TCU lands Arizona State transfer Ezra Dotson-Oyetade

Former Arizona State offensive lineman Ezra Dotson-Oyetade is officially out of the transfer portal after finding a new home. Dotson-Oyetade announced from his social media account that he has committed to play for the TCU Horned Frogs for the 2022 college football season. The former Sun Devil will head back to his home state of Texas to play for TCU, which is just under two hours away from where he grew up.

Dotson-Oyetade is a high-caliber four-star recruit out of the 2021 recruiting class. The Garland, Texas, native, a small city just outside of Fort Worth, ranked in the top 300 of his class at No. 241. Ne was also the No. 16 ranked interior offensive lineman.

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.