Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - SHADOW PORTAL: NCAA CRACKS DOWN as Coaches Face STIFF Penalties for Transfer Loophole Abuse

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

NCAA targets the “shadow portal” as coaches and players navigate new transfer rules—will this clampdown reshape college football’s future? Alex Donno, Kenton Gibbs, and Brian Smith break down the NCAA’s bold new penalties aimed at curbing backdoor transfers, exploring how schools and players might adapt and whether these moves can actually hold up in court. The crew also tackles Rueben Bain’s NFL draft prospects, questioning whether his shorter wingspan should overshadow his on-field dominance for Miami. Plus, get insight into defining games for Florida State, NC State, and Miami, and the playoff implications riding on matchups against programs like Alabama, Notre Dame, and SMU. With lively debate, insider anecdotes, and a dash of humor, this Locked On ACC episode delivers the latest on ACC football’s hot-button topics and the stories that will shape the 2026 season and beyond. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There's something called the Shadow Portal. And the NCAA is doing everything they possibly can to stop it. You are Locked on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Shout out to the everydayers and thank you so much for making Locked on ACC, your first listen. We're available free wherever you get your podcast. We're free on YouTube. part of the number one Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. He is Kenton Gibbs,

former NC State defensive lineman and co-host of Lockdown Wolfpack. I am Alex Dono, host of Lockdown Keynes, and today's episode is brought to you by Five Hour Energy. Have your cake and drink it too. Birthday cake flavor is back. No fork needed. Vanilla, cakey flavor, caffeinated kick and no sugar. It's party time. Order now at Five Hour Energy.com or on Amazon. on this episode, ESPN has defined their, well, they've defined their defining games for every ACC team next season. We'll talk about Ruben Bain's draft stock because he's getting ripped to shreds by the nerds after measuring his arms and they're, you know, shorter than they want them to be.

The T-Rex meme. But let's talk about the shadow portal and no one better to talk about that with than the host of the portal pod here on Lod. on as Brian Smith of the portal joins us. All right. So Brian, notably different from the last few years is there's not another transfer portal opening. Last few years, we've had a winter transfer portal and then a spring transfer portal.

And I think a lot of coaches maybe liked the idea of having another crack at the portal because you go through your spring football, God forbid an important player gets injured or somebody you thought was a starter, has a terrible spring. and then you have another shopping spree available in April. That shopping spree can no longer legally happen, but a lot of folks think that players are going to be transferring without hitting the port. Have you heard buzz that this shadow portal is something that, you know, could happen, maybe not any longer, but would have happened.

I actually got a phone call from somebody you know, Alex, yesterday, like, yeah, this is bad. I've spoken to an AD. They know what's happening. A.Ds are talking about ways to try to stop it. And we'll get into the picture, Alex. We'll put it up here in a minute with the proposed ways to get around it. But basically what it is is players saying, we're going to flip you the bird, and we're just going to withdraw, and we're going to enroll in another school,

walk on to another school, and that's it. Of course, there's always repercussions. The gray area here where the player can still do that. Kenton's talked about this a lot. I know you have too. They are not employees. So that gives you a lot of gray area. However,

I have never said this since I've known Alex Dono. Not one time. The NCAA did something brilliant. You may never hear me say that again. Alex puts this up on the screen, you'll understand. It really is. Here's the three prongs.

Number one, the players, they're out of it. You're not going to see player anywhere. in that nowhere. It's smart. Okay. They can go around it. But if your team takes one of these points, just one guy, your coach misses the first six games, he can't recruit, he can't be in meetings. That's only prong number one. There are two more. Secondarily, you lose 20% of your football revenue. Prong three,

the following season, you lose five scholarships. Have a nice day. They're saying do not do this. So what you're saying there, is that they they can at the NCAA you think can enforce this because it's punishment on coaches who are employees rather than players who are not so that's the NCAA's loophole well it's it's them getting around the stupidity of the loophole the players and quite honestly their agents are using let's be really honest it's an agent problem as much as anything yeah in a player if they still want to go somewhere else they can it's your right to an education it is not your to play as a scholarship player just anywhere.

That's where the rules come in and that's where they get away. It's brilliant. It is. It is. How is this going to stand up in court? I don't know, but this cooked. Whoever did this. Oh, my.

