Report: Texas LB Terrence Cooks II to enter transfer portal
Texas linebacker Terrence Cooks II will enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, per a report from 247Sports.
Cooks II was not listed in the NCAA Transfer Portal as of 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, per Inside Texas sources. However, Cooks II’s mother took to Twitter to all but confirm the freshman linebacker’s time as a Longhorn was over. Cooks II retweeted his mother’s post.
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Cooks II, a consensus top-300 prospect from Pearland (Texas) Shadow Creek, enrolled early as part of Texas 2021 class. He appeared in one game during the 2021 season: Texas’ 58-0 win over the Rice Owls.
Cooks II committed to the Longhorns in November 2020. On3 ranked him as the No. 231 player in the 2021 class and the No. 34 player in Texas. He had over 35 offers including Alabama, Arizona State, Baylor, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, Stanford, and Texas A&M.
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.
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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.
This story will be updated when additional information becomes available.
