PITTSBURGH — No one has ever described the NCAA's transfer portal from the inside, but assuming you can get Wi-Fi and maybe free continental breakfast, there's no telling how long it will be until Jordan Addison is transported to his next college football address.
Addison was the best pass catcher at Pitt since Larry Fitzgerald until early last week, when he was sucked into the transfer portal in a moment that shook the foundation of the sport, such as it is. It's not as though he went kicking and screaming, because presumably he'll turn up at a school in better proximity to larger payouts for use of his name, image, and likeness (NIL), or maybe because, in the transfer portal, no one can hear you scream.
Football coaches and the college administrators who approve their obscene salaries are reacting as though they've awakened on some post-apocalyptic hell scape where someone or something other than themselves and their own oleaginous boosters and sycophants are controlling the players. Their howling is downright hilarious. Coaches are the most duplicitous of the characters in this melodrama, as it's common for coaches to break contracts and switch schools for better money, but the administrators are having a complete nervous breakdown, with some even taking their fresh psychosis to Washington.