I give credit now. I give me credit. I'm going to tell you, before the show, we were tongue in cheek talking about a potential shadow portal show, starring Alex Dono and a series of other very nefarious figures of college football all gathered here together. Maybe we get coach Jason Brown from Last Chance. You know what I'm going to do?

Every time I have a guest on the Shadow Portal, their faces will be blurred out and their voices will be, you know how they do that thing where they kind of, they do like the muffling of the voice? I am, yes. I am a coach, J.B. Yes, I coached in the NCA for many years. But I'm going to tell you something.

This is actually kind of genius because when you think about it, you know, the argument that Smitty made is perfect. It is your right to attend wherever. It's not your right to play wherever at all. Even as a scholarship athlete, if it's in the bylaws that you cannot play or you face these restrictions. And Dono, I want to talk about something you said

in that opening stanza there where you said, if a player gets hurt, even if a player doesn't get hurt, let's look at an ACC team, for example, UVA's quarterback. Even if nobody gets hurt and Chairler Morris gets struck down in court. What happens?

Either Holstein or Puehula is going to be ride the bench. Yeah. And I don't think that either one of them anticipate doing that in this upcoming year. And mind you, you've got the monkey wrench of he could come back. Now you got not one but two quarterbacks hitting the market. And now how many teams that are without a quarterback or worst case scenario are in a position Syracuse was last year where it was like, yeah, we got the guy that we think of our guy. but behind him, we may have to play a lacrosse kid.

How many schools are in that position that are like, you know what, Tribula may not be great, I'll take them. Hosting may not be great, I'll take them. We got ourselves a qualified backup. So to limit this shadow portal, I think that the NCAA had to get out ahead of it. And like Brian, I applaud the NCAA. You know, we're going to tell you when the NCAA means no clue at all.

But this time, you got out in front of it. You said, all right, this is a problem that we foresee having and did something meaningful about it because of coach. You can't just up and leave as, oh, well, everything's fine. I'm not, you know, we'll put out an injunction for me to be able to coach. Okay, try it. See how it goes for you. Now, something I'm hoping, and I don't know if you have the answer to this, Brian. Maybe Kenton, you do.

You know how so like the last couple of years because of the spring portal, which is no longer a thing. And now the NCAA is trying to crack down on the shadow. portal, are we going to get televised spring games back? Because what wasn't, wasn't that allegedly? That was a big reason why people stopped doing spring games was other teams are going to scout our players on our spring game and then they're going to sign them through the April portal. Now that there's no April portal and there's no shadow portal, I just want my spring games back,

man. Donno, I have bad news for you. Okay. This is, and again, we don't want to get too deep into the political weeds here, but this is like somebody who believes that the. prices are going to go back down, not the tariffs are gone. You mean they're not? It don't work like that. It don't work like that.

These spring games are not in mass going to come back and be publicly televised the way that they were before. Those days are gone and they're never coming back. They're never. I talked to a few different coaches about it when the spring games originally started getting cut. And what I heard was it took away from a meaningful practice to basically put out nothing but vanilla stuff and you're trying not to get players hurt, but you're still trying to show

enough nice stuff or put one or two players in positions to make plays to where the fans want to give more money. And so it's, it sounded like it became a headache. I talked to three different coaches about it, one head coached, two coordinators, and it just seemed like there just wasn't a ton of interest in in keeping this thing going. And FYI, I know all of them were not in Raleigh. As a matter of fact, all them weren't even in ACC, but they were all power four. And it was just a, you know, it's a little bit of a headache.

So hearing that from one of the bigger brands in college football, I highly doubt that anybody would feel this great urge to like, not only are we bringing it back, but we're publicly televising the game. Teams may do the little, you know, put on the dog for the fans, as they say, just put on a little pomp and circumstance deal. But I don't think we're ever going to go back

to having a traditional spring game in a way that we're using. If I can't have a spring game back, I'd rather have a shadow portal if we're being honest. I need something exciting in April. if I can't have a spring game. Hey, listen, we got to tell all of our underworld connects to watch out for Dono, because he's up to some shadowy things. When you see somebody on Locked on ACC with the bandana around him off,

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All right, fellas. Kenton, let me start with you on this one because you played defensive line. So Rubin Bain is getting headlines. His official arm measurement is 30 and 7 eighths inches, which they say it's first percentile among edge rushers and defensive. of lineman. How much does that matter versus the actual tape and what he's done on the field?

