to conduct old-school spring practices, and even games.
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