The Ritzville Adams County Journal - Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887

This time of year gets interesting for a number of reasons, one of them being the transfer portal. For football you may see some guy that played in another part of the country and now during spring practice may be the next QB or offensive lineman at your favorite college. But the guy that was your starting QB is now at a rival college using the same transfer mechanism.

The transfer portal has been a boon for some schools while others think of themselves as a farm club training players to find stardom somewhere else. It is too bad that there aren’t ways that the school that spent time recr...