There’s a lot going on.
It used to be that the offseason was a time to breathe, a fleeting six months where we didn’t live and die by the things we see on our television screens. Now, the news comes in waves, as we venture into a new landscape where everything is up in the air and nothing is settled in the ways we’ve become accustomed to. Some call the transfer portal a Calamity, an assault on the sport we love, a fundamental shift in the natural rules that have governed our seasonal television habits for years. Others see it as a necessary reimagining of the formula, full of exciting opportunities and creative ways to solve problems like position depth or holes in rosters left by early departures to greener fields.