re: Etienne: "I could either be RB2 on a losing team, or RB1 on a team that can win a natty"

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This will be happening to every team in the SEC on the reg. Never take it personally. It's all bidness.

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Well, the exact same thing won't happen to teams who are in the national title hunt as the players wouldn't be leaving a losing team.

The reality with the transfer portal is good players from teams doing poorly will "transfer up". Guys not playing on good teams will transfer down.

In the end it all helps the better teams. It doesn't spread the talent the way many expected. UGA has had a lot of guys transfer out over the past few year, but only 4-5 of them were really "losses". Most were clearing out guys who weren't playing in order to sign full recruiting classes where UGA otherwise would have had 15 man classes coming in if the non-contributors hadn't transferred out.