Photo by Lorene Hale LOGAN – The spring transfer portal window has finally closed, stopping the hemorrhaging of Utah State’s roster, particularly on defense. The final tally sits at 35 players (that are known of) and that high tally has been the primary talking point of USU’s offseason, leading to questions being asked of head coach Blake Anderson and overshadowing some of the positives the team has produced so far this offseason. Though the volume of transfers is alarming on its face, context is always key. When asked about his team’s transfers, Anderson stated multiple times in his answer that, “this is not a Logan problem, this is an NCAA football problem.” So let’s look at the numbers and see how well that claim holds up. Just looking at the volume of transfers and you can easily see Anderson’s point. Transfer numbers have risen dramatically since the inception of the transfer portal in 2018. In that first cycle there were 1,717 transfer according to data provided by the NCAA. In this last cycle the estimated number (which we’ll get into below) is roughly double that. *2022-23 number is an estimation while the other years have data provided by NCAA reports