Ole Miss Safety Tysheem Johnson enters transfer portal

Ole Miss safety Tysheem Johnson of Philadelphia (PA) announced that he would be entering the transfer portal Friday evening.

The 5-foot-10, 195 pounder will have two years of eligibility remaining.

First off I want to say thank you to The University of Mississippi and the entire coaching staff. This was a tough and difficult decision but with the support of my friends and family I’ve decided to enter the transfer portal. 

Thanks to my teammates for the bonds we created, we’ll be brothers forever.

 Lastly I want to thank the fans from the Oxford community.

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.