Well, you know, Dono, I personally think, first of all, it's produced some amazing memes, right? The memes, he's predicted to be drafted by the Jets, which means he'll play Will Campbell twice a year. And people said, us watching Will Campbell and him go at, and there's two T-Rexes hitting each other with their heads. I saw that. And it's beautiful. Cinema. Shout out to the internet. Never changed.

But now selfishly, I want to say, oh, this disqualifies him from the top half of the first round of the NFL draft. Because the team that draft 17 is the first one of Detroit Lions. So selfishly, I want to say that, right? But that's the non-ball knower in me. That's the diehard Lions fan in me. The ball knower in me says, at some point in time, these guys have to put on pads and play football game. At some point in time, we have to say, well, wait a minute, forget how short his arms are, forget how fast he runs in the 40, forget how quick he runs a shuttle and all that good stuff. When I put him on the field and he was lined up against competition of his age cohort, what did he do?

And Rubin's been dominating him since he was 18. He's been dominating since he had a firm hairline. That thing crepting back on him now. He's creaking back on him now. Yeah. Let me tell you something. I saw, I knew when I saw that hair line at the combine, I said, oh, he went no haircut, no face lined up, no nothing. He's been in the lab. He's been grinding. Big fella's ready to eat. I'm going to tell you, at the end of the day, when I look at Ruben Bay, even if you say he'll never pan out an edge, you're going to have to kick him down to a four eye, maybe even a three tech at the NFL level.

Do you know how many successful three techs there have been at his weight plus 10 or 15 pounds? $285, $2.90, what? He's $270 right now, right? Yeah, well, he weighed actually $263 at the combine, but I've seen him play heavier. So, and when he played heavier, he lost a little bit of that quickness, but he was still plenty quick for an edge, right? Yeah. Now, imagine sliding that down to a three-tech, about 15 pounds on it.

You know, like, there's plenty of ways that you can play of Rubin Bade, and because he brings so much in so many different ways, I kid you not. I cannot find a way to keep this guy off of field. I think everything from a three-eye to, I'm sorry, from a three technique to a five, he can play it all. He can play the three.

Four-eye, to me, I think he'd be one of the best we've ever seen in that kind of Richard Seymour mode of like, hey, I'm taking on tackles on a regular own run block. Because most of these tackles in the NFL now, they get a little light in the behind. They're getting a little thin.

They're getting a little, you've got a pass block 50 times a game. So him going up against these. tackles that weigh 320 soaking wet, he's going to be mauling those dudes. And you kick him out to a five, I think he'll be just fine there as well. So, I mean, the arm length and all that, this is nerds nerding themselves into doing something stupid, just like with Anthony Richardson. I told everybody with Anthony Richardson, stop being nerds.

Watch the games. He cannot do what is required. Yeah, that was they were nerding in the other direction. Yeah, that was too far on the measurables. And you know what? Let's get back into the D-Line. Just like with Shamar Stewart, I told everybody, I've seen. this guy's tape. There's nothing there

to justify first round. There's nothing. There's nothing. He's a pretty good guy at stopping to run. He looks a little lazy. He doesn't have a developed pass rush plan. Ruben Bayne is the exact opposite. He's got all of the things you just look at him and say, well, his arms

are a little short. Yeah, well, when he goes up against guards and tackles in college with those short O'Long, against the vaunted Texas Tech line, number one pass blocking O line in the in all the college football. Did he look fine? Did he do all right? A&M, you mean?

Yeah. A&M, yes, that's correct. Did he do all right against A&M? Did he do okay? And my point on that was, so he was matching up for much of the game against, you know, an NFL prospect at offensive tackle and Trey Zoon, the third, who's one of the best in the country, right? And Rubin Bain was repeatedly winning that matchup.

So if he's winning that matchup on a college field against a future, NFL guy. Why would he not win those matchups at the NFL level? Well, apparently when the NFL coach gets and they're going to say, oh, we need your arms just to be a little bit longer. We can't coach it with these short arms because, you know, the NFL hasn't had anybody who's anomalous to those physical traits. But Smitty, I'm going to let you have this. I think the only thing that Bain needs to do, and his mother, good gal, should help him with this. He should go by 31 T-Rex little toys. and mail them to each team that pass on it.

Yes. I think he can play. I pretty much echo what Kenton Gibbs just said. I've known Rubin for a long time. He's a good guy. He's not going to cause your problems off the field. I think that he enjoys the craft, like watching him work before games, seeing him at camps.

