South Carolina football coach Will Muschamp was non-committal when asked to share his feelings about the NCAA transfer portal.

“It’s not going to change, so it really doesn’t matter if I like it or not,” Muschamp told reporters on National Signing Day.

But it certainly is a relevant question for the fourth-year coach, because several of his former players have placed their names in the portal, including defensive lineman Shameik Blackshear, who’s headed to TCU as a graduate transfer.

Among the others: Texas A&M graduate transfer defensive back Nick Harvey. His name was added to the portal less than a year after he arrived to South Carolina. Running back Ty'Son Williams will also pursue his opportunities as a graduate transfer. His college career began at North Carolina before he transferred to South Carolina in 2016.

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The Gamecocks’ fourth-year head coach does, however, have some thoughts on how the NCAA can change its roster management regulations with recruiting.

“I think if you have some guys that enter the portal, it’s obviously going to affect your numbers,” Muschamp said. “I’m, personally, a proponent that we need to go to 30 (scholarships with each signing class). If you look at the number of players that leave for the NFL Draft, then you add that into possible guys transferring out of your program, graduate transfers leaving the program – it’s really affecting the depth of your football team, so you’ve got to be able to replenish and replace those numbers, as far as that’s concerned.

“Keep the (total scholarship) cap at 85, but let’s go to 30 initials, to help you with those numbers, because you’re going to be hard set, especially if you’re taking over a program like we did three years ago.”

It’s an issue that Les Miles is dealing with as the new coach at Kansas, which he went into detail about in this piece from Ross Dellenger of SportsIllustrated.

“There’s always natural attrition within the program – new coaching change, new scheme, new position coach, new coordinator – there’s going to be natural attrition, with that being said,” Muschamp said, “And it’s hard to catch those numbers up if you’re limited to 25 every year. You have the natural attrition you always have every year. You have the medical issues or whatever the case may be. … It’s hard to make your number back up to 85 when you’re sitting at 25 every year.”

Several of Muschamp’s peers were vocal about their portal problems. Stanford coach David Shaw believes called it a “messy” situation.

"The rules are not really hard rules,” Shaw said. “The positions that these young people get put in are really, really difficult. It's become difficult for coaches to manage their rosters."

Penn State coach James Franklin is concerned about the potential for more early attrition.

"We have seen kids that have entered the transfer portal and haven't been on campus for a semester," he said, during an interview with ESPN. "How do you learn to overcome adversity and fight through battles and learn to compete?”

Muschamp, however, noted that not all transfers are initiated with playing time in mind.

“You can’t lump everyone who transfers into one thing. That’s where I get a little disjointed, because a lot of guys want a better opportunity somewhere else,” Muschamp said. “I’ve had guys come to me and want to get closer to home and I think it’s a great reason. They may have had a struggle in their family and they want to get closer to home and they have very good reasons why they want to transfer. I’m fine with that.

“The disturbing thing, a little bit, is there’s over 1,100 players that have entered into the portal and there’s not that many slots out there and that’s a little bit concerning.”