South Florida quarterback Gerry Bohanon enters transfer portal

South Florida quarterback Gerry Bohanon has entered the transfer portal, On3 has learned. The former Baylor quarterback made the jump to USF in May 2022. He has one year of eligibility remaining.

As a starting quarterback at Baylor in 2021 he led the Bears to a No. 5 ranking at the end of the season and a Big 12 title game berth. In four seasons and 27 games with Baylor, Gerry Bohanon threw for more than 2,200 yards and totaled 27 touchdowns, leading the Bears to a Sugar Bowl win.

The former Elite 11 quarterback and four-star recruit dealt with a shoulder injury in 2022. In seven games, threw for 1,070 yards with six touchdowns and six interceptions.

He has not played in a game yet this year. A 2021 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention, Gerry Bohanon will be a seventh-year player.

“A top-10 caliber quarterback in the transfer portal is worth seven figures. But a high school quarterback isn’t worth anything because they’re not going to start,” a collective leader recently told On3.

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.