TCU went from unranked in the preseason to the national title game. A big driver of the team's success was an effective use of the transfer portal.
As often happens with coaching changes, there was attrition: 15 players left, including some who would become very productive at their new schools. Zach Evans, for instance, rushed for nearly 1,000 yards and nine touchdowns at Ole Miss.
Though some of the 13 transfers have barely played, the bottom line is that Dykes had an opportunity to quickly regenerate a significant portion of the roster at a point when the old rules made it extremely difficult to do so. “Recruiting is not always about finding the bigger, fastest guys,” Dykes told the Dallas Morning News. “Sometimes it’s about finding, especially from a transfer perspective, somebody who can come in and move the needle in a room.”
Isn’t that what fans wanted when the four-team CFP started to get stale with the same teams year after year?
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