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We’re quickly approaching the opening of the 2025 NCAA Tournament, the most exciting week in college sports, but that doesn’t mean college football is on the backburner. Most schools have started spring drills as they introduce new players, a few superstar transfers and attempt to make sense of their depth charts before the transfer portal opens again in April.
We already have coaches openly campaigning for future players in the portal while also facing the reality of cutting players to meet new 105-man roster guidelines tied to the House v. NCAA settlement.
What does that mean for the upcoming portal cycle? It might not be as crazy as past years, but plenty of fringe players — scholarship-worthy walk-ons and backups — will enter the portal in April looking for new homes that may no longer exist because of roster limits. Coaches have been dealing with this new reality behind the scenes since January, but now that the spring semester has hit the midpoint, decisions need to be made as coaches cut 20-plus players from their locker rooms this summer.
The madness never ends for college football coaches.
Meanwhile, March Madness is in full swing, whetting our whistles and feeding our appetites for controversy. West Virginia was inexplicably left out of the Big Dance in favor of North Carolina, which was only 1-12 in Quad 1 games. (Who…
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Author : Brandon Marcello
Publish date : 2025-03-18 13:54:00
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