[Austroturf]

what's the "best site" to monitor transfer portal activity?

I've been following

https://247sports.com/Season/2023-Footba...ferPortal/

is there a better site?

I'm also using this one.  Haven't found a better one yet.

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The NFL departures of guys like Mills, Sarell, Dalman, Parkinson, and Fehoko is what makes most clear Stanford players no longer have loyalty or sense of team. Those aren't departures other programs see. A healthy program might have lost two of those guys.

or they thought that they would not get much better/improve their draft position by staying, contributing factors to that are likely the coaching staff and the prospects for the team.  Hopefully the next coaching staff has a positive impact on those factors.

Agree.  Take a guy like Parkinson, who was the #1 rated tight end coming out of high school, probably had visions of himself being drafted in the first or second round.  I wonder if he was thinking that he wants to go to the NFL ASAP (back in 2019) while he was still draftable in the 4th round than continue to flounder at Stanford and risk falling to UDFA.

BC

I think you guys are talking past each other a little bit.

Matt's definition of "a healthy program" is exactly a program where a kid will not "continue to flounder" (and thus bolt at first opportunity).

"Loyalty and sense of team" are increased when said team is winning and successfully developing its players.

I agree with this. If the program is healthy and winning, players will want to stick around (assuming they are getting the playing time they expect, which should be the case for the best players).  When excellent players are transferring out or leaving early with eligibility on the table, it's not really lack of loyalty but rather lack of belief in the program.  

Austin Jones is the primary example: he bolted to USC because he clearly did not believe in the Stanford football program.  Lack of loyalty?  Perhaps.  But if he had seen his path at Stanford track previous RB careers (Gerhart, Taylor, Gaffney, McCaffrey, Love), he would not have left.  Running futilely behind a dysfunctional O-line was what he wanted to avoid by becoming a Trojan.  So far, it has worked out pretty well for him.  In 2022, he wasn't even RB#1 for much of the season at USC, yet he has rushed for nearly twice as many yards as he did at Stanford in 2021 on only 6 more carries.

[Austroturf]

what's the "best site" to monitor transfer portal activity?

I've been following

https://247sports.com/Season/2023-Footba...ferPortal/

is there a better site?

I'm also using this one.  Haven't found a better one yet.

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The NFL departures of guys like Mills, Sarell, Dalman, Parkinson, and Fehoko is what makes most clear Stanford players no longer have loyalty or sense of team. Those aren't departures other programs see. A healthy program might have lost two of those guys.

or they thought that they would not get much better/improve their draft position by staying, contributing factors to that are likely the coaching staff and the prospects for the team.  Hopefully the next coaching staff has a positive impact on those factors.

Agree.  Take a guy like Parkinson, who was the #1 rated tight end coming out of high school, probably had visions of himself being drafted in the first or second round.  I wonder if he was thinking that he wants to go to the NFL ASAP (back in 2019) while he was still draftable in the 4th round than continue to flounder at Stanford and risk falling to UDFA.

BC

I think you guys are talking past each other a little bit.

Matt's definition of "a healthy program" is exactly a program where a kid will not "continue to flounder" (and thus bolt at first opportunity).

"Loyalty and sense of team" are increased when said team is winning and successfully developing its players.

I agree with this. If the program is healthy and winning, players will want to stick around (assuming they are getting the playing time they expect, which should be the case for the best players).  When excellent players are transferring out or leaving early with eligibility on the table, it's not really lack of loyalty but rather lack of belief in the program.  

Austin Jones is the primary example: he bolted to USC because he clearly did not believe in the Stanford football program.  Lack of loyalty?  Perhaps.  But if he had seen his path at Stanford track previous RB careers (Gerhart, Taylor, Gaffney, McCaffrey, Love), he would not have left.  Running futilely behind a dysfunctional O-line was what he wanted to avoid by becoming a Trojan.  So far, it has worked out pretty well for him.  In 2022, he wasn't even RB#1 for much of the season at USC, yet he has rushed for nearly twice as many yards as he did at Stanford in 2021 on only 6 more carries.