Big 12's Bowlsby Transfer Portal a 'Colossal Mistake'

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The so-called transfer portal, the name applied to the pool of collegiate student-athletes who’ve voiced an interest in transferring from their current schools, has been a source of conversation and consternation in the college athletics community — and yesterday at the NACDA conference a number of college commissioners had the opportunity to address the issue.

A panel featuring the commissioners of the ACC, Big 12 and SEC spoke about the transfer portal, along with a number of other issues facing college athletics. Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, however, is the one who grabbed headlines for saying that the portal — which sets up different guidelines depending on the different sports — was a “colossal mistake.”

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