North Texas linebacker KD Davis has joined the NCAA Transfer Portal. 247Sports learned. Davis notched a total of 121 tackles (including 13 tackles) in Mean Green during the 2021 campaign.
Davis won the honor of First Team All Conference USA in 2021 with his impressive figure, and when UNT is in the final season of the league, he is ready to play an important role in Mean Green Defense again in 2022. I did. Mean Greene will move to the American Athletic Conference, which will take effect on July 1, 2023.
Davis was the top 150 domestic safety player in his class, according to the industry-generated 247Sports Composite Player Ranking, signed with UNT as a three-star prospect in the 2018 class. Davis played high school football in Ennis, Texas, before continuing his football career 75 miles north in Denton.
UNT dropped the Frisco Bowl to Miami (Ohio) 6-7 during the 2021 campaign. The program has been under the direction of Seth Littrell Head Coach since December 2015.
The NCAA introduced a forwarding portal on October 15, 2018, providing athletes with a way to explore their options. Players do not need to ask the coaching staff for permission to transfer. It just requires you to enter a name for compliance. It usually takes 24-48 hours for the player to follow the request. The school is free to contact the player without any restrictions once the name appears on the portal.
Players who enter their name in the transfer portal mean they will consider the option, but not necessarily leave. Players are free to withdraw their name at any time. However, the school is not obliged to keep players on scholarships once they enter the portal.
Recently, the NCAA forwarding portal has been controversial over the intersection with the NIL. Littrell was one of the coaches who spoke with Chris Hummer at 247Sports. Concerns about how the combination of portal, NIL, and NCAA one-off forwarding policies can create a basis for settings like a free agency that facilitates tampering.
Ritrel revealed that there were multiple cases early in the off-season when a coach he considered a friend tried to get a player out of the roster. North Texas has largely evaded efforts. However, advances made to players who have not yet joined the transfer portal mean that the industry is shifting to ritrel. NCAA rules prohibit a school from contacting a player from another school if the portal does not have a name.
“Ethics are starting to change,” Littrell said in April. “And it changes the whole game.”
Chris Hummer contributed to this report.
