Coaches have had a coaching transfer portal going for... ever.

Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for DisneyI used to sit down with a friend of mine and talk business (pronounced b’ness) all the time. We would talk about coaching, teaching, therapy and the one word that would make us both laugh was “parlay.” Parlay was a word I would constantly use to describe taking the momentum from Job A and using it to land Job B. With B of course being the better job: more cash or more creativity, or if you’re lucky, more of both (it’s always both, right?).

With the coaching carousel never really over until the first game is played (and really, it ain’t over then either as coaches are fired and interim coaches are moved in, back room interviews are taking place long…