South Carolina transfer TE Austin Stogner commits to Oklahoma

South Carolina transfer tight end Austin Stogner has committed to Oklahoma. He spent three seasons in Norman prior to playing the 2022 year with South Carolina. Now, he makes his return home official.

Run it back! pic.twitter.com/L439sTHd44

— Austin Stogner (@austin_stogner) December 8, 2022

Stogner was a senior tight end for the Gamecocks who recorded 20 catches for 210 yards and a touchdown in 2022. He was a true senior who spent one season at South Carolina following a transfer from Oklahoma. Now, he’ll return back to Norman for a second stint.

While with the Sooners, Stogner earned second-team All-Big 12 honors from the Associated Press in 2020.

During his four-year career in college so far, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound tight end has recorded 67 catches for 864 yards and nine touchdowns.

Prior to signing with Oklahoma and before entering (for a second time) the NCAA transfer portal, he was a four-star prospect in the 2019 recruiting class, according to the On3 Consensus recruiting rankings. He checked in as the No. 143 overall player in his class, while ranking as the No. 3 tight end that year and the No. 22 overall player in the state of Texas.

To keep up with the latest players on the move, check out On3’s Transfer Portal wire. 

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.

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.