Kirby Smart exposed the Transfer Portal for the minimal benefit it adds to football

The Transfer Portal has been around long enough now where people are finally able to give an informed opinion on the benefits of it or lackthereof.

Fans and analysts alike can have their own opinions on it, but no one is more qualified than Kirby Smart. He has been directly impacted by the portal and has had to figure out a way to run his program even though the portal is an unpredictable tornado at times, and for the most part he has done an excellent job.

But just because he has done an excellent job doesn't mean that he thinks it's a good thing. And recently he explained why a vast majority of players who enter the portal don't see much of a benefit for doing so.

Kirby Smart proves the Transfer Portal isn't as good as advertised

Smart said that he and his staff at Georgia have studied the protal and how many players benefit from it. And in their studies they discovered that roughly 80 percent of players don't see any sort of improvement when they transfer to their new teams.

These players either find the same amount of success as they did at their new schools or sometimes struggle more than they ever did. So instead of finding a better opportunity they are no better off than they originally were.

One thing Smart didn't mention is players who transfer to a new school and start making more money. Those players that do make more money would definitely consider it a successful decision even if their stats stay the same, but of those 80 percent of players it's hard to imagine that is the case for many of them.

From Georgia's perspective they have definitely brought in a few players who have succeeded more than they did at their previous schools, but they do have examples of players who struggled more once they got to Athens. Unfortunately it seems like this is a trend that will continue, and that is why Smart doesn't want to rely on the portal too much at Georgia.

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