I bump this one to snack on a little crow. Weeks ago, when the administration opened a bit of an investigation into Co Harbinger, one of the problems I cited was, as the thread title suggested, the exodus of players, which at the time, was disturbing. To me, anyway. I had not heard of any program not named Tennessee, have 20 or more players decide to leave. UT had something like 27 or 28 players leave, but was understandable given the coaching change and the fact that the toothless NCAA was most assuredly coming to call.
While I definitely believe there were problems that needed to be addressed with Bryman Hasbinz, I'll concede and defer to those of you who thought this was more a product of culture change, and the weeding out those who didn't want to be pushed to be better. Listening to sports talk at lunch, and hear that Bama had a another one jump in today, bringing their total to 19. Granted, they keep picking up players from the portal, but still, 19 is a lot. Plus, I saw one figure the other day saying there was something like 2,600 players who had declared. I guess that's just the way college football will be for the foreseeable future.
BTW, the Bama media does not refer to it as players leaving the program, or transferring out. It's referred to as, "Roster Changes."