Report: Former Notre Dame big man Elijah Taylor transfers to Quinnipiac

Former Notre Dame Fighting Irish forward Elijah Taylor has found his home for the 2022-2023 season after entering the transfer portal in late April. According to college basketball insider, Jeff Goodman, Taylor has committed to play for Quinnipiac next year.

Taylor first came to Notre Dame as a three-star recruit in the 2020 recruiting class, and he was the 37th-rated power forward and the fourth-rated player out of the state of Pennsylvania in his class, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average.

Notre Dame went 24-11 this past season and 15-5 against ACC opponents.

Transfer portal background information for Notre Dame

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.