Questions about the infamous portal

2 primary questions, 2 different scenarios:

Do runners in the transfer portal have to reach out to schools that would not give them scholarship money and what are the chances those schools would take the runner as a walk on? It seems like the portal is a place where runners get contacted by coaches who would like them to join and would likely be willing to fund their schooling, but could a good runner end up on a bigger, national level team but not on scholarship?

Also, for grad students looking to fund their way through college, can a school give you any money for a year that you are not competing for them? If a school really wanted you, could they offer to give you scholarship money to compete for them for a year but the scholarship money last for two years for a master's degree? Any info is appreciated.

I understand these are very different scenarios for different runners. If you have information about one and not the other, that is fine, anything is appreciated.

scandanavianspacerun wrote:
2 primary questions, 2 different scenarios:
Do runners in the transfer portal have to reach out to schools that would not give them scholarship money and what are the chances those schools would take the runner as a walk on? It seems like the portal is a place where runners get contacted by coaches who would like them to join and would likely be willing to fund their schooling, but could a good runner end up on a bigger, national level team but not on scholarship?
Also, for grad students looking to fund their way through college, can a school give you any money for a year that you are not competing for them? If a school really wanted you, could they offer to give you scholarship money to compete for them for a year but the scholarship money last for two years for a master's degree? Any info is appreciated.
I understand these are very different scenarios for different runners. If you have information about one and not the other, that is fine, anything is appreciated.

question 1-- schools can reach out to you as well as you are able to contact other schools. So say that a school you are interested in doesn't reach out, you can still reach out to them. They could still be interested! Personally I can tell you I transferred a couple years back and there was a team that I was surprised that didn't contact me, found out later on that they wanted to/would have but didn't have any money available so they didn't bother because they didn't think I would've gone there without any scholarship offer. So just because a school doesn't reach out doesn't mean they aren't interested.

question 2-- they can't offer you money beyond your eligibility termination. So if you finished eligibility and could no longer compete for them after the end of next year but still had school to finish that's on you. Now if you transfer to a P5 conference school like I did they now have that money though NIL or something like that? Where you essentially get paid ~$3k/semester from the school if you stay out of trouble and keep above a certain GPA (depends on school and their rules though); I saved and used that to cover the rest of my graduate classes the fall after I finished running.

Hope that helps!:)

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