Texas Tech quarterback Parker McNeil announces transfer destination

Former Texas Tech quarterback Parker McNeil entered the transfer portal recently and he appears to have found a new home in college football. The 6-foot-4, 225-pound signal-caller announced his transfer destination on his Twitter page on Sunday. He’ll be playing his college football next year for head coach Sonny Cumbie and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.

Grateful is an understatement. Thank you @SCumbie_LaTech for this opportunity! #GoDogs pic.twitter.com/RQhdJfoWfE

— Parker McNeil (@14ParkerM) January 30, 2022

Cumbie was the former offensive coordinator at Texas Tech in 2021. He also started his coaching career in Lubbock in 2009. Cumbie was also one of the top signal-callers in Red Raider football history under Mike Leach.

McNeil spent the 2021 season with the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Before joining the Red Raiders he spent one season at Troy and two seasons at Navarro College.

While at Navarro College, he threw for 5,635 passing yards and 51 touchdowns in 21 games. The Corsicana, Texas native was named a Juco All-American following the 2018 and 2019 seasons at Navarro. He became only the fourth player since 1970 and first since 2004-05 to lead the NJCAA in passing yards in back-to-back seasons.

He visited Louisiana Tech this weekend and clearly, loved what he saw during his visit. His current competition in the quarterback room for the Bulldogs will be: Matthew Downing, Luke Anthony, Caleb Holstein, and Landry Lyddy.

For more updates on where all the college football prospects are heading this off-season, keep it locked into the 2022 On3 College Football Transfer Portal Wire.

More on the NCAA Transfer Portal

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.

The portal has been around since Oct. 15, 2018, and the new calendar cycle within the portal begins each August. For example, the 2021-22 cycle started Aug. 1. During the 2020-21 cycle, 2,626 FBS football players entered the transfer portal (including walk-ons). That comes after 1,681 entered during the 2019-20 cycle and 1,709 during the abbreviated 2018-19 cycle. In comparison, 1,833 Division I basketball players entered the portal during the 2020-21 cycle after totals of 1,020 in 2019-20 and 1,063 in 2018-19.