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Vanderbilt lands commitment from infield transfer Jacob Humphrey

Alex Weberby:Alex Weber08/04/23
Troy LaNeve, Vanderbilt Commodores baseball
Vanderbilt players swarm Troy LaNeve after he hit a walk-off home run against Kentucky on May 20, 2021. (Andrew Nelles / USA TODAY Sports)

Vanderbilt baseball made a wonderful little addition to its baseball team in the wee hours of Thursday evening. Late at night on Aug. 3, college baseball insider Kendall Rogers dropped a bomb on Twitter: that UMass Lowell star Jacob Humphrey has committed to play for Vandy for the 2024 season.

Here was that report from Rogers:

“TRANSFER NEWS: @VandyBoys landed a really good one in @RiverHawkBB infielder Jacob Humphrey. The 5-10, 180-pounder, hit .317 with nine homers last season, while also racking up 32 stolen bases. Nice get for the #Dores.”

Heck of a get for Vandy baseball in Humphrey, who enters his junior season next spring after starting in all 107 games for UMass Lowell over his two years there.

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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.

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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.