Oklahoma once again finds itself as an example of just how chaotic college sports rosters are today, even as the NCAA desperately tries to fix it.
247Sports Oklahoma writer Brody Lusk reported on Friday that OU wing Tae Davis plans to enter the transfer portal. The catch, though, is that Davis isn’t actually eligible to legally enter the portal, at least not right now. It’s a head-scratching situation, but that’s become college sports in 2026.
BREAKING: #Sooners wing Tae Davis, who averaged 13.0 points and 5.6 rebounds last season, plans to enter the transfer portal.
— Brody Lusk (@BrodyLusk247) August 7, 2026
Davis is not currently listed as a plaintiff in any of the pending eligibility lawsuits. As things stand, he cannot legally enter the portal. pic.twitter.com/jZP5tDtc2C
Porter Moser wants to add 5th-year player in midst of chaos but it won't be Tae Davis
Davis and many other athletes from the 2022 recruiting class are trying to take advantage of the mayhem that has ensued just a week after a federal judge ruled athletes in that recruiting class eligible to compete in a fifth season in 2026 if they hadn’t already. The ruling was in response to the NCAA’s new aged-based 5-in-5 rule that gives all athletes five years to compete instead of four, while basically erasing redshirts.
As of now, athletes can only return for a fifth season to the school they were last at unless they had already entered the transfer portal before last Friday in hopes this door would open. However, former Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos is now in another legal battle with the NCAA that if he wins would then make it where these 2022 athletes could transfer for that fifth year in argument that they would have, had they known that was going to be an option.
Are you lost yet? Well, so is everybody else, including the NCAA. And with its track record, the NCAA will likely lose this battle and a whole other can of worms will be opened and leave athletes like Davis scrambling for a new home all of a sudden.
Davis spent just one year at Oklahoma after transferring from Notre Dame. He actually entered the NBA Draft pool last year before deciding he needed another season of college basketball, which now might turn into two.
He started all 37 games he appeared in last season for the Sooners while averaging 13.0 points and 5.6 rebounds. He also tallied 24 steals and seven blocks on the defensive end.
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Davis’ anticipated move indicates that if he utilizes a fifth season that it won’t be at OU again or else he already would be. That could be by his choice or the program’s.
Porter Moser is already trying to take advantage of this chaos and add at least one of these fifth-year players to OU’s roster, but it apparently won’t be Davis.
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