You did not listen closely. He did not tell them to transfer. He said there are some of you in here that are not willing to do what we will expect you to do to be successful. If you are not putting in the effort to be successful and don't believe that you can be successful, then you need to get in the portal. He had already talked about many of them had been skipping team meetings so he knew the background. He told no one individually to transfer but put out a blank statement that if you are not going to do what it takes, then do us both a favor and get out now. Same thing that was said by many new coaches in very bad programs. Go back and listen. His speech was almost identical to the one he gave when he came to JSU.
So do you not think that in the past few years that has happened in a lot of situations. Look at Clemson. They held on to their QB even though he was killing their team until this weekend. There are a lot of QB's over the past few years that have been brought in through portal and everyone told they are the QB of the future. His just happens to be his son and from what I've seen it is a no brainer.