FSU football: Making sense of Amarius Mims transfer portal recruitment

Mims Recruitment Continued

Mims could have announced a commitment to FSU and visited other schools if he wanted. He could have changed his mind and committed elsewhere after that if he wanted.

The coaching staff had no leverage in the situation. The coaches recruit him and lay everything out to him and his family with the hopes they gain a commitment, and the commitment is honored by the player enrolling in classes when the time comes.

I think what people forget is the college the player leaves can continue to court the player once they enter the transfer portal. As I said, Kirby Smart didn’t want to lose Amarius Mims, so apparently, they kept recruiting him even though he entered the portal.

Georgia beat out all of the other schools recruiting Mims out of high school, so it’s not a crazy thought to think they couldn’t do it again. Nobody is to blame here.

Think of Mims as an employee of a company that gets another job offer and his current job has the opportunity to match or better the job offer. That’s essentially what the transfer portal could become for high-profile players.

Those players have all the leverage in this situation and can use the threat of entering the transfer portal as a way to get better NIL deals, etc. I’m not saying Mims intentionally did this, but this type of stuff is going to change college football forever.