Classmate Q&A: Navy Transfer Portal Tracker
Posted: 8/12/2025
QUESTION
What effect will NIL and/or the Trasfer Portal have on USNA (or all three Academies) Football?
Question from Tom Petillo (1st Company)

ANSWER
In era of NIL ($ for name, image and likeness) and transfer portal, Navy and Army are thriving without either. How are they pulling it off? ‘We are a unicorn’. Click HERE for an article from October 2024.
Click HERE for the Navy Portal Tracker page, an at-a-glance view of the total “talent churn” through the portal, as well as key additions, impactful losses and how they rank amongst all FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of college football competition in the NCAA) schools and within the conference.
Our thanks to Charlie Jones (22nd Company) for the information cited above.
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