The college athletics circus, better known as the Transfer Portal, is a notorious two-way street: It both giveth and taketh away. On average, the Oklahoma Sooners have lost as many as four players to the Transfer Portal every season in the five years Porter Moser has been the OU head coach.
This is the new normal in today’s college athletics, as well as the recruiting battles generated by the bag of money available for name, image, likeness (NIL).
The result is major roster turnover from one year to the next. Moser has had to almost completely rebuild the roster in every one of his seasons in Norman, not just because of outgoing transfers, but also due to graduation and, in the case of freshman guard Jeremiah Fears last season, leaving early for the NBA. Only one of the five OU starters from last season is still with the team, senior center Mohamed Wague. The other four starters are all incoming transfers…