Mike Elko Compares The Transfer Portal To A 'Neighborhood Garage Sale'

During his radio show on Wednesday, Texas A&M coach Mike Elko shared his take on the NCAA transfer portal, which he said was like "a neighborhood garage sale." Per On3:

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“Here’s the analogy I’ll make, and I don’t know if I should say this live but the people in this audience all appreciate this, the Transfer Portal is like the neighborhood garage sale,” Mike Elko said. “It’s not just go in and pick out whatever you want and everything’s good. Within the neighborhood garage sale, there’s a lot of really good things but it takes a lot of work.”

“You’ve got to get out of the car, go look around the whole lot. You’ve got to look under some blankets. Like, you’ve got to find what’s right. I think that’s how you approach the Transfer Portal,” Elko said. “It’s not just, ‘Oh, hey, here’s a shiny thing. I bet it’s gonna have nothing wrong with it,’ right? You kind of go in with a jaded thought process of, ‘Okay, why is he transferring? How is he gonna help us? What’s the character like? What’s he gonna do when he gets here? What’s his role gonna be? Is he gonna be able to handle his role?’ And you kind of put all of that together into a puzzle to project what it’s gonna look like on your roster. I think that’s how we approach it.”

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