Sonny Dykes has never been in love with the transfer portal. But just leaving it at that would be a grave oversimplification. It is a far more complex relationship.
SMU’s third-year head coach has at times questioned the message the portal sends to student-athletes. As a college football lifer, the son of a college coach, it is predicable the transfer portal could at least strike some chord of discomfort for Dykes.
But there is also the reality that SMU has used the transfer portal more effectively, and more frequently, than almost any other college program over the last two seasons.