News: On Tuesday, Iowa wide receiver Jacob Bostick declared his plan to use the transfer portal.
Bostick played 58 snaps and made five appearances for Iowa in 2023. Bostick was the lone wide receiver in Iowa’s 2022 recruiting class to get a scholarship. Bostick, who had injury problems during his first two years on college, was expected to be among Iowa’s best wide receivers this fall. Bostick, though, desired to move on and hunt for a new opportunity somewhere.
Kelton Copeland, a former wide receivers coach at Iowa, was spearheading the recruiting of Bostick in the 2022 class.
With spring ball almost finished, Iowa currently has 89 scholarships after Bostick’s departure. By the time fall camp begins, the Hawkeyes must have reduced their scholarship count to 85.iowa hawkeye news
With Bostick leaving, Iowa’s main wide receiver corp looks to be Kaleb Brown, Seth Anderson, Kaden Wetjen, Jarriett Buie, Dayton Howard, and others.
What is the transfer portal: The spring transfer portal will open on Tuesday, April 16 and run for two weeks through Tuesday, April 30. Initially the NCAA set the spring transfer window to open May 1. But the NCAA later amended it to trigger in April. Teams will be able to host recruits on visits throughout the spring window as it’s a contact period. The winter window rules were far stricter in that regard. Fifteen of the 30 days the portal was open in the winter were dead, which means schools are not allowed to make in-person recruiting contact. Unlike when the last portal window opened, all players are now eligible to transfer thanks to a court injunction back in December that cleared the way for multi-time transfers to move on from their schools without having to sit a year-in-residence penalty. Previously underclassmen were only allowed to transfer once without penalty. Now, at least through the 2023-24 academic calendar year, players are allowed to transfer in unlimited fashion and still retain their eligibility for the 2024 season.
