A-portaling we will go

Big fan of comeuppance that it is, the Blob loves him some transfer portal-ing. Few things are more satisfying than watching arrogant institutions get hoist by their own petard -- and the transfer portal is Exhibit A for that in college football.

It's introduced utter chaos into the whole money-grubbing mess, and there's a measure of hilarity in that. After all, it's not every day you see a business go from operating like a plantation ("You are to remain the property of Big Deal U. until WE say you can leave") to complete anarchy ("Aw, hell, go wherever you want whenever you want") in a virtual blink of the eye.

(Also, every time the Blob hears the words "transfer portal", it sees this. Scratch a Blob, find a Trekkie.) 

In any event, the latest portal-ing adventure involves Notre Dame, and in particular Notre Dame's starting quarterback. His name is Drew Pyne, and he lost the job to Tyler Buchner in the preseason and then won it back and kept it after Buchner was injured. All Notre Dame did after that was reel off eight wins in nine games.

Drew Pyne didn't win those games for the Irish, mind you. But he did nothing to lose them, either.

Now he's entering the portal, even though the Blob suspects it was no sure thing he wouldn't have beaten out a healthy Buchner for the job in 2023. This means he won't be playing in whatever bowl game the Irish draw, which is a big deal only to fossils like the Blob.

I mean, let's face it. Here in the Days of Chaos, every postseason game except for three is just a cash-grab exhibition for the schools that didn't make the College Football Playoff. Even the Rose Bowl is likely to get an also-also-ran after Ohio State backs into the CFP thanks to USC blowing it in the Pac-12 championship.

But enough about that. More intriguing is what Pyne entering the portal suggests about Notre Dame and the portal.

Which is that Pyne bailing hints he caught wind of the Irish going portal fishing for their own defector QB.

This sounds more logical than Pyne leaving simply because he might have to beat out Tyler Buchner again. Sounds more like Marcus Freeman either has some disgruntled quarterback on the hook, or he's actively looking for one. 

It's the Days of Chaos, after all. Working the transfer portal is a required skill set for any successful head coach now.

Something else we fossils need to get used to.