Indiana LB Dasan McCullough enters transfer portal

Indiana LB Dasan McCullough of Bloomington (IN) announced that he would be entering the transfer portal Sunday night.

The 6-foot-5, 225 pounder sent a message to On3 regarding his entrance into the portal:

First off I would like to say thank you to Coach Allen, Coach Teegardin and the entire coaching staff at Indiana University, for giving me a chance to play in front of my hometown.

I would also like to thank each of my teammates for pushing me to be my best every day and believing in me.

After careful conversations with my Family and God, I would like to announce that I Am Entering The Transfer Portal.

Yours Truly, 

Dasan McCullough 

#SR

Transfer portal background information

The NCAA Transfer Portal, which covers every NCAA sport at the Division I, II and III levels, is a private database with names of student-athletes who wish to transfer. It is not accessible to the public.

The process of entering the portal is done through a school’s compliance office. Once a player provides written notification of an intent to transfer, the office enters the player’s name in the database and everything is off and running. The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player’s request and that request cannot be refused.

Once a player’s name shows up in the portal, other schools can contact the player. Players can change their minds at any point and withdraw from the portal. However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship no longer has to be honored. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school is not obligated to provide a scholarship anymore.

The database is a normal database, sortable by a variety of topics, including (of course) sport and name. A player’s individual entry includes basic details such as contact info, whether the player was on scholarship and whether the player is transferring as a graduate student.

A player can ask that a “do not contact” tag be placed on the report. In those instances, the players don’t want to be contacted by schools unless they’ve initiated the communication.