He's always the same guy like Donald and I've been around him about like signings. He's always the same guy. Those are the people that are. generally successful in the national football league. And the tape obviously says that he was the most well-rounded defensive man in the country. The only guy I think might have been better was the guy played opposite him in the same lineup. It's debatable. whichever one you want, take your pick.

But whatever. And you want to know the crazy part about the off-field stuff? I have heard nothing from anybody, including rival schools that folks I've talked to from rival schools. They're just like, I've got nothing on this kid. He's hard worker. He goes in. He does his thing. You would never hear him being unbecoming towards anybody.

He's the type of person that cleans up after himself in the locker room and stuff like that. Like everything I've heard about this kid, stand up guy that wants to work and wants to be great at football. And the biggest thing for me, he loves ball. He's crazy about the process. And there's, I'll never forget, my defensive coordinator in high school told me something that I'll, it stuck with me. and it still sticks with me to this day. He told me, you eat an elephant the same way you eat a chicken nugget, one bite at a time, and that's how you get great.

You don't get great by waking up one day and deciding I'm going to be a multi-sac guy. You start your day with the thought of, what do I need to eat? How do I need to sleep? How do I need to show up in the world? What do I need to do in a class for all those things to be that guy? And by all accounts, Ruben Bain has been that in every aspect of his life. So if those GMs do pass him up, Smitty, hopefully he only need about 16, maybe 15, because I know some teams that got two drive picks and add the lines.

Hopefully you don't need too many of those T-Rexes to ship out. Well, you know, knowing, no, yeah, he should. Sell him on eBay. Yeah, and getting to know Rubin for the past few years, the more teams that pass on him, the better pro he's going to be because he takes stuff like that personal. Like if he was the number one overall pick, not saying that will happen, then he would have like a good career. If he's like the 15th overall pick,

he's going to have a chip on his shoulder, a mile high, and he's going to be a pro football Hall of Famer. So he's going to take more motivation, the more teams that pass on him. But coming up next, what I want to get you guys as take for the prescriptions for Florida State, NC State, Miami as well, are these the defining games of the 2026 football season?

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All right, so ESPN, I love how they come up with stories to get us through these long off seasons. All right. They have posted what they refer to as the defining games for every powerful team for next season. Let me run the one by you, Brian, for Florida State. Do you agree with their assessment that October 17th at Miami will be Florida State's defining game of the season coming up? I don't because I think it's before then. I don't think they're going to win that game regardless. I think it's the SMU game week two.

It's at home and they get a bye week after that. But then they go to this place. I think we've all heard of it. It's called Tuscaloosa. If they start one and two, you could get dicey. And before they play Miami, it's the end of a three game stretch. They got Virginia at home. They go to Louisville on a Friday.

Then they go to Miami. If they lose that SMU game, and they're almost, they're not going to beat Bama two years in a row, the Miami game will be the farewell song. That's how I look at it. So maybe Miami loses on purpose to keep Mike Norvell employed for another few years. You should absolutely equip that. Brother, your loss would be in vain. You would be wasting a good, perfectly good Miami loss that will keep him out of the conference championship for no reason.

You understand? That would be, because he's still going. based on what this year is shaped it up to be. But I will say, Smitty, that definitely fits what I've said about this Miami, or about this Florida State team for quite some time in terms of Norville will not be there after Halloween. I don't believe he'll be there. Well, they've got a buy right after the Miami game. When do coaches get fired in season?

Oh, it's the-bye. That buy week, yeah, two weeks to start off with the new coach. Just saying. Yeah, no, I agree with Smitty about that. the prime time game there, the pivotal game. Because, I mean, at the end of the day, if you upset SMU, you put yourself on a trajectory, not to necessarily where you can upset Alabama do all these great things, but it puts you on a trajectory to where at least you're

starting off your ACC play on the right foot. You're in a place where you could sell the dream and the hope of we may have gotten throttled in Tuscaloosa, but here's the thing. Or, yeah, we won in Tuscaloosa and we won here. Now, we've got the mojo's finally back from that player. or from the should have been playoff snub. Then I guarantee of Virginia would win then, but that's another story. Yeah, I agree with you guys.

