Oklahoma football LB David Ugwoegbu enters NCAA Transfer Portal after 100-tackle season

Oklahoma linebacker David Ugwoegbu entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, 247Sports confirmed. Ugwoegbu was a key piece of the Sooners’ protection of their first yr beneath head coach Brent Venables, ending the season because the groups second-leading tackler with 109 tackles. 

Ugwoegbu signed with the Sooners within the Class of 2019. He was a three-star prospect after starring at Katy (Texas) Seven Lakes High School within the larger Houston space. Ugwoegbu performed weak aspect defensive finish in highschool and was ranked the No. 25 prospect nationally at that place. He was additionally the No. 47 general prospect from Texas in that cycle, no matter place.

Oklahoma went 6-7 in its first season beneath Venables after being picked to complete second within the Big 12 standings in the course of the preseason. The Sooners began the yr 3-0 earlier than shedding three straight video games to start out Big 12 play. Oklahoma later misplaced three of 4 video games to finish the season, posting its first shedding season because the 1998 marketing campaign. Oklahoma, at most, hast two seasons remaining within the Big 12 earlier than the Sooners, together with rival Texas, make the leap to the SEC. 

Ugwoegbu is the newest entry in a 2022-23 cycle for the NCAA transfer portal not like any but seen, with a Dec. 5-Jan. 19 window for FBS athletes. Eligible gamers to enter earlier than the window embody FCS gamers, grad transfers, and people whose head coaches have been fired.

The NCAA launched the switch portal Oct. 15, 2018, offering athletes a path to discover their choices. Players don’t must ask permission from their teaching workers so as to switch. They merely must request that compliance enter their identify. Usually, it takes 24-48 hours for a participant to look following their request. Schools are free to contact a participant with out restriction as soon as their identify seems within the portal.

While a participant getting into their identify within the switch portal means they intend to discover their choices, it doesn’t essentially imply they are going to go away. A participant is free to withdraw his identify at any time. However, faculties are beneath no obligation to maintain a participant on scholarship as soon as they enter the portal.

There have been 3,083 FBS gamers to enter the switch portal in the course of the 2021-22 switch cycle, sources stated. That is up from 2,646 in 2021-20, 1,692 in 2019-20 and 1,717 in 2018-19.

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That whopping improve could be credited to the NCAA’s new coverage that student-athletes are allowed to switch as soon as of their careers with out having to take a seat out a year-in-residence. That means all gamers who enter the switch portal for the primary time can be instantly eligible at their new faculty so long as they meet a NCAA-mandated entry deadline.