The transfer portal permits student athletes to place their name in an on-line database declaring their desire to transfer. Athletes enter the portal by informing their current school of their desire to transfer; the school then has two business days to enter the athletes' name in the database.Whats a transfer portal? Is it to move to another university? If so, that is bad.
There are a number of reasons an athlete may want to transfer such as: New head coach, not getting the desired playing time, promises from recruitment not being kept, academics, etc. It provides freedom they never had, to go where they want to go, play where they want to play, see where their skills might take them.
At least in college football, many of the top athletes you'll see will have transferred before, Joe Burrows being one of the more recent examples.