It shouldn't be the Miami game for Florida State. Now, interestingly, for Miami, they don't go with the Florida State game, so they don't have it mutual. But I think they got it right, Brian, from Miami, they define the game at South Bend, Indiana, at Notre Dame on November 7th. And I agree, I mean, on paper, it's the toughest game on Miami's schedule. You know, it's a potential playoff preview, and it's a game that could potentially decide playoff seating.

Whoever wins that game is in significantly better position. Obviously, every game of the ACC schedule can be defining, because Miami's never won that bad boy for those keeping score. But that Notre Dame game November 7th, I agree. That's one that could definitely define your postseason position. That could be one versus two during either the regular season or in the title game. So it's possible. Yeah, and that game is intriguing because as somebody who's lived there, that could be sunny in 65 or wind blowing sideways with snow and 17. So that game could be all kinds of things.

So I'll be curious to see what the weather is like. November and South Bend is wild. Yeah, that game could absolutely have a ton of implications behind it. And I think one thing that people don't realize is Notre Dame schedule is very thin outside of these big games. So it's not just a big game from Miami's perspective. because if Notre Dame, you know, goes into that one and limps out with a home loss against Miami, that, it definitely hurts. And now it makes their cushion for error basically zero, right?

If you include a Miami win, even if Miami is not the Miami that they were this past season, you're still looking at a situation where, hey, we've got enough to where it looks right that we're here. It looks right that we're at number 12 and nobody's saying, wait a minute, How the hell did Notre Dame sneak in here? What backdoor deal did they set up? But if you lose this game and then on the Miami side, like you said, Donnell, Miami got their way into the playoff last year without an ACC championship.

It's like Will Smith on the episode of Fresh Prince when his dad did come around. To hell with an ACC championship. Y'all made it to the daddy without one. And you can go back without one if you got to. But I don't think you can go back for the loss here and no ACC championship. So Kenton, here's what they say is, NC states defining game in the upcoming football season. Week one, August 29th in Brazil against Virginia.

Do you agree? Actually, I do. I do for the fact that I am lower on NC State than a lot of people are. A lot of people are saying like, oh, this is a dark horse team and all that. I think that offensively, fireworks, offensively, this is the greatest show on turf material. The problem is you need to stop people. some point in time. And don't get me wrong, you could luck up into, we saw it a couple years ago with Wake Forest where they couldn't stop us old, but they lucked up into a few games where they

were the last one with the ball and Hartman did his thing and you're like, oh, huh, I guess they are in the ACC championship, huh? It's possible, but to quote another NC State coach, we'll wait, at that point, your strategy is hope and hope is a bad strategy. So I don't see NC State as a team to where I can say whatever happens in that UVA game, you'll be fine. It's just week zero. You can do whatever you want. No, no, no, no. If you are to achieve some of these goals that, you know, you're to raise that roof,

which Dorn has never been able to do. And again, I give Dorn credit. Top 10 winning his active coach in the NCAA right now, right? Winning his coach in NC State history in terms of total wins. I give him credit for raising the floor at NC State to where the floor is expected, six games or so. That's the floor. Anything below that?

everybody starts looking around, what's going on there, Dave? But the ceiling has not been raised. And so when you're trying to get there, you can no longer take advantage of, oh, I think this is a lesser opponent, so therefore it doesn't matter. We saw it last year with Virginia Tech. You cannot do that at NC State. So I agree, game zero or game one, week zero in Brazil, I'm going to be out there. If you see me out there, that's not me.

If you see me with a bontas time I had, that's not me. If you see me anywhere but at Christ the Redeemer, And ain't kidding. But yeah, that's definitely a game that's going to be pivotal to the season. Yeah, I don't think they drink Maitis there. They drink, uh, Kuiperinas, I think are the drink of choice. Okay, even better, even better. We're doing the knowledge.

We're doing the knowledge here before Donald takes off to the shadow portal. He's teaching us something before he takes off. My entire geographical knowledge is based on foods and adult beverages. That's how I know every country. Oh, that's the Kiperina country is how I know that. Okay. I'm all for it, baby. I'm all for it.

Whatever you got, as long as it. Actually, we can't say that on there. Yeah, I will be there with a caparina in hand. Boom. Huge thank you to Brian Smith from the portal and locked on Seminels. Make sure you follow him at FB Scout underscore Florida. Make sure you follow Kenton at TJF underscore Kenton and at Lockedon Wolfpack. Follow me at Locked on Cains and Alex Dono.

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